Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services, also known as Microsoft SLPS, is a software licensing suite that provides developers with the ability...

Microsoft Defender Antivirus (formerly Windows Defender) is an antivirus software component of Microsoft Windows. It was first released as a downloadable...

through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields. Microsoft is the...

Microsoft Office, MS Office, or simply Office, is an office suite and family of client software, server software, and services developed by Microsoft...

The Microsoft Update Catalog is a website created by Microsoft that provides a list of patches, drivers and software for corporations to distribute over...

Microsoft 365 (previously called Office 365) is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft. It...

the software (shrink wrap licensing). License agreements are usually not negotiable. Software patents grant exclusive rights to algorithms, software features...

language models, it was launched in 2023 as Microsoft's primary replacement for the discontinued Cortana. The service was introduced in February 2023 under...

to use the software on one computer, subject to the usual terms and conditions. For businesses, Microsoft offers several types of licensing schemes for...

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a discontinued antivirus software (AV) product that provides protection against different types of malicious software...

platforms, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Microsoft Azure supports many...

The GNU General Public Licenses (GNU GPL or simply GPL) are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users...

Word and soon hired Richard Brodie, a former Xerox intern, who became the primary software engineer. Microsoft announced Multi-Tool Word for Xenix and MS-DOS...

on-premises software and software as a service (SaaS). In the on-premises form, customers purchase client access licenses (CALs); as SaaS, Microsoft charges a monthly...

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified...

part of the Microsoft 365 Business. The product was first introduced in 1992 by former American software company Visio Corporation, and its latest version...

October 2010. Before and during the Microsoft acquisition, Skype withdrew licensing from several third parties producing software and hardware compatible...

A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software. These...

SLPS may refer to: Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services Puerto Suárez International Airport, Bolivia St. Louis Public Schools, Missouri...

the Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office suites of software and has been developed since 1985. Microsoft Excel has the basic features of all spreadsheets...

user interface and software-development tools. It is a member of the Microsoft 365 suite of applications, included in the Professional and higher editions...

antivirus software started to protect against other computer threats. Some products also include protection from malicious URLs, spam, and phishing. The...

end-user license agreement or EULA (/ˈjuːlə/) is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user. The practice of selling licenses to...

This comparison only covers software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following...

publishers. A cross-license for computer software may involve a combination of patent, copyright, and trademark licensing. Copyright protection for fictional...

Microsoft is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports...

IronRuby and IronPython. A free software implementation (now abandoned) named Moonlight, developed by Novell in cooperation with Microsoft, was released...

storage, and integration with both Microsoft and third-party applications and services. Teams gradually replaced earlier Microsoft messaging and collaboration...

Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is a systems management software product developed by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers providing...

free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol, and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell. Samba provides file and print services for...