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Encarta Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was also later available on the World Wide Web via an annual subscription – although later many articles could also be viewed free online with advertisements. By 2008, the complete English version, "Encarta Premium", consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools. Microsoft published similar encyclopedias under the "Encarta" trademark in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese. Localized versions
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Encarta Microsoft Encarta was a digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft Corporation from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM or DVD, it was also later available on the World Wide Web via an annual subscription – although later many articles could also be viewed free online with advertisements. By 2008, the complete English version, "Encarta Premium", consisted of more than 62,000 articles, numerous photos and illustrations, music clips, videos, interactive content, timelines, maps, atlases and homework tools. Microsoft published similar encyclopedias under the "Encarta" trademark in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese. Localized versions
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July 2006, Websters Multimedia, a Bellevue, Washington subsidiary of London-based Websters International Publishers, took over maintenance of "Encarta" from Microsoft. The last version was "Encarta Premium" 2009, released in August 2008. Microsoft announced in April 2009 that it would cease to sell Microsoft Student and all editions of "Encarta Premium" software products worldwide by June 2009, citing changes in the way people seek information, and in the traditional encyclopedia and reference material market, as the key reasons behind the termination. Updates for "Encarta" were offered until October 2009. Additionally, MSN "Encarta" web sites were discontinued around October 31, 2009, with
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contained contents licensed from national sources and more or less content than the full English version. For example, the Dutch version had content from the Dutch "Winkler Prins" encyclopedia. In March 2009, Microsoft announced it was discontinuing both the "Encarta" disc and online versions. The MSN "Encarta" site was closed on October 31, 2009 in all countries except Japan, where it was closed on December 31, 2009. Microsoft continued to operate the "Encarta" online dictionary until 2011. After the successes of "Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia" (1989) and "The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia" (1992), Microsoft initiated "Encarta", under the internal codename "Gandalf",
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the exception of "Encarta Japan" which was discontinued on December 31, 2009. Existing MSN "Encarta Premium" (part of MSN Premium) subscribers were refunded. The demise of "Encarta" was widely attributed to competition from the free and user-generated Wikipedia, which, from small beginnings in 2001, grew to be larger than "Encarta", thanks to popularization by web search services like Google. By the time of the announcement of its closure in April 2009, "Encarta" had about 62,000 articles, most behind a paywall, while the English Wikipedia had over 2.8 million articles in open access. By the time of "Encarta"s closure in December
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in map engine is adapted from its MapPoint software. The hypertext and search engine used by "Encarta" also powered Microsoft Bookshelf. "Encarta" used database technologies to generate much of its multimedia content. For example, "Encarta" generated each zoomable map from a global geographic information system database on demand. When a user used the copy and paste function of Microsoft Windows on "Encarta" on more than five words, "Encarta" automatically appended a copyright boilerplate message after the paste. Early in 2005, Gary Alt announced that the online "Encarta" started to allow users to suggest changes to existing articles. "Encarta"s content was
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accessible using a conversational interface on Windows Live Messenger via the MSN Bot "Encarta Instant Answers". The bot could answer many encyclopedia related questions directly in the IM window. It used short sentences from the "Encarta" website, and sometimes displays full articles in the Internet Explorer-based browser on the right. It also could complete simple mathematical and advanced algebra problems. This service was also available in German, Spanish, French and Japanese. Each summer (in the Northern hemisphere) or winter (in the Southern hemisphere), Microsoft published a new version of "Encarta". However, despite the inclusion of news-related and some supplementary articles,
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via Windows Store. Metro (design language) Microsoft design language (or MDL) is a design language created by Microsoft. This design language is focused on typography and simplified icons, absence of clutter, increased content to chrome ratio ("content before chrome"), and basic geometric shapes. Early examples of MDL principles can be found in "Encarta 95" and MSN 2.0. The design language evolved in Windows Media Center and Zune and was formally introduced as Metro during the unveiling of Windows Phone 7. It has since been incorporated into several of the company's other products, including the Xbox 360 system software, Xbox One,
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Metro (design language) Microsoft design language (or MDL) is a design language created by Microsoft. This design language is focused on typography and simplified icons, absence of clutter, increased content to chrome ratio ("content before chrome"), and basic geometric shapes. Early examples of MDL principles can be found in "Encarta 95" and MSN 2.0. The design language evolved in Windows Media Center and Zune and was formally introduced as Metro during the unveiling of Windows Phone 7. It has since been incorporated into several of the company's other products, including the Xbox 360 system software, Xbox One, Windows 8, Windows
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of the World Wide Web for information browsing, Microsoft recognized the importance of having an engine that supported a multimedia markup language, full text search, and extensibility using software objects. The hypertext display, hyperlinking and search software was created by a team of CD-ROM Division developers in the late 1980s who designed it as a generalized engine for uses as diverse as interactive help, document management systems and as ambitious as a multimedia encyclopedia. "Encarta" was able to use various Microsoft technologies because it was extensible with software components for displaying unique types of multimedia information. For example, a snap
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and held several vice president positions at Microsoft. She began her tenure running Microsoft Canada before being promoted to vice president and revamping Microsoft's Product Support operations. Later she oversaw the Consumer Products Group and served as senior vice president of the Interactive Media Division. In the latter position, Stonesifer was responsible for an $800 million business whose product was interactive entertainment, news, information and service products. In addition, Stonesifer managed Microsoft's investments in new online content and service products, including MSN. The Interactive Media Division produced software titles including Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, Microsoft's "Magic School Bus" Series and Microsoft
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eBay, PriceGrabber and Shopping.com), and the Encarta encyclopedia with various levels of access to information. Since then, MSN.com has remained a popular destination, launching many new services and content sites. MSN's Hotmail and Messenger services were promoted from the MSN.com portal, which provided a central place for all of MSN's content. MSN Search (now Bing), a dedicated search engine, launched in 1999. The single sign-in service for Microsoft's online services, Microsoft Passport (now Microsoft account), also launched across all MSN services in 1999. The MSN.com portal and related group of services under the 'MSN' umbrella remained largely the same in
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Microsoft Student Microsoft Student is a discontinued application from Microsoft designed to help students in schoolwork and homework. It included Encarta, as well as several student-exclusive tools such as additional Microsoft Office templates (called Learning Essentials) and integration with other Microsoft applications, like Microsoft Word. An example of that is data citations, Encarta dictionary and research Encarta features, which are available in a toolbar in Word. The product also included Microsoft Math, language and literature resources (book summaries), and research tools (such as access to an online version of Encarta). Student 2006 was the first version of the product and
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2004 version, presented a user with a list of related topics making them more discoverable. A collection of 32 Discovery Channel videos were also later added. "Encarta 2005" introduced another program called "Encarta Kids" aimed at children to make learning fun. "Encarta" also included a trivia game called "MindMaze" (accessible through Ctrl+Z) in which the player explores a castle by answering questions whose answers can be found in the encyclopedia's articles. There was also a "Geography Quiz" and several other games and quizzes, some quizzes also in "Encarta Kids". For years, "Encarta" came in three primary software editions: Standard, Premium,
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would not become commonplace in web browsers until HTML5 came along several years later. Microsoft began referring to the MSN Explorer software as simply 'MSN' beginning with version 7, an update that was rolled out shortly after the initial release of Windows XP. Microsoft halted development of the free edition of the software in 2002 in favor of a version only available with MSN dial-up and premium subscriptions. Versions of MSN Explorer later than 7.5 require a paid subscription, but it is possible to use another Internet service provider while accessing content provided through the MSN Explorer software. The last
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usually require some sort of user authentication as well. One example of software that features application sharing in this manner is MSN Messenger. 3. The shared content (being an application or entire desktop) can be accessed using a permission based software approach. This technique helps to ensure that the application or desktop being controlled cannot be accessed without direct live approval, helping to eliminate the security risk of taking control of a desktop when the user is not present. Once the applications or documents to be shared and whom they are to be shared with have been determined, there are
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overview of the subject rather than an exhaustive coverage and can only be viewed one at a time. A sidebar could display alternative views, essays, journals or original materials relevant to the topic. For example, when reading about computers, it featured annals since 1967 of the computer industry. "Encarta" also supported closed captioning for the hearing impaired. A separate program, called "Encarta Research Organizer" was included in early versions for gathering and organizing information and constructing a Word document-based report. Later versions included "Encarta Researcher", a browser plugin to organize information from "Encarta" articles and web pages into research projects.
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Anu Garg Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author and speaker. He is also founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 200 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored several books about language-related issues for magazines and newspapers. He was a columnist for MSN Encarta and Kahani magazine. In 1988 Garg received a B.Tech. in Computer Science from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife, Stuti and daughter, Ananya. Garg became a naturalized US citizen in 2008. He is a vegan. In
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effort to better compete in the market. The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search. The new search engine used search tabs that include Web, news, images, music, desktop, local, and Microsoft Encarta. In the roll-over from MSN Search to Windows Live Search, Microsoft stopped using Picsearch as their image search provider and started performing their own image search, fueled by their own internal image search algorithms. On March 21, 2007, Microsoft announced that it would separate its search developments from the Windows
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create a consistent navigation experience across Windows-based devices, such as smart phones, tablet PCs, and those powered by SPOT. Microsoft intended for XEEL to create a consistent navigation experience across hardware devices that equaled the software interface navigation consistency introduced by the mouse scroll wheel. In June 2003, Microsoft unveiled its MSN Direct wireless service developed specifically for SPOT, which would be made available across North America. The company stated that the service would enable the delivery of personalized information on devices and, as an example of this functionality, would allow users to receive messages sent from MSN Messenger or
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service's initial launch Microsoft expanded it to the Windows Phone platform, which later got Azure RemoteApp support. Mobile Browsing allows users to access MSN content and services optimized for their mobile devices. Users can: MSN Mobile client software is preloaded on many newer PDA and phones. Some carriers charge a premium to access this service. The client software usually allows IM and email access; some versions provide access to Spaces and Search as well. This application is available on Android, Windows Phone BlackBerry, and later on iPad. in 2014 Microsoft rebranded Bing's suite of mobile applications to the MSN brand
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Now neither P nor Q can proceed. This is one kind of example where programs may demonstrate incompatibility. Another example of a different kind would be where one software component provides service to another. The incompatibility could be as simple as a change in the order of parameters between the software component requesting service, and the component providing the service. This would be a kind of interface incompatibility. This might be considered a bug, but could be very hard to detect in some systems. Some interface incompatibilities can easily be detected during the build stage, particularly for strongly typed systems,
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the most common form today is "Sukhumi", although "Sokhumi" is increasing in usage and has been adopted by sources including "Encyclopædia Britannica", "MSN Encarta", Esri and Google Maps. Sukhumi is located on a wide bay of the eastern coast of the Black Sea and serves as a port, rail junction and a holiday resort. It is known for its beaches, sanatoriums, mineral-water spas and semitropical climate. Sukhumi is also an important air link for Abkhazia as the Sukhumi Dranda Airport is located nearby the city. Sukhumi contains a number of small-to-medium size hotels serving chiefly the Russian tourists. Sukhumi botanical
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free version of the MSN software also remained available for download for some time. MSN versions 8 and 9 were released in 2002 and 2004 respectively. As of MSN version 9, the software began requiring a user to have a Microsoft account, though depending on the version, it may or may not require an active subscription to other MSN services. The interface also includes many Flash animations. Version 9.5 added compatibility with Windows Vista. Version 9.6 was released in June 2008 and included revisions necessary for a newer mailbox synchronization technology and to replace the MSN Parental Controls menu options
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Presentity The term presentity is a combination of two words - "presence" and "entity". It basically refers to an entity that has presence information associated with it; information such as status, reachability, and willingness to communicate. The term presentity is often used to refer to users who post and update their presence information through some kind of presence applications on their devices. In this case presence information describes availability and willingness of this user to communicate via set of communication services. For example, users of an instant messaging service (such as ICQ or MSN Messenger) are presentities and their presence
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MSN TV. In late 2004, Microsoft introduced MSN TV2. Like the MSN Companion, the "Deuce" was capable of broadband access, and allowed the use of a mouse, but it used the television as an output device, eliminating the need for a computer desk in crowded homes. For inexpensive devices, the cost of licensing the operating system is substantial. For Microsoft, however, it would be actualizing a sunk cost, and when Microsoft released the MSNTV2 model, they adopted standard PC architecture and used Windows CE software with few changes. This allowed a standard PC to be used with relatively few changes,
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standard "Encarta Reference" suite starting with the 2001 version. "Encarta 2002" and onward feature "3D Virtual Tours" of ancient structures, for example the Acropolis; 2D panoramic images of world wonders or major cities; and a virtual flight feature which allows users to fly a virtual airplane over a coarsely generated artificial landscape area. Version "2002" also introduced the ability to install the entire encyclopedia locally to the hard disk drive to prevent frequent swapping of discs. "Encarta 2003" incorporated literature guides and book summaries, foreign language translation dictionaries, a "Homework Center" and "Chart Maker". "Encarta"s "Visual Browser", available since the
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the final Microsoft "Encarta" can be considered the successor of the "Funk and Wagnalls", "Collier", and "New Merit Scholar" encyclopedias. None of these formerly successful encyclopedias remained in print for long after being merged into "Encarta". Microsoft introduced several regional versions of "Encarta" translated into languages other than English. For example, the Brazilian Portuguese version was introduced in 1999 and suspended in 2002. The Spanish version was somewhat smaller than the English one, at 42,000 articles. In 2000, the full "Encarta" content became available on the World Wide Web to subscribers, with a subset available for free to anyone. In
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brand with an impeccable reputation handed down from generation to generation. The management did not believe that a CD-ROM could adequately compete or supplement their business. Microsoft responded by using content from "Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia" to create what is now known as "Encarta". In 1990 the "Britannica's" sales reached an all-time high of $650 million, but "Encarta", released in 1993, soon became a software staple with almost every computer purchase and the "Britannica's" market share plummeted. Britannica countered by offering a CD-ROM version of their product, although it could not generate the print version's $500–600 in sales commissions.
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the service. The MSN 2.0 software was also unstable and would often quit unexpectedly. In addition to MSN 2.0's speed and stability issues, existing MSN subscribers were concerned the transition to MSN 2.0 would break up communities that were established via the MSN Classic message boards and chat rooms. Their concerns were confirmed when Microsoft announced plans to close the entire MSN Classic service. As a result of all these issues, a website called 'The Official msNOT Hate Site' originated as a negative response to the new MSN 2.0 software. The website claimed Microsoft patently ignored feedback from concerned members
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Internet Explorer shell An Internet Explorer shell is any computer program (web browser or otherwise) that uses the Internet Explorer layout engine, known as MSHTML. This engine is closed-source, but Microsoft has exposed an application programming interface (API) that permits the developers to instantiate either MSHTML or a full-fledged chromeless Internet Explorer (known as the WebBrowser control) within the graphical user interface of their software. These applications supplement some of the usual user interface components of Internet Explorer (IE) for browsing, adding features such as popup blocking and tabbed browsing. For example, MSN Explorer can be considered an Internet Explorer
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CD-ROM encyclopedia A CD-ROM encyclopedia is an encyclopedia delivered as reference software on a CD-ROM disc for use on a personal computer. This was the usual way computer users accessed encyclopedic knowledge from early 1990s until the late 1990s. Later DVD discs replaced CD-ROMs and from mid-2000s internet encyclopedias became dominant and replaced disc-based software encyclopedias. Some examples of CD-ROM encyclopedia are Encarta, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and Britannica. CD-ROM encyclopedias were usually a MacOS or Microsoft Windows (3.0, 3.1 or 95/98) application on a CD-ROM disc. The user would execute the encyclopedia's software program to see a menu that allowed
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logos to match current MSN branding in version 11.6. MSN for Mac OS X was a dial-up client interface to Microsoft's pay-for-access online services for Mac users. The software was, in some respects, comparable to the AOL dial-up client given its channel-based interface, built-in chat and instant messaging capabilities, parental controls, and ability to accommodate multiple screen names. It used the Tasman layout engine made for the Mac edition of Internet Explorer 5. It was discontinued in March 2005. After the discontinuation of MSN for Mac OS X, Microsoft continued offering its Microsoft Messenger for Mac software, an instant messaging-only
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MSN QnA MSN QnA (formerly "Live Search QnA" and "Windows Live QnA", codenamed "Answers"), was a question and answer service, part of Microsoft's MSN group of services. It is somewhat similar to Google Answers, but closer in function to Yahoo! Answers. Users could ask questions, tag them according to topic, and gain points and reputation for answering other users' questions. The service was community based; questions are posed to the whole community, rather than just one researcher. At this point there are apparently no plans for any monetary compensation of any kind for answering questions; rather, like with Yahoo! Answers,
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An early pre-release 'beta' of MSN Explorer, labeled version 1.1, was originally included with Windows code name 'Whistler' build 2410, which became Windows XP. Server versions of the beta did not include it. The final release, MSN Explorer version 6.0 (officially numbered to follow the last release of the older MSN 5.0 software), was built into Windows XP with its release in October 2001. Anyone who used Windows XP could choose to use MSN Explorer regardless of their MSN membership status. The user interface for MSN Explorer matched the visual style of Windows XP and utilized relatively responsive animations that
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size of the population of Copts is a continuously disputed matter, frequently for reasons of religious jealousy and animosity. The Coptic population in Egypt is difficult to estimate because researchers are forbidden by Egyptian authorities from asking a survey participant’s religion, but some official estimates state that Coptic Christians represent from 5 to 10 percent or less of a population of over 83 million Egyptians<ref name="U.S.Dept of State/Egypt"></ref><ref name="FCO/Egypt/"></ref><ref name="The world factbook/Egypt/"></ref><ref name="msn encarta/Egypt"></ref> while other independent and Christian sources estimate much higher numbers, up to 23 percent of the population. The Coptic population in Sudan is at about half
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(such as aMSN and Pidgin) allow this to be done without any extra hacks. Nudge (instant messaging) Nudge, also known as buzz, is a feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, for example, by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound. The feature was first introduced in MSN Messenger 7.0, in 2005. XMPP extension protocol XEP-0224 calls this feature "Attention". It is possible to change memory values of Windows Live Messenger to allow nudges to be sent unlimited with no time delay. This can be done manually with a memory editor such as
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to the range claimed by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. According to 2015 figures from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Sunni Muslims make up 90% of the population, with Christian making up the remaining 10%<ref name="The world factbook/Egypt/">.</ref><ref name="U.S.Dept of State/Egypt"></ref><ref name="FCO/Egypt/"></ref><ref name="LOOKLEX Encyclopedia/Egypt/Religions&Peoples"></ref><ref name="msn encarta/Egypt"></ref>. A significant number of Sunni Muslims follow native Sufi orders. There are reportedly close to fifty thousand Ahmadi Muslims in Egypt. Estimates of Egypt's Shia Twelvers and Ismaili community range from 800,000 to about two to three million members. Most Egyptian Christians belong to the native Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an
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under the name 'MSN Dial-up' for those who cannot access high-speed broadband. For several years, MSN was the second largest dial-up ISP in the United States behind longtime leader AOL, but very few people in the U.S. still rely on dial-up. Along with dial-up service, MSN provides its subscribers with an @msn.com email account to use with Outlook.com and security software such as firewall and anti-virus programs. It also offers these extra features as a standalone subscription service for users of broadband Internet access named 'MSN Premium'. The concept for MSN was created by the Advanced Technology Group at Microsoft,
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In April 2013, Microsoft merged this service into Skype network; existing users were able to sign into Skype with their existing accounts and access their contact list. As part of the merger, Skype instant messaging functionality is now running on the backbone of the former Messenger service. Despite multiple name changes to the service and its client software over the years, the Messenger service is often referred to colloquially as "MSN", due to the history of MSN Messenger. The service itself was known as MSN Messenger Service from 1999 to 2001, at which time, Microsoft changed its name to .NET
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Nudge (instant messaging) Nudge, also known as buzz, is a feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, for example, by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound. The feature was first introduced in MSN Messenger 7.0, in 2005. XMPP extension protocol XEP-0224 calls this feature "Attention". It is possible to change memory values of Windows Live Messenger to allow nudges to be sent unlimited with no time delay. This can be done manually with a memory editor such as Cheat Engine or with patching programs. Virtually all instant messaging programs that support MSNP
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("Map Trek") and also supported a "Dynamic Sensor" that provides the latitude, longitude, place name, population and local time for any point on the globe. "Encarta" also generated a visible-light moon atlas with names of major craters and hyperlinks. However, it did not include a planetarium, but instead had a small interactive constellation-only map. In addition to database generated maps, many other illustrative maps in "Encarta" ("Historical Maps") were drawn by artists. Some more advanced maps were interactive: for example, the large African map for Africana could display information such as political boundaries or the distribution of African flora. When
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as one of the bundled book-reading fonts on the iPad before an update in 2011. Verdana Ref is a custom version of Verdana for use with Microsoft Reference. It is used in Microsoft Bookshelf 2000, Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 99, Encarta Virtual Globe 99, Office 2000 Premium, Publisher 2000. MS Reference Sans Serif is a derivative of Verdana Ref with bold and italic fonts. This font family is included with Microsoft Encarta. Tahoma is similar to Verdana but with tighter letter spacing. The Windows Mobile core font Nina is a more condensed version of Tahoma and Verdana. Microsoft licensed rights to
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installations and promoted through Windows and other Microsoft software released at the time. Product support and discussion was offered through the MSN service, as well as information such as news and weather, basic email capabilities, chat rooms, and message boards similar to newsgroups. It also offered access to the Internet via Internet Explorer. There was debate in the media as to whether MSN would be an 'Internet killer', and some companies hedged their bets for the first year, creating content both on MSN and the World Wide Web. However, MSN launched too late to be a real threat to the
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spread beyond its original location and user population. The concept of incorporating numbers into words can also be found in Leet-speak, where numbers are frequently substituted for orthographically similar letters (e.g. "H4CK3D" for "HACKED"). Anne H. Soukhanov, editor of the new "Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary", gives the original meaning of the term as "a telephone number that spells a word or a name" on a telephone dial. Where words have multiple meanings, abbreviations such as these are almost always used to refer to their computing sense; for example, "G11n" for "globalization" refers to software preparedness for global distribution, and not
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MSN China MSN China was a joint venture of the global software corporation Microsoft, part of its MSN service, located in the People's Republic of China. Unlike most other international versions of the MSN portal, which have used the same layout as the United States since 2014, MSN China utilized a unique design and had a separate editorial division. In 2010 MSN China announced a partnership with Sina to integrate each other's services as a reaction towards one of Mainland China's largest internet companies, Tencent. In 2016 Microsoft announced that they would discontinue the MSN China website on June 7
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United States (with 52% of the total reported ). This does not include other instant messaging software related to or developed by AOL, such as ICQ and iChat. Its main competitors during its heyday were ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger. AOL particularly had a rivalry or "chat war" with rival Microsoft starting in 1999. There were several attempts from Microsoft to simultaneously log into their own and AIM's protocol servers. AOL were not happy about this and started blocking MSN Messenger from being able to access AIM. AIM went officially mobile in early 2008 when the application was released
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Software regression A software regression is a software bug that makes a feature stop functioning as intended after a certain event (for example, a system upgrade, system patching or a change to daylight saving time). A software performance regression is a situation where the software still functions correctly, but performs slowly or uses more memory than before. Regressions are often caused by encompassed bug fixes included in software patches. One approach to avoiding this kind of problem is regression testing. A properly designed test plan aims at preventing this possibility before releasing any software. Automated testing and well-written test cases
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flight search pages changed from being powered by Kayak.com to its competitor Skyscanner. Microsoft first offered content from its MSN web portal on mobile devices in the early 2000s, through a service it called "Pocket MSN" (in line with its Pocket PC products of the era) and later renamed "MSN Mobile". The original MSN Mobile software was preloaded on many cell phones and PDAs, and usually provided access to legacy MSN services like blogs (MSN Spaces), email (Hotmail), instant messaging (MSN Messenger), and web search (now called Bing). Some wireless carriers charged a premium to access it. As many former
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Content copied from "Encarta" was appended with a copyright boilerplate message after the selection. The user interface allowed for viewing content with only images, videos, sounds, animations, 360-degree views, virtual tours, charts and tables or only interactives. Encarta was originally available for sale on 1 to 5 CD-ROMs or a DVD. Some new PCs were shipped with an OEM edition of Encarta. "Encarta 2000" and later had "Map Treks", which were tours of geographic features and concepts. Microsoft had a separate product known as "Encarta Africana" which was an encyclopedia of black history and culture. It was integrated into the
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allowing MSNTV2 to more easily and inexpensively keep current. The new box had Adobe Reader, Windows Media Player, and could access Windows computers on a home network to function as a media player. MSNTV2 used a different online service from MSNTV but, like WebTV, still required a subscription. For those with broadband, the fee was US$99 yearly. MSN TV2, the latest version of MSN TV, is an Internet & Media Player that requires no software to buy or install. It includes: an internet media player, a wireless remote, a wireless keyboard, a telephone line T-splitter, a phone cord, an audio/video
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"Encarta" was released as part of the "Reference Suite" in 1998 to 2000, Microsoft bundled "Microsoft Bookshelf" with the other programs ("Encarta" Encyclopedia 98 Deluxe Edition, "Encarta Desk Atlas", "Encarta Virtual Globe 98", "Encarta World English Dictionary" and "Encarta Research Organizer"). "Bookshelf" was discontinued in 2000, and in later "Encarta" editions ("Encarta Suite 2000" and onward), "Bookshelf" was replaced with a dedicated "Encarta Dictionary", a superset of its printed version, "The Encarta World English Dictionary" (later "Encarta Webster's Dictionary"). There was some controversy over the decision, since the dictionary lacks the other books provided in "Bookshelf" which many found to
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different focus. MSN became primarily an online content provider of news, entertainment, and common interest topics through its web portal, MSN.com, while Windows Live provided most of Microsoft's online software and services. In 2012, Microsoft began to phase out the Windows Live brand, referring to each service separately by its individual brand name without any 'Windows' prefix or association. Microsoft launched a completely rewritten and redesigned MSN website, making use of the company's modern design language, on September 30, 2014. The new MSN portal features a new version of the logo that follows a style similar to other current Microsoft
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introduced current and prospective subscribers to the new version of MSN and described the features of the MSN 2.0 software. The MSN Preview was filmed at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle and was formatted as a guided tour of a mock premiere event for the new MSN. It was hosted by a witty and sarcastic character named 'Michael' who welcomed viewers outside of the theatre and then guided them through the theatre to meet several other characters, each of whom represented one of the channels of MSN 2.0's 'On Stage' area, the main platform for interactive multimedia content in MSN
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for MSN / Windows Live. Scott was responsible for inventing the Widget architecture (originally called Gadgets) for Windows Live and helped create start.com, a now defunct customizable portal. Scott also drove the client architecture that ran Windows Live and MSN Services. MSN Hotmail, MSN Spaces, and Windows Live were built around his DHTML-based Gadget/Widget Architecture. Scott also developed sandboxing technology that explored how to create secure mashups. Scott Isaacs Scott Isaacs is a software architect who is best known for the development of Dynamic HTML (DHTML), which is at the core of what is commonly termed Ajax. Scott was a
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with links to the newer Windows Live Family Safety feature. Microsoft began rolling out MSN version 10 in November 2009, following the release of Windows 7. Features included full compatibility with Internet Explorer 8, an integrated spell checker, and the ability to exclude MSN Messenger from the installation. Version 10.2 was released in 2011, including photo email integration with SkyDrive (now OneDrive), the ability to include photos or a photo slideshow with a link so others can download a copy for themselves, and customizable toolbar button groups. Version 10.5 added minor improvements to the MSN software; most notably Microsoft changed
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its user agent to disguise it as a newer web browser in order to bypass 'outdated browser' warning messages from some websites. MSN Explorer 11 is the current version, which was released in April 2014 and offers compatibility with Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 11, adds tabbed browsing, and brings back a 'remember me' feature. The software still included an instant messaging client based on Microsoft's Messenger service, even though it had been phased out in favor of Skype since 2013. Subsequent releases of MSN 11 included updated email functionality to maintain compatibility with Outlook.com in version 11.5, and updated
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MSN's services were reorganized in 2005 and 2006 under a new brand name that Microsoft championed at the time, Windows Live. This move was part of Microsoft's strategy to improve its online offerings using the Windows brand name. The company also overhauled its online software and services due to increasing competition from rivals such as Yahoo! and Google. The new name was introduced one service at a time. The group of Windows Live services used Web 2.0 technology to offer features and functionality through a web browser that were traditionally only available through dedicated software programs. Some of the MSN
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can reduce the likelihood of a regression. A software regression can be of one of three types: Software regression A software regression is a software bug that makes a feature stop functioning as intended after a certain event (for example, a system upgrade, system patching or a change to daylight saving time). A software performance regression is a situation where the software still functions correctly, but performs slowly or uses more memory than before. Regressions are often caused by encompassed bug fixes included in software patches. One approach to avoiding this kind of problem is regression testing. A properly designed
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Microsoft Bookshelf 2000, Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 99, Encarta Virtual Globe 99. MS Reference Serif, a derivative of Georgia Ref with a bold weight and italic, was also included in Microsoft Encarta. However, Microsoft's font manager Bill Hill wrote of it that "I for one never felt totally comfortable with it as a book face. There's something very dark and 'vertical' about the way it feels", and noted that Microsoft had commissioned an alternative, versions of the pre-existing typefaces Berling and Frutiger, for its Microsoft Reader e-book product. Despite this, Georgia is used as one of the bundled book-reading fonts on
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Choice Live" series. Frontman Vic Bondi was originally a protest singer with decidedly leftist views. He went on to form Alloy, and Jones Very after AoF's demise. At the time of AoF's original breakup Bondi was working as a history instructor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Bondi's subsequent day jobs included working on Microsoft's Encarta as managing editor of the Encarta Interactive English Learning edition (Bondi's ironic take on his software career can be found here). Bondi resurfaced with another politically charged band, Report Suspicious Activity in 2006, and was featured prominently in the documentaries "American Hardcore" and "You
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be a useful reference, such as "Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" (replaced with a quotations section in "Encarta" that links to relevant articles and people) and an Internet Directory (although many of the sites listed in offline directories no longer exist). Print versions of "Encarta" dictionaries has also been published, including: Robert McHenry, while Editor-in-Chief of the "Encyclopædia Britannica", criticized "Encarta" for differences in factual content between national versions of "Encarta", accusing Microsoft of "pandering to local prejudices" instead of presenting subjects objectively. An article written by Bill Gates addressed the nature of writing encyclopedias for different regions. Before the emergence
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Limited" in iTunes) lists several applications that are and aren't MSN branded such as the Bing Dictionary (必應詞典), Bing Reader (必讀), Star-Bing (追星必應), Bing Images (必應圖片), Bing Maps (必應地圖), Bing Mind-Reading Robot (必應問答), Chinese MSN, msnNOW, Windows Live Messenger, Xiaoice (微軟小冰) and several others in the Windows Phone Store and on other platforms. MSN China MSN China was a joint venture of the global software corporation Microsoft, part of its MSN service, located in the People's Republic of China. Unlike most other international versions of the MSN portal, which have used the same layout as the United States since 2014,
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Data access layer A data access layer (DAL) in computer software, is a layer of a computer program which provides simplified access to data stored in persistent storage of some kind, such as an entity-relational database. This acronym is prevalently used in Microsoft environments. For example, the DAL might return a reference to an object (in terms of object-oriented programming) complete with its attributes instead of a row of fields from a database table. This allows the client (or user) modules to be created with a higher level of abstraction. This kind of model could be implemented by creating a
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the appearance of the chat window. It came as an install option for Windows Me. This version was followed the next year by version 3.0 (3.0.0080), which was released May 29, 2000. It included file transfers and PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone audio capabilities with Net2Phone and Callserve, two of the larger VoIP providers. Along with the release of Windows XP came version 4.6 of MSN Messenger, on October 23, 2001. It included major changes to the user interface, the ability to group contacts, and support for voice conversations. In this version, the client software was renamed from "MSN Messenger Service" to
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a computer program that is used to debug (and sometimes test or optimize) other programs. GNU Debugger (GDB) is an example of a debugger used in open-source software development. This debugger offers remote debugging, what makes it especially applicable to open-source software development. A memory leak tool or memory debugger is a programming tool for finding memory leaks and buffer overflows. A memory leak is a particular kind of unnecessary memory consumption by a computer program, where the program fails to release memory that is no longer needed. Examples of memory leak detection tools used by Mozilla are the XPCOM
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applications. User-written software tailors systems to meet the user's specific needs. User-written software includes spreadsheet templates, word processor macros, scientific simulations, audio, graphics and animation scripts. Even email filters are a kind of user software. Users create this software themselves and often overlook how important it is. The delineation between system software such as operating systems and application software is not exact, however, and is occasionally the object of controversy. For example, one of the key questions in the "United States v. Microsoft Corp." antitrust trial was whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser was part of its Windows operating system
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MSN (medium spiny neurons) in the striatum to be able to convert administered L-dopa into dopamine. Other kind of gene therapy as a symptomatic approach is the use of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) expression in the subthalamic nucleus. This is a gene enzyme replacement therapy that can be used to increase the efficacy of the pharmacological L-dopa therapy by using AAV vectors. This AAV vectors have been designed to send the AADC coding sequence to the MSN in the striatum to be able to convert administered L-dopa into dopamine. A phase 2 study, published in the journal "Lancet Neurology Parkinson",
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service, MSN Direct did not have universal coverage, but was available in populated parts of the United States and Canada. It was not launched in other areas. Microsoft's latest expansion of MSN Direct was to the Windows Mobile platform. MSN Direct for Windows Mobile took advantage of both cellular and Wi-Fi connections, and allowed Microsoft devices to better compete with the information services available on other mobile phone platforms. There were three versions of the MSN Direct software for Garmin nüvi GPS receivers: Version 1, which was available for all nüvis, allowed users to receive local gas prices, movie times,
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client that required only a free Microsoft account for use. As mentioned previously, Skype replaced Messenger in 2013. For customers with high-speed broadband Internet access, 'MSN Premium' is a subscription service provided by Microsoft that combines a number of different Internet services, along with firewall and anti-virus software provided by McAfee and Spy Sweeper, into a premium version of MSN Explorer. In order to use MSN Premium, users subscribe to the service through get.msn.com or previously by acquiring DSL through one of MSN's partners, such as Verizon or Qwest (now merged with CenturyLink) in the United States or Bell Internet
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"Encarta"s contents had not been changed substantially in its later years. Besides the yearly update, the installed offline copy could be updated over the Internet for a certain period for free depending on the edition. Some articles (usually about 2,000) were updated to reflect important changes or events. When the update period expired, an advertisement prompting to upgrade to the new version was displayed to the user occasionally. The editors of "PC Gamer US" nominated "Microsoft Encarta '95" for their 1994 "Best Educational Product" award, although it lost to the CD-ROM adaptation of "The Way Things Work". Encarta Microsoft Encarta
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Tools of this kind compare two requirement sets according to some expected document structure and standard. Example of paid tool: Binom Tools of this kind allow the merging and update of requirement documents. Example of paid tool: Axiom Tools of this kind allow to trace requirements to other artifacts such as models and source code (forward traceability) or, to previous ones such as business rules and constraints (backwards traceability). Examples of free tools: PolarSys ReqCycle, Reqchecker (works directly on MS Word), OpenETCS tool (it can link ProR or ReqCycle requirements with SysML models by means of its built-in traceability plug-in,
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Encarta name is also used for the abbreviated college dictionary editions. Encarta Webster's Dictionary The Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language (2004) is the second edition of the "Encarta World English Dictionary", published in 1999 (Anne Soukhanov, editor). Slightly larger than a college dictionary, it is similar in appearance and scope to the "American Heritage Dictionary", which Soukhanov previously edited. Created using the Bloomsbury dictionary database, it draws on English as it is spoken in all parts of the English-speaking world. A distinctive feature of the dictionary is the abbreviated definitions, highlighted prior to the full definition, for a
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each customer without losing economies of scale. This effectively turned the product into a service. They also realized that if a service is mass-customized by creating a "performance" for each individual client, that service would be transformed into an "experience". Their book, "The Experience Economy", along with the work of Bernd Schmitt convinced many to see service provision as a form of theatre. This school of thought is sometimes referred to as customer experience management (CEM). Many industries with a high information component are being transformed. For example, Encarta demolished Encyclopædia Britannica (whose sales have plummeted 80% since their peak
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users of modified print materials read them with additional technological help, such as a closed circuit television screen: for this, the pages need to be able to lie flat. Much music is written in portrait format, whereas landscape is preferred for MSN to reduce the number of times the reader has to track back to the beginning of a new system. MSN using music notation software enables dyslexic and partially sighted people who struggle to use the huge variety of formats of stave notation to have their music produced in a consistent layout, according to certain conventions, allowing more fluent
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(CEUs). This is often called maintenance of certification (MOC). Nurses may also hold non-nursing credentials including academic degrees. These are usually omitted unless they are related to the nurse's job. For instance, those with master's degrees usually do not list their bachelor's degrees (only the highest earned degree), and a staff nurse would likely not list an MBA, but a nurse manager might choose to do so. Some nurses who achieve a master's degree (MSN) leave the patient care aspect of nursing, and practice in a more managerial role. An example would be earning an MSN in health care risk
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on demand without player controls) and high interactivity in which, for example, an audience member affects the program being watched. The most obvious example of this would be any kind of real-time voting on the screen, in which audience votes create decisions that are reflected in how the show continues. A return path to the program provider is not necessary to have an interactive program experience. Once a movie is downloaded, for example, controls may all be local. The link was needed to download the program, but texts and software which can be executed locally at the set-top box or
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it happens in televisions, on a private server where users access through a local area network. These searchers are usually software or rich Internet applications with a very specific search options for maximum speed and efficiency when presenting the results. They are typically used for large databases and are therefore highly focused to satisfy the needs of television companies. An example of this type of software would be the Digition Suite, which apart from being a benchmark in this kind of interfaces is very close to us as for the storage and retrieval files system from the Corporació Catalana de
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fix the error, even if she cannot replicate it with the hardware and software she has. Next, suppose John contributes to the repository a package B that uses a package A. Package B passes all the tests and is made available to users. Later, Sally submits an improved version of A, which unfortunately, breaks B. The autochecks make it possible to provide information to John so he can fix the problem. This example exposes both a strength and a weakness in the R contributed-package system: CRAN supports this kind of automated testing of contributed packages, but packages contributed to CRAN
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groups and MSR, under Dr. Gary William Flake. Silverlight 2 released in 2008 with the Deep Zoom feature. This marked the first publicly shipped Seadragon software. Seadragon made further contributions in Silverlight 3 and announced others for Silverlight 4. Photosynth launched the summer of 2008; almost 2 years after its Community Technology Preview, the public can now create and view synths. The Photosynth team officially broke off from Seadragon to join MSN. Seadragon Ajax is a pure JavaScript implementation of the Seadragon technology, released by Microsoft as an open-source library. It is now under active development as OpenSeadragon. The Deep
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that the camfecter controls the software instead of the webcam owner. Webcam emulators have been featured in several sitcoms Softcam A softcam is essentially a software-based camera. Softcams are computer software (that technically do not replace webcams) that allows one to stream or broadcast image, video, and/or audio files through a virtual webcam device. This allows the video stream to be used in place of a normal webcam stream in video conferencing applications like MSN Messenger, NetMeeting, Skype etc. or any other programs that use webcam devices. Some softcam software such as Magic Camera and ManyCam allows the user to
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crop", which enables the user to perform perspective control with the cropping tool, setting each side of the crop to independently determined angles, which can be more intuitive and direct. Other software with mathematical models on how lenses and different types of optical distortions affect the image can correct this by being able to calculate the different characteristics of a lens and re-projecting the image in a number of ways (including non-rectilinear projections). An example of this kind of software is the panorama creation suite Hugin. However these techniques do not enable the recovery of lost spatial resolution in the
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Softcam A softcam is essentially a software-based camera. Softcams are computer software (that technically do not replace webcams) that allows one to stream or broadcast image, video, and/or audio files through a virtual webcam device. This allows the video stream to be used in place of a normal webcam stream in video conferencing applications like MSN Messenger, NetMeeting, Skype etc. or any other programs that use webcam devices. Some softcam software such as Magic Camera and ManyCam allows the user to apply graphics and effects to the video as well, making the software more analogous to a video switcher. In
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2009, the English Wikipedia had over 3.1 million articles. "Encarta"s standard edition included approximately 50,000 articles, with additional images, videos and sounds. The premium editions contained over 62,000 articles and other multimedia content, such as 25,000 pictures and illustrations, over 300 videos and animations, and an interactive atlas with 1.8 million locations. Its articles were integrated with multimedia content and could include links to websites selected by its editors. "Encarta"s articles in general were less lengthy and more summarized than the printed version of "Encyclopædia Britannica" or the online Wikipedia. Like most multimedia encyclopedias, "Encarta"s articles tended to provide an
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until there are tasks in the queue again; when this occurs the sleep time is reset. The pattern is useful on platforms where system resources are scarce, or where you have to pay for system resources like some cloud computing PaaS have. Back-off pattern Back off pattern is a behavioral software design pattern that is used when the software developer wants to reduce the usage of system resources. The pattern typically does some kind of task that is not subject of real-time computing. An example would be the task of sending e-mails, where the end-user waiting several minutes is not
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considers pro-Palestinian bias in formulating its findings, and that he felt CAMERA's campaign was "a kind of McCarthyism, frankly, that bashes us and causes people to question our commitment to doing this story fairly. And it exacerbates the legitimate anxieties of many in the Jewish community about the survival of Israel." In an article originally published in the "Jerusalem Post" and posted on the official website of CAMERA, Andrea Levin, the Executive Director of CAMERA, describes Microsoft's digital multimedia encyclopedia "Encarta" as "a troubling mix of solid information, bias and error." In particular, Levin points to the articles written by
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base in using these tools. For example, in April 1999, they issued a press release regarding the World War II total conversion "Myth II: Recon", saying "This kind of plug-in was exactly what the "Myth II" tools were intended to inspire, and is an excellent sign that "Myth" mapmakers are taking this game world in fascinating new directions." "The Fallen Lords" originally supported both software rendering and 3dfx's Glide hardware acceleration. Soon after it was released, Bungie released a v1.1 upgrade patch, which added support for Rendition's Redline, and 3dfx's Voodoo Rush. "Soulblighter" originally supported software rendering, all 3dfx and
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bundled with new computers. Such dramatic changes brought conventionally restricted knowledge repositories to the fingertips of an almost universal audience in a period of less than 11 years. The opportunities brought by new media enticed new competitors into the reference software market. One of the earliest and most well-known was Microsoft Encarta, first introduced on CD-ROM and then also moving online along with other major reference works. In the dictionaries market, one of the more prolific brands was Merriam-Webster, which released CD-ROM and then online versions of English dictionaries, thesauri and foreign language dictionaries. Since 2010, reference materials have begun
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2000, based on technology acquired from WebTV Networks (later renamed MSN TV). The software was called the Microsoft TV platform (which included the Foundation Edition); it had integrated digital video recorder (DVR) and Internet access capabilities. It was released on October 26, 2000. The software to decode and view digital video programming was derived from WebTV (later called MSN TV). UltimateTV had support for picture-in-picture and could record up to 35 hours of video content. The Internet capabilities were provided by Microsoft TV platform software, which was used for the TV guide. The TV guide could display programming schedule for
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Britannica", were book-based, Microsoft's Encarta, published in 1993, was available on CD-ROM and hyperlinked. The development of the World Wide Web led to many attempts to develop internet encyclopedia projects. An early proposal for a web-based encyclopedia was Interpedia in 1993 by Rick Gates; this project died before generating any encyclopedic content. Free software proponent Richard Stallman described the usefulness of a "Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource" in 1999. His published document "aims to lay out what the free encyclopedia needs to do, what sort of freedoms it needs to give the public, and how we can get started
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Adapter (computing) In computing, adapter is a hardware device or software component that converts transmitted data from one presentation form to another. The data presentation can be, for example, a message sent between objects in an application or a packet sent through a network. In modern personal computer, almost every peripheral device uses an adapter to communicate with system bus, for example: A concept of adapter should not be confused with an expansion card. Although every expansion card typically implements some kind of adapter, many other adapters in a modern PC are built into the motherboard itself. A software component
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nicknames are converted to hexadecimal). IRCX was originally supported on Microsoft Exchange 5.5 (in place of the old Microsoft Chat protocol, which is a binary protocol) and a module was available for Microsoft Exchange 2000. Microsoft has since stopped distributing software that supports IRCX, and morphed its protocol into the protocol used on the MSN Chat network, which was not standardized or openly available for use (however, its usage was very similar to IRCX and therefore most IRCX clients were able to connect to MSN Chat without much modification). MSN Chat closed on 16 October 2006. Microsoft started to put
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Threedegrees threedegrees or 3° (frequently referred to as Three Degrees) was a communication and P2P application produced by Microsoft. It allowed the user to sign in using a .NET Passport and integrated into MSN Messenger. It sorted buddies into groups, and allowed initiating group chats in MSN Messenger, and sharing of pictures, listening to a shared playlist and sending animated winks. threedegrees is now discontinued and the certain features provided by the software have been partially integrated into MSN Messenger 7. threedegrees used to only run under Windows XP Service Packs 1 and 2, with a custom IPv6 stack installed.
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integrity checks such as cyclic redundancy checksums, anti-debugging measures, encryption or obfuscation. Execution inside a virtual machine has become a common anti-tamper method used in recent years for commercial software; it is used for example in StarForce and SecuROM. Some anti-tamper software uses white-box cryptography, so cryptographic keys are not revealed even when cryptographic computations are being observed in complete detail in a debugger. A more recent research trend is tamper-tolerant software, which aims to correct the effects of tampering and allow the program to continue as if unmodified. A simple (and easily defeated) scheme of this kind was used
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and Reference Library (price and features in that order). Beginning with "Encarta 2006", however, when "Websters Multimedia" took over its maintenance, "Encarta" became a feature of Microsoft Student. Although it was possible to purchase only the "Encarta" encyclopedia separately, Microsoft Student bundles together "Encarta Premium" with Microsoft Math (a graphing-calculator program) and Learning Essentials, which provides templates for Microsoft Office. In addition, the Reference Library was discontinued, absorbed into a newer, more comprehensive Premium package. "Encarta"s user interface was shared with Microsoft Student, and was streamlined to reduce clutter with only a Search box which returned relevant results; however it
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as favorites, track connection history, and manage network preferences. It used VPN technology to secure a wireless Internet connection on unsecured networks. The service allowed users to search for free and fee-based wireless networks, showing information such as address, description, available amenities, service providers and location using Live Search Maps. Windows Live Wifi Center was discontinued after the rebranding of Windows Live WiFi Hotspot Locator to MSN WiFi Hotspots. Windows Live WiFi Center requires the following software to be installed prior to installation: MSN WiFi Hotspots MSN WiFi Hotspots, previously "Windows Live WiFi Hotspot Locator", was a website that helped
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by purchasing non-exclusive rights to the "Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia", incorporating it into its first edition in 1993. (Funk & Wagnalls continued to publish revised editions for several years independently of Encarta, but then ceased printing in the late 1990s.) The name "Encarta" was created for Microsoft by an advertising agency and launched in 1993 as a $395 product, although it soon dropped to $99, and was often bundled into the price of a new computer purchase. In the late 1990s, Microsoft added content from "Collier's Encyclopedia" and "New Merit Scholar's Encyclopedia" from Macmillan into "Encarta" after purchasing them. Thus
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Microsoft Arcade and Entertainment Packs to reference titles such as Microsoft Encarta, Bookshelf and Cinemania. Shortly after the release of Microsoft Windows 95, the company began to reduce the price of Microsoft Home products and by the rise of the World Wide Web by 1998, Microsoft began to phase out the line of software. Microsoft Home produced software for all different uses and environments. The products are divided into five categories: Reference & Exploration, Entertainment, Kids, Home Productivity and Sounds, Sights & Gear. The category in which the product was divided is identifiable by the package. Generally, Reference & Exploration
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6.0), Microsoft began to offer content for MSN Internet Access subscribers through a program called MSN Explorer. This program is similar to the early MSN Program Viewer in that it provides access to MSN websites, email, instant messaging, and other content on top of a web browser (an Internet Explorer shell) based on the Trident layout engine. MSN Explorer is similar to AOL Desktop, which also has a built-in email client and provides access to content for AOL members. Upon the transition to MSN Explorer, email for MSN members was integrated into Microsoft's Hotmail architecture and could be accessed from
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(first published in 1967 and now in its second edition), and "Elsevier's Handbooks In Economics" series. Encyclopedias of at least one volume in size exist for most if not all academic disciplines, including, typically, such narrow topics such as bioethics and African-American history. By the late 20th century, encyclopedias were being published on CD-ROMs for use with personal computers. Microsoft's "Encarta", launched in 1993, was a landmark example as it had no printed equivalent. Articles were supplemented with video and audio files as well as numerous high-quality images. After sixteen years, Microsoft discontinued the Encarta line of products in 2009.
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Encarta Webster's Dictionary The Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language (2004) is the second edition of the "Encarta World English Dictionary", published in 1999 (Anne Soukhanov, editor). Slightly larger than a college dictionary, it is similar in appearance and scope to the "American Heritage Dictionary", which Soukhanov previously edited. Created using the Bloomsbury dictionary database, it draws on English as it is spoken in all parts of the English-speaking world. A distinctive feature of the dictionary is the abbreviated definitions, highlighted prior to the full definition, for a quick glance meaning or to identify the sense being sought. The
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