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Microsoft Visual C++
Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) is Microsoft's C and C++ compiler toolchain for Windows, first released in 1992 and one of the three major C++ compilers alongside GCC and Clang.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a family of graphical operating systems by Microsoft, dominant on the desktop and built on the Windows NT kernel since Windows XP unified the lines in 2001.
Microsoft Windows version history
Microsoft Windows version history traces Microsoft's desktop operating system family, from the Windows NT architecture begun in 1989 under David Cutler to Windows 11 and its annual feature updates.
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word, or MS Word, is Microsoft's word processing application, first released for Windows in late 1989 and the de facto standard word processor since the early 1990s.
Microsoft Works
Microsoft Works was a low-cost integrated productivity package from Microsoft combining a word processor, spreadsheet, database, and calendar in one program, sold to home users, students, and small businesses between 1987 and 2009.
Microsoft XNA
Microsoft XNA (XNA Game Studio) was Microsoft's managed C# game framework for Windows, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone, active about 2006-2013 and discontinued in 2014; its game loop, content pipeline, and Microsoft.Xna.Framework API live on through MonoGame, FNA, and CNA.
Microsoft-PNNL AI-accelerated battery materials discovery
A January 2024 Microsoft-PNNL collaboration in which AI screened over 32 million materials to find a new solid-state battery electrolyte, built into a working prototype.
Microsoft–Anthropic Azure partnership
The Microsoft–Anthropic Azure partnership is a 2025 deal under which Anthropic committed to buy $30 billion of Azure compute, with Nvidia and Microsoft investing in Anthropic.
Microsoft–Inflection AI acqui-hire
The Microsoft–Inflection AI acqui-hire was a March 2024 deal in which Microsoft hired most of Inflection AI's staff, including both co-founders, without acquiring the company.
Microsoft–OpenAI partnership and restructuring
The Microsoft–OpenAI partnership is a compute-and-equity arrangement under which Microsoft invested about $13 billion in OpenAI since 2019, restructured in October 2025 and revised again in April 2026.
Microsoft–Quantinuum logical qubit demonstration
The Microsoft–Quantinuum logical qubit demonstration, announced on April 3, 2024, used Microsoft's qubit-virtualization software on Quantinuum's H2 computer to produce logical qubits with error rates up to 800 times lower than physical qubits.
Microsoft–Three Mile Island nuclear deal
The Microsoft–Three Mile Island nuclear deal is a 2024 agreement under which Constellation will restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 and sell Microsoft all its output.
Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein
Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP, MTTP gene) is an ER heterodimer of a 97-kDa subunit and PDI that assembles apoB lipoproteins in liver and intestine; its loss causes abetalipoproteinemia and its inhibitor lomitapide treats HoFH.
Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein large subunit
The microsomal triglyceride transfer protein large subunit (MTTP large subunit, M subunit, or MTPα) is the 97-kDa catalytic subunit of microsomal triglyceride transfer protein, needed to assemble VLDL and chylomicrons.
Microspectrophotometry
Microspectrophotometry (MSP) is an analytical technique coupling an optical microscope to a spectrophotometer to measure spectra of micron-scale samples, used in forensics, biology, and gemology.
Microspectroscopy
Microspectroscopy, also called photoelectron microspectroscopy or photoemission spectromicroscopy, is a family of surface-analysis methods that maps chemical state and electronic structure with nanometer spatial resolution.
Microspheres
Microspheres: spherical particles from ~20 nm to 1000 μm made of polymers, glass, ceramics, or hydrogels; fabricated by emulsion, spray drying, electrospraying, or microfluidics; used for drug delivery, embolization, diagnostics, and tissue engineering.
Microspore culture
Microspore culture is a plant breeding technique in which immature pollen grains are grown in vitro, diverting them to embryogenesis to produce doubled haploid plants homozygous in a single generation.
Microsporidia
Microsporidia: a phylum of unicellular obligate intracellular fungal-related parasites with resistant 1–4 µm spores and a unique ejectable polar tube; over 1,400 species, at least 15 infect humans, most commonly Enterocytozoon bieneusi.
Microsporidian spore structure and invasion mechanism
Microsporidian spores, the resistant infectious stage of microsporidia, are 1 to 12 µm fungal parasite spores that invade host cells by firing a harpoon-like polar tube.
Microsporidiosis
Microsporidiosis is a rare parasitic disease caused by microsporidia, spore-forming parasites related to fungi, causing chronic diarrhea and weight loss that can be severe in immunodeficient people.
Microsporidiosis in animals
Microsporidiosis in animals is the disease caused by spore-forming microsporidia parasites in mammals and birds, usually chronic, notably E. cuniculi in rabbits and E. bieneusi in livestock.
Microsporum
Microsporum is a dermatophyte fungus genus in Arthrodermataceae causing skin and hair ringworm; since 2017 restricted to about three species around M. canis, the cat- and dog-associated agent of tinea capitis.
Microstate
A microstate (ministate) is a sovereign state exceptionally small in population or area, defined variously but commonly by a one-million-inhabitant threshold; about 41 exist, from Vatican City to Pacific island states, facing high public-goods costs and informal politics.
MicroStation
MicroStation is a computer-aided design application for 2D drafting and 3D modeling, developed by Bentley Systems and used principally for infrastructure engineering such as roads, bridges, and rail.
Microstimulation
Microstimulation is an electrophysiological technique delivering weak currents through small electrodes to evoke neural activity, the only clinically viable way to activate neurons on fast time scales.
Microstomia
Microstomia: congenital or acquired abnormal reduction of the oral aperture (narrow mouth), coded ICD-10 Q18.5 and ICD-11 LA31.4. Main causes are burns, caustic ingestion, scleroderma, and lip cancer surgery; treated with splints or commissuroplasty.
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, legally Strategy Inc since 2025, is an American business intelligence software company in Tysons Corner, Virginia, that since 2020 has used its balance sheet to buy bitcoin.
Microstrip
Microstrip is a planar transmission line, a conducting strip above a ground plane on a dielectric substrate, used to guide microwave signals on printed circuit boards.
Microstructure
Microstructure is the structure of a material as seen under a microscope at magnifications above about 25 times, covering grains, grain boundaries, phases, defects, and pores.