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Microsoft Software Updater (earlier Nokia Software Updater and Ovi Suite Software Updater) is a Windows [1] [2] and OS X [3] (though the Mac version is only in Beta) [4] based application launched in 2006, [5] that enables customers to update and recover their mobile device firmware [6] of a S40 or S60 or Lumia device from any Internet enabled access point.
The tool is also available as a standalone download. [1] Since support for Windows 2000 ended on July 13, 2010, Microsoft stopped distributing the tool to Windows 2000 users via Windows Update. The last version of the tool that could run on Windows 2000 was 4.20, released on May 14, 2013.
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InstallShield is a proprietary software tool for creating installers or software packages. InstallShield is primarily used for installing software for Microsoft Windows desktop and server platforms, though it can also be used to manage software applications and packages on a variety of handheld and mobile devices.
It is developed by Microsoft and is most commonly used to intercept Win32 API calls within Windows applications. Detours makes it possible to add debugging instrumentation and to attach arbitrary DLLs to any existing Win32 binary. Detours does not require other software frameworks as a dependency and works on ARM, x86, x64, and IA-64 systems. [2]
Microsoft uses the OneFuzz testing framework to probe Edge, Windows and other products at the company. [1] It replaced the previous Microsoft Security Risk Detection software testing mechanism. [2] The source code was released on September 18, 2020. [1] It is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub. [5]
The SLAM project, which was started in 1999 by Thomas Ball and Sriram Rajamani of Microsoft Research, aimed at verifying software safety properties using model checking techniques. It was implemented in OCaml , and has been used to find many bugs in Windows Device Drivers.
Formerly, on disks formatted using the master boot record (MBR) partition layout, certain software components used hidden sectors of the disk for data storage purposes. For example, the Logical Disk Manager (LDM), on dynamic disks, stores metadata in a 1 MB area at the end of the disk which is not allocated to any partition.