- 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.
A class of computer program in which one or more users interact with the computer as a form of entertainment. Computer games run the gamut from simple alphabet games for toddlers to chess, treasure hunts, war games, and simulations of world events. The games are controlled from a keyboard or with a joystick or other device and are supplied on disks, on CD-ROMs, as game cartridges, on the Internet, or as arcade devices.
Industry:Software
A file created for a particular adapter that provides the operating system with information required to set up a device, such as a list of valid logical configurations for the device, the names of driver files associated with the device, and so on. An .inf file is provided typically on a disk by the device manufacturer or may be included in the operating system.
Industry:Software
A system-level structure that allows processes to be grouped together and managed as a single unit.
Industry:Software
An element that controls the positioning, size and dimensions, and arrangement of other elements contained within them. Layout containers are adaptive in the sense that they can be implemented implicitly, meaning the layout automatically resizes, or auto-sizes, according to the window size.
Industry:Software
An OLE DB rowset exposed by an OLE DB data source that has been defined as a linked server for use in SQL Server distributed queries.
Industry:Software
