Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its...
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this component in the Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. Its core component is an eponymous Windows service. The Windows Task Scheduler infrastructure...
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Interix (redirect from Subsystem for Unix-based Applications)
needed] Unix subsystem for Windows NT operating systems. Interix was a component of Windows Services for UNIX, and a superset of the Microsoft POSIX subsystem...
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Kill (command) (redirect from Kill (Unix))
for Windows 98. GNU versions of kill have been ported via Cygwin and run inside of the Unix environment subsystem that Microsoft Windows Services for...
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(archived) to port IE for Windows to Unix. At this time Bristol also had a contract with Microsoft allowing it access to Windows source code from September...
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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Unix daemon)
launched by the operating system at boot time. In Windows 2000 and later versions, Windows services are configured and manually started and stopped using...
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capabilities on the Windows desktop. The POSIX subsystem was replaced in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 by "Windows Services for UNIX", (SFU) which is...
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Outlook.com (redirect from Mail (Microsoft Services))
Solaris for mail services and Apache on FreeBSD for web services, before being partly converted to Microsoft products, using Windows Services for UNIX in the...
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Active Directory (redirect from Microsoft Active Directory)
directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. Windows Server operating systems include it as a set of processes and services. Originally...
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Recognition XML Paper Specification Outline of Microsoft List of Unix daemons List of games included with Windows Shultz, Greg (February 28, 2015). "Control...
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Shell script (redirect from Unix shell scripting)
(which is available in the Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX), Hamilton C shell, UWIN (AT&T Unix for Windows) and others allow Unix shell programs to be run...
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Windows NT 3.1 is the first major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, released on July 27, 1993. It marked the company's...
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PowerShell (redirect from Microsoft Shell)
from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and the associated scripting language. Initially a Windows component only, known as Windows PowerShell...
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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Microsoft Windows that allows the use of a GNU/Linux environment from within Windows, foregoing the overhead...
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Path (computing) (redirect from Unix path)
switches. For example, dir /windows is invalid, but dir "/window" is valid. And cd is more lenient by allowing cd /windows. basename – Unix string manipulation...
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with OS/2. Microsoft Windows eventually overshadowed OS/2 in terms of sales. When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s...
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1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating...
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Sun RPC (category Unix software)
in most Unix-like systems. Microsoft supplied an implementation for Windows in their (now discontinued) Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX product;...
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Script Host 5.7 Windows Installer 4.5 Microsoft NetMeeting 3.02 Windows Sidebar Windows Defender Office 2010 SP2 The Windows Services for UNIX subsystem can...
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Windows Server 2003, codenamed "Whistler Server", is the sixth major version of the Windows NT operating system produced by Microsoft and the first server...
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"What is the Windows Subsystem for Linux?". Microsoft Docs. July 18, 2023. Unix-like Definition, by The Linux Information Project (LINFO) UNIX history –...
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way to the later, Internet-based Microsoft Messenger service for instant messaging or to Windows Messenger and Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN...
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Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years...
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Fork bomb (category Denial-of-service attacks)
saturate such a system's memory. Microsoft Windows operating systems do not have an equivalent functionality to the Unix fork system call; a fork bomb on...
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(1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989), Microsoft Windows (1989), SCO Unix (1990), Handheld PC (1996), Pocket PC (2000), macOS (2001)...
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X Window System for Microsoft Windows, produced by StarNet Communications. It is based on X11R7.4. X- Win32 allows remote display of UNIX windows on...
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introduced with Microsoft Windows 2000 and included with later Windows NT-based operating systems. The term is used more commonly for the automatically...
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Rmdir (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
available in Unix (e.g. macOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), Unix-like (e.g. FreeBSD, Linux), DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows or ReactOS...
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Windows, Windows NT, Mac, and Unix. When Microsoft bought OneTree in 1994, they immediately ceased development on all versions except for Windows. Microsoft...
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Remote Desktop Services (RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allow a...
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