- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
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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.
The animated icon from the Help and Support Center that guides users through their first-run experience or Windows Welcome.
Industry:Software
To acquire the characteristics of another class, in object-oriented programming. The inherited characteristics may be enhanced, restricted, or modified.
Industry:Software
A card, plug, or other device that connects pieces of hardware with the computer so that information can be moved from place to place. For example, standardized interfaces such as RS-232-C standard and SCSI enable communications between computers and printers or disks.
Industry:Software
A zero that precedes the most significant (leftmost) digit of a number. One or more leading zeros may be used as fill characters in a field containing numeric input. Leading zeros have no significance in the value of a number.
Industry:Software
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:Software
A Component Object Model (COM) object that implements the ITranslate interface in an in-process COM object.
Industry:Software
