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A software license is a legal instrument that governs the usage and distribution of computer software. [1] Often, such licenses are enforced by implementing in the software a product activation or digital rights management (DRM) mechanism, [2] seeking to prevent unauthorized use of the software by issuing a code sequence that must be entered into the application when prompted or stored in its ...
BonziBuddy (/ ˈ b ɒ n z i ˌ b ʌ d. iː / BON-zee-bud-ee or BON-zih-bud-ee, stylized as BonziBUDDY) was a freeware desktop virtual assistant created by Joe and Jay Bonzi. Upon a user's choice, it would share jokes and facts, manage downloads, sing songs, and talk, among other functions, as it used Microsoft Agent.
The source code for Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) on August 12, 2010. [340] [341] Revenge of the Titans: 2010 2011 Tower Defense, RTS: BSD-3-Clause: Puppy Games Java based game. Source code was released by Puppy Games with the success of the second Humble Indie Bundle. [342]
Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 are the killer apps for the Xbox, [68] and the subsequent series entries became killer apps for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. [69] Many video game and technology critics call Xbox Live a more general killer app for the Xbox. [70] Blue Dragon is a killer app for the Xbox 360 in Japan. [71] Wii Sports is the killer ...
System Locked Pre-installation (SLP), also referred to as OEM Activation, is a product activation procedure for Microsoft Windows used by major OEMs of laptops and pre-built PCs wherein a Windows product key is added and locked to the machine's firmware before mass distribution. SLP product keys cannot be moved to other machines.
A QWERTY keyboard layout with the position of Control, Alt and Delete keys highlighted. Control-Alt-Delete (often abbreviated to Ctrl+Alt+Del and sometimes called the "three-finger salute" or "Security Keys") [1] [2] is a computer keyboard command on IBM PC compatible computers, invoked by pressing the Delete key while holding the Control and Alt keys: Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
Software distributors use executable compression for a variety of reasons, primarily to reduce the secondary storage requirements of their software; as executable compressors are specifically designed to compress executable code, they often achieve better compression ratio than standard data compression facilities such as gzip, zip or bzip2 [citation needed].
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