- Industry: Computer
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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.
A form of information processing in which work is performed by separate computers linked through a communications network. Distributed processing is usually categorized as either plain distributed processing or true distributed processing. Plain distributed processing shares the workload among computers that can communicate with one another. True distributed processing has separate computers perform different tasks in such a way that their combined work can contribute to a larger goal. The latter type of processing requires a highly structured environment that allows hardware and software to communicate, share resources, and exchange information freely.
Industry:Software
For Windows CE .NET, an IP protocol stack that supports IPv4 and IPv6 independently or jointly. The DNS name resolution may yield both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Algorithms are used to determine source and destination addresses, thus determining which stack - IPv4 or IPv6 - to use.
Industry:Software
To insert information created in one program, such as a chart, an equation, an image, a video or a font, into another program or Web page.
Industry:Software
A formal offer for products or services, proposed at specific prices and related payment terms.
Industry:Software
On a disk or other direct-access storage device, a continuous block of storage space reserved by the operating system for a particular file or program.
Industry:Software
