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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-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.
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.
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.
Microsurfacing
Microsurfacing is a preventive maintenance treatment for asphalt pavements, mixing polymer-modified asphalt emulsion, aggregate, and filler on site into a thin layer that fills ruts and seals cracks.
MicroTCA
MicroTCA (µTCA) is a PICMG standard, first ratified in 2006, for building compact, high-performance switched-fabric computer systems around Advanced Mezzanine Cards that plug into a passive backplane.
Microtome
A microtome is an instrument that cuts extremely thin slices, from tens of nanometres to hundreds of micrometres, from a specimen for examination under a microscope, central to histology and diagnostic pathology.
Microtunneling
Microtunneling is a trenchless construction method in which a remotely controlled, laser-guided microtunnel boring machine excavates a bore while product pipe is hydraulically jacked into place behind it.
MicroVAX
The MicroVAX was a family of low-cost VAX computers built by Digital Equipment Corporation from the mid-1980s, implementing the 32-bit VAX architecture in microprocessor chips rather than multi-board designs.
Microwave cavity
A microwave cavity, or cavity resonator, is an enclosed metallic structure that confines electromagnetic fields and resonates at discrete frequencies set by its geometry, used in filters, accelerators, and the cavity magnetron.
Microwave drying
Microwave drying is a dielectric drying method, using 915 or 2,450 MHz microwaves to heat wet materials volumetrically and cut drying times by 25 to 90% versus hot-air drying.
Microwave heating
Microwave heating is a thermal processing method that converts microwave radiation, in the 0.3–300 GHz band, into heat generated throughout a material's volume rather than at its surface.
Microwave landing system
The microwave landing system (MLS) is an ICAO-standardized aviation landing aid that guides aircraft to a runway using microwave scanning beams, developed in the 1970s.
Microwave photonics
Microwave photonics is an interdisciplinary field using light to generate, process, and distribute microwave signals, enabling fiber to carry them with bandwidths above 100 GHz.
Microwave resonator
A microwave resonator is an electromagnetic structure, such as a cavity or transmission line, that stores microwave energy at discrete frequencies, behind filters, sensors, and superconducting qubit readout.
Microwave sintering
Microwave sintering is a ceramic processing method in which compacted powder absorbs microwave radiation directly, heating internally instead of from furnace elements, giving rapid, uniform densification.
Microwave transmission
Microwave transmission, or microwave communication, conveys information by radio waves at 1 to 100 GHz in line-of-sight point-to-point links, once the backbone of long-distance telephone networks.
Microwave-assisted magnetic recording
Microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) is a hard disk drive recording technology that uses a microwave field from a spin-torque oscillator to pack data bits more densely.
Microwave-assisted plastic depolymerization
Microwave-assisted plastic depolymerization is a chemical recycling method that uses microwave irradiation to break waste polymers into monomers, often faster and with less energy than conventional heating.
Microwave-assisted pyrolysis
Microwave-assisted pyrolysis is a thermochemical process that heats biomass or waste plastic with microwaves instead of an external furnace, converting it faster and more efficiently into bio-oil, syngas, and biochar.