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Notes

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Microsoft Puzzle Hunt

Microsoft Office Document Imaging

Microsoft Office mobile apps are productivity mobile apps developed by Microsoft for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS. The core apps are Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Other Office apps, including Sway, Skype for Business, and SharePoint Newsfeed are available for download from the mobile app store on supported devices and platforms. They are meant to be compatible with desktop versions of the office suite.

Microsoft Office 2011

Paint

Microsoft Mobile Communications

Microsoft Office Visio 2016

Optional

P-Code is a name for several of Microsoft's proprietary intermediate languages. They provided an alternate binary format to machine code. At various times, Microsoft have said p-code is an abbreviation for either packed code or pseudo code.Microsoft p-code was used in Microsoft Visual C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic. Like other p-code implementations, Microsoft p-code enabled a more compact executable at the expense of slower execution.

Microsoft Outlook Groups

Microsoft Media Server

Microsoft Nokia

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007

Microsoft Plus! 98

Microsoft Motion Data

Microsoft Orcas

Microsoft Office Powerpoint

Microsoft Media Player

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition is a version of Microsoft Office for the classic Mac OS, unveiled at Macworld Expo/San Francisco on January 6, 1998. It introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 browser and Outlook Express, an Internet e-mail client and usenet newsgroup reader. Office 98 was re-engineered by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit to satisfy customers' desire for more Mac-like software.It included drag–and-drop installation, self-repairing applications and Quick Thesaurus before such features were available in a version of Office for Windows. It also was the first version to support QuickTime movie. The applications in Microsoft Office 98 were:Microsoft PowerPoint 98Microsoft Word 98Microsoft Excel 98Outlook Express 4.0Internet Explorer 4.0Another rare edition of Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition was published titled: "Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Gold Edition." This version included everything the normal version included plus Microsoft FrontPage Version 1.0 for Macintosh, Microsoft Bookshelf 98 reference software, and Microsoft Encarta 98 Macintosh Deluxe Edition.

Microsoft Press

Microsoft Money

Windows NT 4 and later

Microsoft Office System

yes

Microsoft Points (previously known as Xbox Live Points) were a digital currency issued by Microsoft for use on its Xbox and Zune product lines.

Microsoft Planner is a planning application available on the Microsoft Office 365 platform. The application is available to premium, business and educational subscribers to Office 365.On 6 June 2016 Microsoft made the application available for general release and intends to roll it out over coming weeks to eligible subscription plans.Planner enables users and teams to create plans, assemble and assign tasks, share files, communicate and collaborate with other users, and receive progress updates via various means on the Office 365 platform. Each new plan created in Planner automatically creates a new Office 365 group.

Microsoft Office XP

Microsoft Office 2008

Microsoft Pinyin IME

Microsoft QBASIC

Microsoft Pulse

The Microsoft Open Specification Promise (or OSP), is a promise by Microsoft, published in September 2006, to not assert its patents, in certain conditions, against implementations of a certain list of specifications.The OSP is not a licence, but rather a Covenant Not to Sue. It promises protection but doesn't grant any rights.The OSP is limited to implementations to the extent that they conform to those specifications. This allows for conformance to be partial. So if an implementation follows the specification for some aspects, and deviates in other aspects, then the Convent Not to Sue applies only to the implementation's aspects which follow the specification.

Discontinued

Microsoft Motocross Madness 2

Office 97 and later

Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Microsoft Office 2000

Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) encrypts data in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)-based dial-up connections or Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) virtual private network (VPN) connections. 128-bit key (strong), 56-bit key, and 40-bit key (standard) MPPE encryption schemes are supported. MPPE provides data security for the PPTP connection that is between the VPN client and the VPN server.MPPE alone does not compress or expand data, but the protocol is often used in conjunction with Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression which compresses data across PPP or VPN links.Negotiation of MPPE happens within the Compression Control Protocol (CCP), a subprotocol of PPP. This can lead to incorrect belief that it is a compression protocol.RFC 3078, which defines this protocol, defines RC4 with either 40-bit or 128-bit key lengths as the only encryption options with this protocol.

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Microsoft Office 97

Microsoft OSP

Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Network Monitor 3.x

Microsoft Office Document Image Writer

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

Microsoft Points

Microsoft Photo story

Microsoft Points (previously known as Xbox Live Points) were a digital currency issued by Microsoft for use on its Xbox and Zune product lines. Points could be used to purchase video games and downloadable content from Xbox Live Marketplace, digital content such as music and videos on Zune Marketplace, along with content from Windows Live Gallery.In June 2013, Microsoft announced that it would phase out Microsoft Points by the end of 2013, in favor of using local cash currencies (such as the United States dollar and Euro) on its digital distribution platforms. An Xbox 360 software update implementing this change was released on August 26, 2013; users' existing Microsoft Points were converted into an equivalent amount of local currency for purchases.

Microsoft Power BI

Screen reading program

All Windows versions

Microsoft Office LiveMeeting

Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac

Microsoft Patch Day

Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 is a discontinued vector graphics and raster imaging software package developed by Microsoft.

Microsoft Max was the codename for an incubation effort software application developed by Microsoft. It is an application for creating virtual photograph albums and distributing them online in a peer-to-peer fashion. Features of the Max application included the ability to annotate photos and arrange them in custom layouts, slideshows and a "3D Mantle View," as well as dynamic newspaper-like layouts of RSS feed content.The longer-term goal of Max was to facilitate peer-to-peer communications of many kinds of files, not just photos. On November 1, 2006, Microsoft announced that the Max project was being discontinued, but hinted that some of the functionality may be integrated into other Windows Live applications or services in the future.The product was named Max after a dog belonging to Deana Fuller, one of the project team members.In a news posting at LiveSide, it was reported that Microsoft Max was a preview of a larger project codenamed Project M, which is to be a graphical front end to sharing of all kinds of files, not just pictures, as well as storage and management of the shared files. Built using WPF, it can be used to manage data from various data sources including web, file system, portable devices, e-mail stores as well as share data between disparate data sources. However, it was not made clear whether the project, which was being pursued as a part of Windows Live initiative would reach the market.

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac

Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression (MPPC; described in RFC 2118) is a streaming data compression algorithm based on an implementation of Lempel–Ziv using a sliding window buffer. According to Hifn's IP statement, MPPC is patent-encumbered.Where V.44 or V.42bis operate at layer 1 on the OSI model, MPPC operates on layer 2, giving it a significant advantage in terms of computing resources available to it. The dialup modem's in-built compression (V.44 or V.42bis) can only occur after the data has been serially transmitted to the modem, typically at a maximum rate of 115,200 bit/s. MPPC, as it is controlled by the operating system, can receive as much data as it wishes to compress, before forwarding it on to the modem.The modem's hardware must not delay data too much, while waiting for more to compress in one packet, otherwise an unacceptable latency level will result. It also cannot afford to, as this would require both sizable computing resources (on the scale of a modem) as well as significant buffer RAM. Software compression such as MPPC is free to use the host computer's resources which will typically include a CPU of several hundred Megahertz and several hundred Megabytes of RAM - greater computing power than that of the modem by several orders of magnitude. This allows it to keep a much larger buffer to work on at any one time, and it processes through a given amount of data much faster.The end result is that where V.44 may achieve a maximum of 4:1 compression (230 kbit/s) but is usually limited to 115.2 kbit/s, MPPC is capable of a maximum of 8:1 compression (460 kbit/s). MPPC also, given the far greater computing power at its disposal, is more effective on data than V.44 and achieves higher compression ratios when 8:1 isn't achievable.

Mac OS X 10.4.9 or newer

Microsoft Multipoint

Microsoft Project Server

Multiple

The Microsoft Office XML formats are XML-based document formats (or XML schemas) introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007. Microsoft Office XP introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and Office 2003 added an XML-based format for Word documents.These formats were succeeded by Office Open XML (ECMA-376) in Microsoft Office 2007.

Microsoft Office "12"

Microsoft Passport Network

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 applications shown on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Microsoft Office Project Server is a project management server solution made by Microsoft since 2000. It uses Microsoft SharePoint as its foundation, and supports interface from either Microsoft Project (Professional edition) as a client application or by web browser connecting to its Project Web App (PWA) component.

Microsoft Private Folder

Microsoft Push Notification Service

Service Release 2

Office Live Small Business

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Microsoft Open Specification Promise

Microsoft Project
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Microsoft NTVDM

The Microsoft Office password protection is a security feature to protect Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) documents with a user-provided password. Word and Excel 95 used a 32-bit key protection algorithm, later enhanced up to 40 bits in Excel 97, and then augmented to 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) protection in Office 2007.Currently, the 40-bit key RC4 protection used in Office 97–2003 can typically be bypassed with password hacking software. The 128-bit key AES protection employed in newer Office 2007–2010 remains secure. In fact, the distributed.net RC5 project has been trying to brute force an RC5 72-bit key since 2002, and has not successfully done so yet. Furthermore, even utilizing all known breaks (that speed up brute force attacks by a factor of about four) it would take a typical computer millions of years or longer to break a 128-bit AES key of sufficient length and complexity.

Microsoft Office Entourage

Microsoft Query

Microsoft Office Picture Manager on Windows XP

Microsoft National Broadcasting Company

Microsoft Office FrontPage

Microsoft Office 2007 filename extensions

Microsoft Office 14

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and is comparable to Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows. Office 2011 was followed by Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac released on September 22, 2015, requiring a Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor and OS X Yosemite or later.

Microsoft Office Online

Microsoft Office Visio

or any Intel processor

Microsoft Project 2013 screenshot, showing a blank project

Microsoft Networking

Microsoft Pinpoint is a searchable online directory of software applications and professional services based on Microsoft technologies. All software applications and services listed on the Pinpoint website are provided by independent information technology (IT) companies, including Microsoft Certified Partners, affiliated with the Microsoft Partner Network.Pinpoint was launched in the United States in 2008. As of May 2010, the U.S. site contained more than 7,000 software application listings from more than 30,000 Microsoft-technology independent software vendors (ISVs).Microsoft has announced plans to expand Pinpoint to most major markets worldwide by the end of 2010. A global roll-out of the directory began in 2009, with subsidiary websites launching in the United Kingdom, India, Germany, and the Netherlands, and as of July 2010, subsidiary websites had launched in Canada (French and English), Austria, Switzerland, France, Russia, Australia, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Venezuela.Pinpoint is the successor to Microsoft Solution Finder.

Microsoft Quartz Web Designer

Microsoft Plus Pack

Microsoft Onenote

The Pinpoint Web site is updated daily to feature new and top-rated software applications and related services.

English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese , Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian , Polish, Portuguese , Portuguese , Romanian, Russian, Serbian , Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Overview of the MPNS architecture.

Microsoft Picture Manager

Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition

Microsoft Office 2013

Microsoft Phone

Windows 95 OSR2 and later

Microsoft Popfly (internally codenamed Springfield) was a Web site that allowed users to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using the Microsoft Silverlight rich internet applications runtime and the set of online tools provided. It was discontinued on August 24, 2009.

Proprietary

Microsoft Office Suite

Closed-source

Microsoft Production Studios is the digital media production wing for Microsoft, responsible for the creation, aggregation, distribution, management and measurement of content. It is located in building 127 on Microsoft's main Redmond campus.Microsoft Studios creates media for large corporate events, PR, internal communications, Microsoft products, services and websites, StudioCasts and others for communication experts and marketers at Microsoft.

Microsoft Plus

Microsoft Office Forms Server

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition is a version of Microsoft Office for the classic Mac OS, unveiled at Macworld Expo/San Francisco on January 6, 1998. It introduced the Internet Explorer 4.0 browser and Outlook Express, an Internet e-mail client and usenet newsgroup reader.

Microsoft Office 365 Video

Microsoft QuickBasic

Microsoft Max was the codename for an incubation effort software application developed by Microsoft. It is an application for creating virtual photograph albums and distributing them online in a peer-to-peer fashion.

PowerPC G4 or G5

Microsoft Motocross Madness

Microsoft Netmeeting

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Microsoft PlaysForSure was a certification given by Microsoft to portable devices and content services that had been tested against several hundred compatibility and performance requirements. These requirements include codec support, Digital rights management support, UI responsiveness, device performance, compatibility with Windows Media Player, synchronization performance, and so on.

Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption

Microsoft Mira

Microsoft Push Notification Service (commonly referred to as MPNS) is a mobile service developed by Microsoft. It allows for developers to send push data from servers to Windows Phone applications. The MPNS is natively supported on applications that target the Windows Phone 8 Operating System. Microsoft announced the Windows Notification Service for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 in 2011, effectively replacing the MPNS with this service. The MPNS can be used on applications that are installed on Windows Phone 8.1 if the source code is migrated to a Microsoft Silverlight application, modified to target Windows Phone 8.1, and was already registered to use the MPNS before the upgrade.

Microsoft Public License

Mainstream support ends on April 10, 2018.

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The box for Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition

Microsoft Photo Story

Microsoft Midtown Madness

Microsoft Max

Microsoft Pascal

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer

Microsoft NBC

Microsoft RIFF

Microsoft Multiplan

Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 Express

Unofficially runs on PowerPC G3 Macs and with less RAM.
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Microsoft Office Specialist

Microsoft Office Accounting (formerly Small Business Accounting) is a discontinued accounting software application from Microsoft targeted towards small businesses that had between 1 and 25 employees.The last version, Microsoft Office Accounting 2009, was available in both Express and Professional editions. It included several new features, including tax preparation add-ins, 20 new reports and a Spanish language pack.On 16 November 2009, Microsoft discontinued its distribution of the Microsoft Office Accounting product line in the US and UK. Licensees are to receive mainstream and extended product support from Microsoft or one of its partners through January 2019.

Microsoft Partner Network

Microsoft Narrator

Yes

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of freeware system utilities for power users, developed by Microsoft for its flagship operating system, Windows. PowerToys do not undergo the same rigorous testing that the operating system components do and are published without technical support.

Microsoft Movies and TV

Smartphones and Tablet computers

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Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007

Microsoft PlaysForSure

Through Windows Live ID

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft Pascal was an implementation of the Pascal programming language that was developed by the Microsoft Corporation for compiling programs for running on its MS-DOS operating system and, in later versions, on OS/2 (like many other Microsoft programming tools, albeit they were only capable of generating 16-bit programs for the latter).Microsoft Pascal version 1.0 was released in 1980.

Microsoft Planner is a planning application available on the Microsoft Office 365 platform.

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Microsoft Office Accounting

Microsoft Paperclip

Microsoft Push Notification Service (commonly referred to as MPNS) is a mobile service developed by Microsoft. It allows for developers to send push data from servers to Windows Phone applications. The MPNS is natively supported on applications that target the Windows Phone 8 Operating System. Microsoft announced the Windows Notification Service for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 in 2011, effectively replacing the MPNS with this service.

Microsoft Office Excel

Microsoft Private Folder was a product (withdrawn and discontinued shortly after its first release) created by a Microsoft employee and available as part of their "Windows Genuine Advantage" program. It allowed users to protect private data in a password protected folder called 'My Private Folder' in the user's account.The software runs only on Windows XP and is blocked due to "compatibility reasons" under Windows Vista and later.

Microsoft Plus! for Windows

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Points, Microsoft Points, MSP

Microsoft Office Access

Microsoft Plus 95

Microsoft Office for Mac 2016

Microsoft Messenger service

Microsoft My Phone

Active

Microsoft Pinpoint is a searchable online directory of software applications and professional services based on Microsoft technologies. All software applications and services listed on the Pinpoint website are provided by independent information technology (IT) companies, including Microsoft Certified Partners, affiliated with the Microsoft Partner Network.Pinpoint was launched in the United States in 2008. As of May 2010, the U.S.

Microsoft Pinyin IME (Chinese: 微软拼音输入法; pinyin: wēiruǎn pīnyīn shūrùfǎ) is the pinyin input method implementation developed by Microsoft and Harbin Institute of Technology. It is bundled with Microsoft Windows and Chinese editions of Microsoft Office. Various versions can be downloaded from Microsoft's website with some restrictions.

Microsoft Office 2013 (codenamed Office 15) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016. It includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or a later version of either. A version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices. Mainstream support ends on April 10, 2018. Extended support ends on April 11, 2023.Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11, 2012, when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing. Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on January 29, 2013. This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including OneDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, Yammer and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.Microsoft Office 2013 comes in twelve different editions, including three editions for retail outlets, two editions for volume licensing channel, five subscription-based editions available through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.On February 25, 2014, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released.

Microsoft RDOS

Microsoft Photo Gallery 16.4.3528.331

Microsoft Office Frontpage

Microsoft Powerpoint

The Microsoft Office password protection is a security feature to protect Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) documents with a user-provided password. Word and Excel 95 used a 32-bit key protection algorithm, later enhanced up to 40 bits in Excel 97, and then augmented to 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) protection in Office 2007.Currently, the 40-bit key RC4 protection used in Office 97–2003 can typically be bypassed with password hacking software.

Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer

Microsoft Plus! 95

Microsoft Product Activation is a DRM technology used by Microsoft Corporation in several of its computer software programs, most notably its Windows operating system and its Office productivity suite. The procedure enforces compliance with the program's end-user license agreement by transmitting information about both the product key used to install the program and the user's computer hardware to Microsoft, inhibiting or completely preventing the use of the program until the validity of its license is confirmed.The procedure has been met with significant criticism by many consumers, technical analysts and computer experts, who argue that it is poorly designed, highly inconvenient and ultimately does nothing to prevent software piracy. The process has been successfully circumvented on multiple occasions.

Microsoft Outlook 2000

SpreadsheetML

Microsoft Office for Mac

Microsoft Office SharePoint Workspace

Microsoft Photosynth

Microsoft Office 2013 (codenamed Office 15) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016. It includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or a later version of either.

Microsoft RPC

Microsoft Mobile Reseller Store

Microsoft OfficePublisher

Microsoft Office 15

Microsoft Office X

Microsoft Office 97 running on Windows NT 3.51 Workstation with the Office Assistant present

Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft.

Microsoft Media Services

Microsoft Natal

Microsoft Office Outlook

Microsoft Merchant Server, released in October 1996, was Microsoft's solution for the growing Business-to-Consumer sales business taking place on the Internet. Only one version was shipped, then its technology was folded into Microsoft Site Server 2.0, Commerce Edition.

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Microsoft Office Vista

Microsoft Office Live

Microsoft Office 2007 file extensions

Microsoft Press was the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Press' first introduced books were The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu and Exploring the IBM PC by Peter Norton in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire.

Microsoft Office mobile apps

Microsoft Platform SDK

Private Folder notification area icon

Microsoft Music Central

Microsoft Product Activation

Windows 2000 and later

Microsoft Music Central was a music encyclopedia on CD-ROM produced by Microsoft, similar to their Cinemania product and part of the Microsoft Home range. The software featured a selection of biographical articles from the Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music a spin-off of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music written by Colin Larkin (writer); along with album reviews from Q Magazine.[1] The software also included still images and full-motion video clips and featured online updates.Users had the option of taking an informational 'tour' led by the recorded voice of an artist (or an imitation of their voice, in the case of Little Richard) on their own musical genre. This automatically directed the user to particular articles, and played samples of music.Users could also browse by artist, album, and genre, or search for particular keywords. There was also a gallery feature to view portraits, album covers, video clips and song clips.

Microsoft Office 13

Microsoft OneDrive

Screenshot of Microsoft Narrator in Windows 10

Microsoft Office Live Groove

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007

Microsoft Office password protection

Microsoft Pocket Magnifier

Microsoft PhotoDraw

Microsoft Query by Example

Microsoft Outlook Express

Microsoft Mobile Community

Proprietary commercial software

A screenshot of PhotoDraw 2000 V2 running on Windows 95.

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Microsoft PhotoSynth

Microsoft Office Meeting

Microsoft Moonraker

Microsoft Passport

Microsoft Office RT

微软拼音输入法

Microsoft RDOS 4.01

Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer

Also known as the Microsoft Partner Network or MPN is Microsoft Inc.’s partner network. It was formerly known as the Microsoft Partner Program or MSPP. It is designed to make resources available to a wide variety of technology companies so they can build a business around Microsoft technologies.The program consists of the 640,000 partners, vendors and service providers that build or sell solutions based on Microsoft products.

WordProcessingML

Microsoft Office SharePoint

Microsoft Office 2002

Microsoft Phishing Filter

Microsoft Office website

Microsoft Photopaint

Microsoft PlayForSure

Microsoft Nokia division

Microsoft Office Word

Rich Internet Application editor

512 MB

Microsoft Message Queuing or MSMQ is a message queue implementation developed by Microsoft and deployed in its Windows Server operating systems since Windows NT 4 and Windows 95. Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 also includes this component. In addition to its mainstream server platform support, MSMQ has been incorporated into Microsoft Embedded platforms since 1999 and the release of Windows CE 3.0.

Service Pack 3

Microsoft Morro

Microsoft Office Document Scanning

Microsoft Network Monitor is a deprecated packet analyzer. It enables capturing, viewing, and analyzing network data and deciphering network protocols. It can be used to troubleshoot network problems and applications on the network. Microsoft Network Monitor 1.0 (codenamed Bloodhound) was originally designed and developed by Raymond Patch, a transport protocol and network adapter device driver engineer on the Microsoft LAN Manager development team.Network Monitor has been replaced by Microsoft Message Analyzer (visit project blog for download link).

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Microsoft Plumbago

Microsoft Mobile Devices Sales

The homepage of Office Live Workspace

Microsoft Office Assistant

Extended support ends on

Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger Service, .NET Messenger Service and Windows Live Messenger Service) was an instant messaging and presence system developed by Microsoft in 1999 for use with its MSN Messenger software. It was used by instant messaging clients including Windows 8, Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Messenger for Mac, Outlook.com and Xbox Live. Third-party clients also connected to the service. It communicated using the Microsoft Notification Protocol, a proprietary instant messaging protocol. The service allowed anyone with a Microsoft account to sign in and communicate in real time with other people who were signed in as well.In April 2013, Microsoft merged this service into Skype network; existing users were able to sign into Skype with their existing accounts and access their contact list. As part of the merger, Skype instant messaging functionality is now running on the backbone of the former Messenger service.

Microsoft Powertoys

Microsoft Office Groove

Microsoft Patchday

Microsoft Office Lens

Microsoft Office Live is a discontinued web-based service providing document sharing and website creation tools for consumers and small businesses. Office Live consisted of two services, Office Live Workspace, which was superseded by OneDrive, and Office Live Small Business, which was superseded by Office 365.

The Microsoft Puzzlehunt is a quasi-annual Microsoft tradition started in 1999. It is a puzzlehunt in the same vein as the MIT Mystery Hunt and has some similarity to The Game. The hunt is a team puzzle competition which challenges each team to solve a large number of original puzzles of all different kinds. The answers, when used in conjunction with the metapuzzle, lead to a hidden treasure concealed somewhere on the Microsoft campus. Teams spend the weekend solving original and unique puzzles, usually created by the team that won the last hunt. Puzzles may be anything from traditional puzzles like crosswords, word searches, cryptograms, jigsaw puzzles, word play and logic problems to wandering around campus to find landmarks or puzzles that have to be solved on location. Microsoft Puzzlehunt was founded by Bruce Leban, along with Roy Leban and Gordon Dow.The Microsoft Puzzlehunt takes place over a weekend at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, usually lasting approximately 31 hours from beginning to end. In general, teams are no larger than 12, at least 4 must be current Microsoft employees, and at least 6 must be current or former employees.Microsoft has a rich tradition of puzzle events, including Microsoft Puzzle Safari, College Puzzle Challenge, Microsoft Intern Puzzleday and Microsoft Iron Puzzler, but Microsoft Puzzlehunt remains the "main event" for puzzle solvers in the Microsoft community.

Microsoft PowerPoint viewer

Microsoft Permissive License

Microsoft Office 97 is a major milestone release of Microsoft Office, which includes hundreds of new features and improvements over its predecessor. It introduced "Command Bars," a paradigm in which menus and toolbars were made more similar in capability and visual design. It also featured natural language systems and sophisticated grammar checking. It was published on CD-ROM as well as on a set of 44 3½-inch floppy disks. Released on November 19, 1996, it was the last version to support Windows NT 3.51 on i386 and DEC Alpha computers. (Only Word and Excel were available for the Alpha.) Two service releases (SR-1 and SR-2) were released for Office 97. SR-2 solved the year 2000 problem in Office 97.Microsoft Office 97 is the first version of Office to feature the Office Assistant, a feature designed to assist users by the way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content. The default assistant was "Clippit", nicknamed "Clippy", a paperclip. The office assistant feature was included in Microsoft Office 2000, XP (hidden by default) and 2003 (not installed by default).Office 97 is also the first Microsoft product to include product activation. The Brazilian versions of Office 97 Small Business Edition and Publisher 98 required it.Assisted support options and security updates for Office 97 ended on January 16, 2004. Mainstream hotfix support for Office 97 ended on August 31, 2001. Extended hotfix support ended on February 28, 2002.Two Office 97 applications featured easter eggs: Microsoft Word 97 contained a hidden pinball game and Microsoft Excel contained a hidden flight simulator.

Microsoft Office XML Formats

Microsoft Office Live Communications Server

Microsoft Popfly

Microsoft Message Queue

System requirements

Microsoft Rare

Microsoft Office Open XML

Microsoft Office Live Meeting

Microsoft Mobile Messaging

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Microsoft Office XML formats

Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Pulse (previously branded as Bing Pulse) is an audience response system from Microsoft.Bing Pulse is an audience engagement technology for live feedback from audiences of any size, during any event, on any web-enabled device, and on any browser. Bing Pulse gives viewers the ability to respond every five seconds, and as often as they want, to the content they're hearing and seeing.

Paint on Windows 10 featuring its ribbon in user interface

According to Microsoft, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award is given to "exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others." The awarded are people who "actively share their ... technical expertise with the different technology communities related directly or indirectly to Microsoft".

Microsoft Pulse (previously branded as Bing Pulse) is an audience response system from Microsoft.Bing Pulse is an audience engagement technology for live feedback from audiences of any size, during any event, on any web-enabled device, and on any browser. Bing Pulse gives viewers the ability to respond every five seconds, and as often as they want, to the content they're hearing and seeing. Pulse also gives users the opportunity to have their say in polls and see how others are responding in real time. Bing Pulse was unveiled on February 12, 2013 during Fox’s broadcast of the 2013 State of the Union. Since its inception, Bing Pulse has generated more than 35 million votes from participants across the US. Bing Pulse 2.0 was released in beta on December 3, 2014. Notable changes included a self-service option for users to purchase and use Bing Pulse through the product’s website, and several product improvements, including sharper consumer graphics and experience; a responsive, multi-device design; and more flexibility in visualizations.In December 2015 Microsoft announced that they would drop the Bing branding in favour of the general "Microsoft" brand and would integrate other Microsoft services such as OneNote, Skype, Skype for Business and Azure. Alongside the rebranding Microsoft announced that the service would be focused beyond merely real-time voting.

Microsoft Pinyin

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Microsoft Outlook 2003

Also known as the Microsoft Partner Network or MPN is Microsoft Inc.’s partner network. It was formerly known as the Microsoft Partner Program or MSPP. It is designed to make resources available to a wide variety of technology companies so they can build a business around Microsoft technologies.The program consists of the 640,000 partners, vendors and service providers that build or sell solutions based on Microsoft products. These partners include Systems integrators, Original equipment manufacturers, Independent software vendors, Value-added resellers, Telecommunications companys, Internet hosting services, Marketing agencys, and Resellers.As of 2009, this business ecosystem generated $8.70 in revenue for partner companies for every $1 that Microsoft makes.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer

Microsoft Mike

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Microsoft RDP protocol

The Microsoft Puzzlehunt is a quasi-annual Microsoft tradition started in 1999. It is a puzzlehunt in the same vein as the MIT Mystery Hunt and has some similarity to The Game. The hunt is a team puzzle competition which challenges each team to solve a large number of original puzzles of all different kinds. The answers, when used in conjunction with the metapuzzle, lead to a hidden treasure concealed somewhere on the Microsoft campus.

Microsoft Office for iPad

Microsoft Office Performancepoint server

Microsoft Operating systems

Microsoft Office Live Groove 2007

Microsoft Office for Mac is an office suite of applications and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas and released for Mac OS in 1989, before Office was released for Windows. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Mail. Over the years, Mail was replaced with the freeware Outlook Express in 1998 and returned to paid software with Microsoft Entourage in 2000 before settling on Microsoft Outlook for Mac since 2010. Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language, though the latter feature is unavailable in Office 2008 for Mac. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand. On 10 July 2012, Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide.Office is produced in several versions targeted towards different end-users and computing environments. The original, and most widely used version, is the desktop version, available for Macintosh running classic Mac OS (up to and including 2001) and macOS (in Classic mode, or natively starting with v. X.) operating systems. The most current desktop version is Office 2016 for macOS, released on 9 July 2015 prior to the Windows counterpart's release on 22 September 2015.More recently, Microsoft developed Office Mobile, which are free-to-use versions of Office applications for mobile devices. Microsoft also produces and runs Office Online, a web-based version of core Office apps, which is included as part of a Microsoft account.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2004

Microsoft Office Update

Microsoft Office Performance Point Server

Microsoft Puzzlehunt

Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.Microsoft Project was the company's third Microsoft Windows-based application, and within a couple of years of its introduction it became the dominant PC-based project management software.It is part of the Microsoft Office family but has never been included in any of the Office suites. It is available currently in two editions, Standard and Professional. Microsoft Project's proprietary file format is .mpp.Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server are the cornerstones of the Microsoft Office enterprise project management (EPM) product.

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Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP

Microsoft Press was the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Press' first introduced books were The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu and Exploring the IBM PC by Peter Norton in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire. The publisher has gone on to release books by other recognizable authors such as Charles Petzold, Steve McConnell, Mark Russinovich and Jeffrey Richter.Following a deal signed in 2009, O'Reilly Media became the official distributor of Microsoft Press books. In 2014, the distributor was changed to Pearson. In July 2016, Microsoft Press editorial staff was laid off.

Microsoft PowerToys

Microsoft Office Accounting (formerly Small Business Accounting) is a discontinued accounting software application from Microsoft targeted towards small businesses that had between 1 and 25 employees.The last version, Microsoft Office Accounting 2009, was available in both Express and Professional editions.

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Microsoft Outlook 12

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft Office Communications Server

Microsoft Office Groove 2007

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac (which did not have Intel native code) and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on October 26, 2010, requiring a Mac with an Intel processor and Mac OS version 10.5 or later.

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Microsoft Office v. X

Microsoft Operations Manager

Microsoft P-Code

Microsoft Production Studios

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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011

Microsoft Photostory

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Microsoft Product Activation is a DRM technology used by Microsoft Corporation in several of its computer software programs, most notably its Windows operating system and its Office productivity suite.

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Microsoft Network Monitor is a deprecated packet analyzer. It enables capturing, viewing, and analyzing network data and deciphering network protocols. It can be used to troubleshoot network problems and applications on the network.

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Microsoft Metro

Microsoft Network Monitor

Microsoft Messenger

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Microsoft Office 12

Microsoft Net

Microsoft Operating System/2

Microsoft Pascal Compiler for the 286 XENIX Operating System User's Guide, part number 8511I-330-05, document number 020-092-013, from 1985.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint

Microsoft Mobile Oy

Microsoft Office Remote

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Microsoft Query is a visual method of creating database queries using examples based on a text string, the name of a document or a list of documents. The QBE system converts the user input into a formal database query using Structured Query Language (SQL) on the backend, allowing the user to perform powerful searches without having to explicitly compose them in SQL, and without even needing to know SQL. It is derived from Moshé M. Zloof's original Query by Example (QBE) implemented in the mid-1970s at IBM's Research Centre in Yorktown, New York.In the context of Microsoft Access, QBE is used for introducing students to database querying, and as a user-friendly database management system for small businesses.Microsoft Excel allows results of QBE queries to be embedded in spreadsheets.

Microsoft Money 2007

Microsoft Office 2003 XML formats

Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a software program included with the Microsoft Office suite versions 2003 through 2010. It is no longer included with Office 2013 or later, but may still be obtained in products such as Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, either 32-bit or 64-bit versions, and added to them. Picture Manager is a basic image editing and image management program.

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Microsoft Mouse

Microsoft Media Server (MMS), a Microsoft proprietary network-streaming protocol, serves to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services (previously called NetShow Services). MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP. The MMS default port is UDP/TCP 1755.Microsoft deprecated MMS in favor of RTSP (TCP/UDP port 554) in 2003 with the release of the Windows Media Services 9 Series, but continued to support the MMS for some time in the interest of backward compatibility.

Microsoft Real-Time Compression Interface

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Narrator is a light-duty screen reader utility included in Microsoft Windows. Narrator reads dialog boxes and window controls in a number of the more basic applications for Windows.

Microsoft Office 2013 applications from top left to bottom right: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote which collectively make up the Home and Student edition.

Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger Service, .NET Messenger Service and Windows Live Messenger Service) was an instant messaging and presence system developed by Microsoft in 1999 for use with its MSN Messenger software. It was used by instant messaging clients including Windows 8, Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft Messenger for Mac, Outlook.com and Xbox Live. Third-party clients also connected to the service.

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Microsoft Messenger for Mac

Microsoft Mobile Service

Microsoft Office Clip Organizer

Microsoft Office 2000 running on Windows 95

Microsoft Point

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Microsoft Office 2010 for Mac

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Microsoft Office 97 is a major milestone release of Microsoft Office, which includes hundreds of new features and improvements over its predecessor. It introduced "Command Bars," a paradigm in which menus and toolbars were made more similar in capability and visual design. It also featured natural language systems and sophisticated grammar checking. It was published on CD-ROM as well as on a set of 44 3½-inch floppy disks.

Microsoft OS/2

Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression

Microsoft Query is a visual method of creating database queries using examples based on a text string, the name of a document or a list of documents. The QBE system converts the user input into a formal database query using Structured Query Language (SQL) on the backend, allowing the user to perform powerful searches without having to explicitly compose them in SQL, and without even needing to know SQL. It is derived from Moshé M.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

Microsoft PhotoStory

Microsoft Public Licence

Microsoft Message Queuing

Microsoft Merchant Server

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server

Microsoft Office Infopath

The Microsoft Open Specification Promise (or OSP), is a promise by Microsoft, published in September 2006, to not assert its patents, in certain conditions, against implementations of a certain list of specifications.The OSP is not a licence, but rather a Covenant Not to Sue. It promises protection but doesn't grant any rights.The OSP is limited to implementations to the extent that they conform to those specifications. This allows for conformance to be partial.

Microsoft Rave

Microsoft Media Server (MMS), a Microsoft proprietary network-streaming protocol, serves to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services (previously called NetShow Services). MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP. The MMS default port is UDP/TCP 1755.Microsoft deprecated MMS in favor of RTSP (TCP/UDP port 554) in 2003 with the release of the Windows Media Services 9 Series, but continued to support the MMS for some time in the interest of backward compatibility. Support for the protocol was finally dropped in Windows Media Services 2008.As of 2012 Microsoft still recommends using "mms://" as a "protocol rollover URL". As part of protocol rollover a Windows Media Player version 9, 10, or 11 client opening an "mms://" URL will attempt to connect first with RTSP over UDP and if that fails it will attempt RTSP over TCP. After an RTSP attempt fails, Windows Media Player versions 9 and 10 will attempt MMS over UDP, then MMS over TCP. If using Windows Media Player 11 and an RTSP attempt fails, or if using a previous version of Windows Media Player and MMS fails, a modified version of a HTTP over TCP connection will be attempted. This modified version is referred to by some third parties as MMSH, and by Microsoft as MS-WMSP (Windows Media HTTP Streaming Protocol). The uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme mms has also been proposed to be used for the unrelated Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) protocol.For several years developers of the SDP Multimedia download-tool reverse engineered the MMS protocol and published unofficial documentation for it. However, Microsoft finally released the protocol specification in February 2008.

Microsoft Online

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Microsoft Production Studios is the digital media production wing for Microsoft, responsible for the creation, aggregation, distribution, management and measurement of content. It is located in building 127 on Microsoft's main Redmond campus.Microsoft Studios creates media for large corporate events, PR, internal communications, Microsoft products, services and websites, StudioCasts and others for communication experts and marketers at Microsoft. Microsoft Studios also manages internal and external distribution/webcast hosting for both live and on-demand events and productions. They produce live, taped or live-to-video tape television productions that can be distributed worldwide via satellite and fiber-optics or streamed directly via the intranet/internet.

Microsoft Parchi

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Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is a version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Mac OS X. It supersedes Office 2004 for Mac (which did not have Intel native code) and is the Mac OS X equivalent of Office 2007. Office 2008 was developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit and released on January 15, 2008. Office 2008 was followed by Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 released on October 26, 2010, requiring a Mac with an Intel processor and Mac OS version 10.5 or later. Office 2008 is also the last version to feature Entourage, which was replaced by Outlook in Office 2011.

Microsoft Network

Microsoft Pinpoint

Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac

Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac apps from top left to bottom right: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

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Microsoft Pascal was an implementation of the Pascal programming language that was developed by the Microsoft Corporation for compiling programs for running on its MS-DOS operating system and, in later versions, on OS/2 (like many other Microsoft programming tools, albeit they were only capable of generating 16-bit programs for the latter).Microsoft Pascal version 1.0 was released in 1980. The last version of Microsoft Pascal to be released was version 4.0 in 1988, when Microsoft Pascal was superseded by (the somewhat short-lived) Microsoft QuickPascal, a cheaper development tool that Microsoft produced in order to compete with Borland's Turbo Pascal. Microsoft Pascal was priced at $300, whereas QuickPascal was priced between $25 and $50, and the differences between the two were similar to those between Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System and Microsoft QuickBASIC.Unlike the ISO compliant Microsoft Pascal product, QuickPascal went after the ultimate compatibility with Turbo Pascal. This included not only source-level compatibility, but rather complete binary compatibility with widely available unit libraries for the competitor's compiler. To achieve this level of compatibility, QuickPascal moved away from the common file format (OBJ) and tool set (LINK, LIB) shared by Microsoft's other compilers.Borland's Turbo Pascal V4 had a few quirks, the most notable of which was that it would occasionally ignore one or more lines of source code when said code was compiled. QuickPascal had exactly the same quirks and ignored exactly the same lines.

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Microsoft Mobile Limited

Microsoft Nokia unit

Microsoft Point-to-Point Compression (MPPC; described in RFC 2118) is a streaming data compression algorithm based on an implementation of Lempel–Ziv using a sliding window buffer. According to Hifn's IP statement, MPPC is patent-encumbered.Where V.44 or V.42bis operate at layer 1 on the OSI model, MPPC operates on layer 2, giving it a significant advantage in terms of computing resources available to it.

Microsoft Movie Maker

Microsoft RPC (Microsoft Remote Procedure Call) is a modified version of DCE/RPC. Additions include partial support for UCS-2 (but not Unicode) strings, implicit handles, and complex calculations in the variable-length string and structure paradigms already present in DCE/RPC.

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Microsoft Paint

Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (MPPE) encrypts data in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)-based dial-up connections or Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) virtual private network (VPN) connections. 128-bit key (strong), 56-bit key, and 40-bit key (standard) MPPE encryption schemes are supported.

Microsoft Office InfoPath

Microsoft Office mobile apps are productivity mobile apps developed by Microsoft for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS. The core apps are Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Other Office apps, including Sway, Skype for Business, and SharePoint Newsfeed are available for download from the mobile app store on supported devices and platforms. They are meant to be compatible with desktop versions of the office suite. The suite of apps is free of charge for consumers with devices smaller than 10.1 in (26 cm), but business customers need to purchase an Office 365 subscription to take full advantage of the suite on larger screens.Originally released as Pocket Office on Windows CE v1.0 Handheld PCs in 1996, they were ported to Windows Mobile and Symbian. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel were previously bundled under the Office Hub for Windows Phone free of charge, while OneNote for Windows Phone was a standalone application.

Microsoft Navision

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server is a discontinued project portfolio management application from Microsoft. It was part of its Enterprise Project Management suite which includes Microsoft Office Project Server.

Microsoft Office for Mac is an office suite of applications and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on 1 August 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas and released for Mac OS in 1989, before Office was released for Windows. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Mail.

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According to Microsoft, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award is given to "exceptional, independent community leaders who share their passion, technical expertise, and real-world knowledge of Microsoft products with others." The awarded are people who "actively share their ... technical expertise with the different technology communities related directly or indirectly to Microsoft". An MVP is awarded for contributions over the previous year.The MVP program grew out of the software developer community, as the initial MVPs were some of the most active on the online peer support communities such as Usenet and CompuServe. It has since grown to include other types of products, and other avenues of contribution. Steve Ballmer spoke to a group of Microsoft MVPs about Windows XP and Windows Vista.A posting from Tamar Granor on the Universal Thread web site gives this account of the origin of the MVP program.

Microsoft Music Central was a music encyclopedia on CD-ROM produced by Microsoft, similar to their Cinemania product and part of the Microsoft Home range.

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server

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Narrator is a light-duty screen reader utility included in Microsoft Windows. Narrator reads dialog boxes and window controls in a number of the more basic applications for Windows. Developed by Professor Paul Blenkhorn in 2000, the utility made the Windows operating system more accessible for blind and visually impaired users.While Microsoft recommends that the visually impaired purchase a full-function screen reader for general computer use, Narrator is a useful piece of built-in accessibility software. Narrator is included with every copy of Microsoft Windows, providing a measure of access to Windows without the need to install additional software as long as the computer in use includes a sound card and speakers or headphones. Windows 2000 was the first Microsoft operating system released with some degree of accessibility for the blind built in, permitting a blind person to walk up to any such computer and make some use of it immediately.Narrator can assist a blind person in installing a full-function screen reader, assisting the user until their screen reader of choice is up and running. Because Narrator is a lightweight screen reader that requires minimal "hooks" into the operating system, Narrator can provide speech when a full-function screen reader might be unable to do so, such as during the process of updating hardware drivers.The Windows 2000 version of Narrator uses SAPI 4 and allows the use of other SAPI 4 voices. The Windows XP version uses the newer SAPI 5. However, it only allows the use of the default voice, Microsoft Sam, even if other voices have been installed.In Windows Vista and Windows 7, Narrator has been updated to use SAPI 5.3 and the Microsoft Anna voice for English. In Windows Ultimate and Windows editions for China, the Microsoft Lili voice for Mandarin Chinese is included.In Windows 10, Narrator is available in English (United States, United Kingdom, and India), French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional), Cantonese (Chinese Traditional), Spanish (Spain and Mexico), Polish, Russian, and Portuguese (Brazil).A version of Narrator is also included in all Windows Phones, though with far fewer settings than the Narrator for the desktop. Narrator for Windows Phones currently only works if the phone's language is set to "English (United States)".

Microsoft Monster Truck Madness

Microsoft Office Mobile

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Microsoft Rally

Office Live Workspace

Pinpoint

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