- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- 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.
An opaque data structure that defines a protected entity that is implemented and manipulated by the operating system. For example, the system service that reads a file operates on an open file object.
Industry:Computer
The properties of code, such as a digital signature or the zone or site of its origin, that are used by security policy to grant permissions to code.
Industry:Computer
A value that follows a format of 4 channels--including an alpha channel--and is composed in the following format: #AARRGGBB. Hex is commonly used for Web and screen design as many browsers render colors based upon hex values.
Industry:Computer
A malicious computer program designed specifically to replicate itself and spread from computer to computer. A virus may damage hardware, software, or data.
Industry:Computer
A specified series of operations, called steps, performed sequentially by a program to complete an action.
Industry:Computer
The person responsible for setting up and managing local computers, stand-alone servers, member servers, or domain controllers. An administrator performs such duties as assigning user accounts and passwords, establishing security access levels, watching for unauthorized access, allocating storage space, and helping users with networking problems.
Industry:Computer
The contents of a database field displayed inside a database results region, as shown in a Web browser.
Industry:Computer
An individual who is interested in doing business or who currently does business with your organization. A contact may or may not be part of a larger organization (account).
Industry:Computer
The native unit of storage on a particular machine. A word is the largest amount of data that can be handled by the microprocessor in one operation and also, as a rule, is the width of the main data bus. Word sizes of 16 bits and 32 bits are the most common.
Industry:Computer
