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  2. Microsoft Product Activation - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Product Activation is a DRM technology used by Microsoft Corporation in several of its computer software programs, most notably its Windows operating system and its Office productivity suite. The procedure enforces compliance with the program's end-user license agreement by transmitting information about both the product key used to ...

  3. System Locked Pre-installation - Wikipedia

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    System Locked Pre-installation. System Locked Pre-installation, often abbreviated as SLP, also referred to as OEM Activation, is a procedure used by major OEM computer-manufacturers in order to pre-activate Microsoft Windows before mass distribution.

  4. Office Open XML - Wikipedia

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    Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) [5] is a zipped, XML -based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version as ECMA-376. ISO and IEC standardized later versions as ISO/IEC 29500.

  5. Microsoft Office XML formats - Wikipedia

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    The Microsoft Office XML formats are XML -based document formats (or XML schemas) introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007. Microsoft Office XP introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and Office 2003 added an XML-based format for Word documents. These formats were succeeded by Office Open XML (ECMA-376 ...

  6. Sandcastle (software) - Wikipedia

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    Sandcastle is a set of command line programs, configuration files, build components and XSLT files that work together to convert XML -based documentation into help topics that are fit for viewing in a help system. Sandcastle is typically used to automatically generate web-ready, XML-compliant HTML documentation in one of three built-in ...

  7. Portable Application Description - Wikipedia

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    Portable Application Description. PAD or Portable Application Description is a machine-readable document format and specification designed by the Association of Software Professionals and introduced in 1998. The PAD specification is utilized by more than 6,000 [1] software publishers of downloadable applications covering the Windows, OS X, and ...

  8. Product activation - Wikipedia

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    Product activation. Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software. Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function. Activation allows the software.

  9. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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    Windows 10 was succeeded by Windows 11, which was released on October 5, 2021. [29] Windows 10 is the last version of Microsoft Windows that supports 32-bit processors (IA-32 and ARMv7-based). Furthermore, it's the last non-IoT edition to officially support BIOS firmware.