- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
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- Company Profile:
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.
The process of compressing a file such that, after being compressed and decompressed, it matches its original format bit for bit. Text, code, and numeric data files must be compressed using a lossless method; such methods can typically reduce a file to 40 percent of its original size.
Industry:Computer
The process of putting values of a continuous set of data into groups so that there are a discrete number of possible states.
Industry:Computer
The users' reaction to a product or service that is perceived as valuable. When a product or service engages users, they want to interact with it and continue doing so.
Industry:Computer
In dual-boot or multiple-boot systems, the configuration settings that specify which system to start and how each system should be started.
Industry:Computer
A device, such as a disk drive, printer, modem, or joystick, that is connected to a computer and is controlled by the computer's microprocessor.
Industry:Computer
An optional file system folder that contains current copies of all files in a project. The shadow folder provides a location from which to view the files without accessing the Visual SourceSafe database and serves as a convenient place to build or compile the project.
Industry:Computer
A Sudoku pattern where the game-generated numbers are symmetrically placed on the board.
Industry:Computer
Memory beyond one megabyte in 80286, 80386, 80486, and Pentium computers.
Industry:Computer
A way of partitioning a table or index by specifying partitions to hold rows with ranges of values from a single partitioning column.
Industry:Computer
