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Microsoft Points, introduced in November 2005 as Xbox Live Points, [1] were a digital currency issued by Microsoft for use on its Xbox and Zune product lines. Points could be used to purchase video games and downloadable content from Xbox Live Marketplace, digital content such as music and videos on Zune Marketplace, along with content from Windows Live Gallery.
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.
In October 2011, users of Xbox Live reported having unauthorized access to their Xbox Live accounts, with Microsoft points subsequently being used and/or bought to purchase various in-game items for FIFA 12. Microsoft responded to such incidents by restricting access to the account for 25 days while the fraud team investigated.
In the ASCII standard, the numbers 0-31 and 127 are assigned to control characters, for instance, code point 7 is typed by Ctrl+G. While some (most?) applications would insert a bullet character • (code point 7 on code page 437), some would treat this identical to Ctrl+G which often was a command for the program. [citation needed]
Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption: RFC 2118, RFC 3078 MIKEY: RFC 3830, RFC 4650, RFC 4738, RFC 6043, RFC 6267, RFC 6509 MD5: RFC 1321 Multiprotocol Label Switching: RFC 3031 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions: RFC 2045 RFC 2046 RFC 2047 RFC 2049 Network address translation
For example, Alt+0 247 yields a ÷, corresponding to its code point, but the character produced by Alt+2 47 depends on the OEM code page, such as Code page 437, and may yield a ≈. Also Alt + 0 1 2 8 through Alt + 0 1 5 9 yield the characters assigned in rows 8 and 9 in the CP1252 layout , rather than the C1 control codes that are assigned to ...
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Microsoft Code Page Identifiers (Microsoft's list contains only code pages actively used by normal apps on Windows. See also Torsten Mohrin's list for the full list of supported code pages) Shorter Microsoft list containing only the ANSI and OEM code pages but with links to more detail on each at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-10-23)