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...extremely rare. Microsoft had just released the first version of Bookshelf, a collection of reference materials on CD-ROM in September 1987, and it would be another couple years before the CD-ROM format really took off. The situation in...

In this article: Cd-rom, Tandy, Motorola, Linux, Web-based, Google Docs, DVD, Commodore 64, Atari ST, and AOL

MSCDEX MSCDEX or Microsoft MS-DOS CD-ROM Extensions is a software program produced by Microsoft and included with MS-DOS 6.x and certain versions of Microsoft Windows. It is a driver executable which allows DOS programs to recognize, read,...

In this article: Cd-rom, Microsoft Windows, and Windows 95

...and more recently on the Web via MSN. Today, Microsoft announced that it's discontinuing Encarta later this year, offering symbolic confirmation that Wikipedia is the world's definitive reference guide. Microsoft acknowledges as such in an...

In this article: Wikipedia, Encarta, Cd-rom, and MSN

The Media Control Interface, MCI in short, is an aging high-level API developed by Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia peripherals connected to a Microsoft Windows or OS/2 computer, such as CD-ROM players and audio controllers.

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...in the marketplace than Windows. Some claim that Geoworks faded away because Microsoft threatened to withdraw supply of MS-DOS to hardware manufacturers who bundled Geoworks with their machines. In December 1992 NEC and Sony bundled...

In this article: GEOS, GEOS, GEOS, Cd-rom, AOL, Commodore computer, and Microsoft Windows

...it and attempting to delete it. It also ended up opening a potential security hole on PCs running on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Operating System, making them vulnerable to viruses or other threats. Some who used certain antispyware...

In this article: Sony BMG, Microsoft Corp, Joint venture, Customers, Cd-rom Drives, Bertelsmann AG, Sony Corp., and District of Columbia

Although alternatives exist to the Zone for CD-ROM gameplay, many Microsoft game studios embedded Zone links and functionality into their games, including Angel Studios ' Midtown Madness and Ensemble Studios' Age of Empires game series.

In this article: MSN Games, MSN, Cd-rom, Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft corporation, AOL, Bill Gates, Garry Kasparov, and Reversi

...began later. This was despite such revolutionary features as a bootable CD-ROMs, including a bootable color GUI OS in 1989 on the FM Towns PC, something that predated Microsoft's Windows 95b bootable CD by 7 years. Software today is...

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...series. To celebrate Windows 95's release and to promote the advantages of a native Windows 95 application, Money 95 was available as a free web download from Microsoft's web site between 24 August 1995 and 31 October 1995. Users also...

In this article: Microsoft Money, 3.5" Floppy Disk, Tax, Windows Mobile, Cd-rom, Windows 95, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Home, and Windows NT 3.51