- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
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- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
The process of compressing a file such that, after being compressed and decompressed, it matches its original format bit for bit. Text, code, and numeric data files must be compressed using a lossless method; such methods can typically reduce a file to 40 percent of its original size.
Industry:Computer
A set of components that allow you to track the performance of an application.
Industry:Computer
A bar marked off in units of measure (such as inches) that is displayed across the top of the document window.
Industry:Computer
The flow of data from a source to a single receiver that flows through a channel, as opposed to packets, which may be addressed and routed independently, possibly to multiple recipients.
Industry:Computer
A common Windows control that displays and sets a value from a continuous range of possible values, such as brightness or volume.
Industry:Computer
A type of software bug that can occur in Windows-based applications developed in Visual C++ if the application is not programmed to release a system resource in the source code.
Industry:Computer
A process that measures the probability and consequences of risks and estimates their implications for project objectives.
Industry:Computer
A modifier containing information that describes a class, instance, property, method, or parameter. Qualifiers are defined by the Common Information Model (CIM), by the CIM Object Manager, and by developers.
Industry:Computer
A user account on a specific computer. A local user account is available only on the computer where the local account is defined
Industry:Computer
An image that appears as the background to a document. Generally faded and transparent, so that text can be clearly read over it.
Industry:Computer
