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  2. History of Microsoft - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines; and Microsoft ...

  3. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    Threads have their own thread ID, program counter (PC), a register set, and a stack, but share code, heap data, and other resources with other threads of the same process. [89] [90] Thus, there is less overhead to create a thread than a new process. [91] On single-CPU systems, concurrency is switching between processes.

  4. Category:Free antivirus software - Wikipedia

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    Free software portal; This is a category of articles relating to antivirus software which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy: "free software" or "open-source software".

  5. Application software - Wikipedia

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    In information technology, an application (app), an application program, or application software is a computer program designed to help people perform an activity. Depending on the activity for which it was designed, an application can manipulate text, numbers, audio, graphics, and a combination of these elements.

  6. List of Microsoft software - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. SoftKey - Wikipedia

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    SoftKey International (originally SoftKey Software Products, Inc.) was a software company founded by Kevin O'Leary in 1986 in Toronto, Ontario. [1] It was known as The Learning Company from 1995 to 1999 after acquiring The Learning Company and taking its name.

  8. Portal:Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    Psiphon is a free and open-source Internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies, such as a VPN, SSH, and a Web proxy.

  9. Open-source software - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that this article be merged into Free and open-source software. ( Discuss ) Proposed since May 2024. A screenshot of Manjaro running the Cinnamon desktop environment , Firefox accessing Wikipedia which uses MediaWiki , LibreOffice Writer , Vim , GNOME Calculator , VLC and Nemo file manager, all of which are open-source ...