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Wine (software) Wine[a] is a free and open-source compatibility layer to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Developers can compile Windows applications against WineLib to help port them to Unix-like systems.
CrossOver (software) CrossOver is a Microsoft Windows compatibility layer available for Linux, macOS, and ChromeOS. This compatibility layer enables many Windows -based applications to run on Linux operating systems, macOS, or ChromeOS. CrossOver is developed by CodeWeavers and based on Wine, an open-source Windows compatibility layer.
Microsoft is a developer of personal computer software. It is best known for its Windows operating system, the Internet Explorer and subsequent Microsoft Edge web browsers, the Microsoft Office family of productivity software plus services, and the Visual Studio IDE.
Bliss. Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the ...
Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions before the official release.
Proton (software) Proton is a compatibility layer for Windows games to run on Linux -based operating systems. [1][2] Proton is developed by Valve in cooperation with developers from CodeWeavers. [3] It is a collection of software and libraries combined with a patched version of Wine to improve performance and compatibility with Windows games ...
Contents. Microsoft Windows library files. The Microsoft Windows operating system supports a form of shared libraries known as " dynamic-link libraries ", which are code libraries that can be used by multiple processes while only one copy is loaded into memory. This article provides an overview of the core libraries that are included with every ...
Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions. Appearance. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).