- Industry: Computer
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An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
An association between two tables in which the primary key value of each record in the primary table corresponds to the value in the matching field or fields of many records in the related table.
Industry:Computer
A copy of the contents of a data structure that does not include all its substructures.
Industry:Computer
The first point in time after a milestone (typically code complete) that there are no active bugs accepted by the triage meetings that are older a specified amount of time (typically between 3 hours and 3 days). It is referred to as bounce because bugs checked in can cause regressions and these regressions can cause the number of bugs to "bounce" back up from zero.
Industry:Computer
An information collecting process in which customers visiting a Web site supply profile data about themselves.
Industry:Computer
The person in charge of managing a Windows computer. The administrator is responsible for installing software, assigning passwords, and managing files.
Industry:Computer
The time period during which a product or service will remain functional before the user or customer must license, register, renew, or otherwise (re)activate their product or subscription.
Industry:Computer
A group of files that modify Windows features. Package types include service packs, security updates, language packs, and hotfixes. Examples of packages include LanguagePack, Windows Foundation, and FeaturePack.
Industry:Computer
Layer two of the OSI model. A layer that packages raw bits from the physical layer into frames (logical, structured packets for data). This layer is responsible for transferring frames from one computer to another, without errors. After sending a frame, the data-link layer waits for an acknowledgment from the receiving computer.
Industry:Computer
