Standards Based Development

Microsoft App-V

Microsoft Application Virtualization (aka App-V and prior as Softricity SoftGrid) is an application virtualization and application streaming solution from Microsoft, which they acquired via Softricity in 2006.

Microsoft Application Virtualization

Microsoft Excel

Excel File Formats

Hyper-V

Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor that enables platform virtualization on x86-64 systems. A beta version of Hyper-V was shipped with certain x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008, and a finalized version (automatically updated through Windows Update) was released on June 26, 2008. Hyper-V has since been released in a free stand-alone version, and has been upgraded to Release 2 (R2) status. It was updated in Windows Server 2012

Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 (codenamed Office 12)[4] is a version of Microsoft Office, a family of office suites and productivity software for Windows, developed and published by Microsoft. It was released to volume license customers on November 30, 2006[5] and to retail customers on January 30, 2007, the same respective release dates of Windows Vista. It was preceded by Office 2003 and succeeded by Office 2010.

Office 2007 introduced a new graphical user interface called the Fluent User Interface which uses ribbons and an office start menu instead of menu bars and toolbars.[6] Office 2007 requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows Vista or Windows 7.[7] Office 2007 is the last version of Microsoft Office to support Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Office 2007 includes new applications and server-side tools, including Microsoft Groove, a collaboration and communication suite for smaller businesses, which was originally developed by Groove Networks before being acquired by Microsoft in 2005. Also included is Office SharePoint Server 2007, a major revision to the server platform for Office applications, which supports Excel Services, a client-server architecture for supporting Excel workbooks that are shared in real time between multiple machines, and are also viewable and editable through a web page.

With Microsoft FrontPage discontinued, Microsoft SharePoint Designer, which is aimed towards development of SharePoint portals, becomes part of the Office 2007 family. Its designer-oriented counterpart, Microsoft Expression Web, is targeted for general web development. However, neither application has been included in Office 2007 software suites.

Speech and ink components are removed from Office 2007, since speech recognition and handwriting recognition becoming a part of Windows Vista.[8][9] Handwriting and speech recognition work with Office 2007 only on Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. However, XP users can use an earlier version of Office to use speech recognition.

According to Forrester Research, as of May 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 is used in 81% of enterprises it surveyed (its sample comprising 115 North American and European enterprise and SMB decision makers).

Blogs

Openness@Microsoft

Microsoft Office

Office 365

Office Web Apps - Office 365

Outlook Web App

is a free web-based email service operated by Microsoft. One of the world's first webmail services,[3] it was founded in 1996 as Hotmail (stylized as HoTMaiL) by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in Mountain View, California and headquartered in Sunnyvale.[4][5][6] It was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million and launched as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail as part of the Windows Live suite of products.[1][7] The last version was released in 2011.[8] As of 2011, Hotmail had 360 million users per month.[9] It was available in 36 different languages.[10][11] In 2013, Hotmail was replaced with Outlook.com, which features Microsoft's Metro design language, and closely mimics the interface of Microsoft Outlook. It also features unlimited storage, Ajax, and integration with Calendar, SkyDrive, People and Skype.

Outlook.com

Office Live WorkSpace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Live_Workspace#Office_Live_Workspace

SharePoint

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Microsoft SharePoint Designer

SharePoint Designer

Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft OneNote (formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote) is a computer program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote is available for Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Symbian. A web-based version of OneNote is provided as part of SkyDrive or Office Web Apps and enables users to edit notes via a web browser..

Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Originally developed by Connectix, it was acquired by Microsoft prior to release. Virtual PC is Microsoft's related desktop virtualization software package.

Microsoft PlayReady

Microsoft PlayReady is the Widest Deployed drm Technology in the World.

The development of Microsoft PlayReady drm technology is the culmination of 10 years of innovation and more than $1B invested in content protection technology. To date, Microsoft provides valuable and reliable ip protection to licensees of more than 1000 companies to enable services on a variety of devices.

What makes PlayReady so effective in an ever evolving marketplace is Microsoft’s direct collaboration with pc, Internet, Pay TV, Mobile and CE industry leaders to develop features for high-demand entertainment scenarios.

Microsoft InfoPath

Microsoft InfoPath is a software application for designing, distributing, filling and submitting electronic forms containing structured data. According to one of its inventors, a key architectural design decision was "to adhere to the XML paradigm of separating the data in a document from the formatting." Thus the product features a WYSIWYG form design area in which the various controls (dropdowns, text boxes, etc.) are bound to data fields represented separately as a hierarchical tree view of folders and data fields. A patent filed in 2000 by Adriana Neagu, Jean Paoli and others describes the technology as "authoring XML using DHTML views and XSLT."

Microsoft initially released InfoPath as part of Microsoft Office 2003 family. In summer 2010, Microsoft released a new version that split InfoPath into two applications: InfoPath Designer 2010 is used to create forms and define data structures, and InfoPath Filler 2010 is used to fill out and submit forms.

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word Binary File Format

Binary DOC files often contain more text formatting information (as well as scripts and undo information) than some other document file formats like Rich Text Format and HyperText Markup Language, but are usually less widely compatible.

The DOC files created with Microsoft Word versions differ. Microsoft Word versions up to Word 97 used a different format from Microsoft Word 97 - 2003.

In Microsoft Word 2007 and later, the binary file format was replaced as the default format by the Office Open XML format, though Microsoft Word can still produce DOC files.

Application Support

See also: Comparison of word processors

The DOC format is native to Microsoft Word. Other word processors, such as OpenOffice.org Writer, IBM Lotus Symphony, Apple Pages and AbiWord, can also create and read DOC files, although with some limitations. Command line programs for Unix-like operating systems that can convert files from the DOC format to plain text or other standard formats include the wv library, which itself is used directly by AbiWord.

Specification

Because the DOC file format was a closed specification for many years, inconsistent handling of the format persists and may cause some loss of formatting information when handling the same file with multiple word processing programs. Some specifications for Microsoft Office 97 binary file formats were published in 1997 under a restrictive license, but these specifications were removed from online download in 1999. Specifications of later versions of Microsoft Office binary file formats were not publicly available. The DOC format specification was available from Microsoft on request since 2006[10] under restrictive RAND-Z terms until February 2008. Sun Microsystems and OpenOffice.org reverse engineered the file format.[11] Microsoft released a .DOC format specification[12] under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.[13][14] However, this specification does not describe all of the features used by DOC format and reverse engineered work remains necessary.

Other File Formats

Some historical documentations may use the DOC filename extension for plain-text file format. The DOC filename extension was also used in historical versions of WordPerfect for its proprietary format.

Some software applications use the name "DOC" in combination with other words (such as the name of software manufacturer) for different file formats. As an example, on the Palm OS, DOC is shorthand for PalmDoc, a completely unrelated format (commonly using PDB filename extension) used to encode text files such as ebooks.

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Visio (/ˈvɪzi.oʊ/ viz-zee-oh) (formerly Microsoft Office Visio) is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. The product was first introduced in 1992, made by the Shapeware corporation. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2000.

Visio Native File Formats

• VSD
• Drawing
• VSS
• Stencil
• VST
• Template
• VSW
• Web drawing
• VDX
• XML drawing (Discontinued)
• VSX
• XML stencil (Discontinued)
• VTX
• XML template (Discontinued)
• VSDX
• OPC/XML drawing
• VSDM
• OPC/XML drawing, macro-enabled
• VSSX
• OPC/XML stencil
• VSSM
• OPC/XML stencil, macro-enabled
• VSTX
• OPC/XML template
• VSTM
• OPC/XML template, macro-enabled
• VSL
• Add-on

Visio 2010 and earlier read and write drawings in VSD or VDX file formats. VSD is the proprietary binary file format used in all of the previous version of Visio. VDX is a well-documented XML Schema-based ("DatadiagramML") format. Visio 2013 drops support for writing VDX files in favor of the new VSDX and VSDM file formats. Created based on Open Packaging Conventions (OPC) standard (ISO 29500, Part 2), a VSDX or VSDM file consists of a group of XML files archived inside a Zip file. The only difference between VSDX and VSDM is that VSDM files may contain macros. Since these files are susceptible to macro virus infection, the program enforces strict security on them.

While VSD files use LZW-like lossless compression, VDX is not compressed. Hence, a VDX file is typically 3 to 5 times larger.[citation needed] VSDX and VSDM files use the same compression as Zip files. Visio 2010 and earlier use VSD by default. Visio 2013 default is VSDX.

Microsoft Surface

Visual Studio

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