- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
The property of a transaction that controls the degree to which data is isolated for use by one process, and is guarded against interference from other processes.
Industry:Computer
Files that can hold other kinds of files (such as *.ZIP, *.RAR, and *.JAR). Also, Microsoft Office files that use structured storage and the OLE embedded data format (for example, *.DOC, *.XLS, *.PPT, *.SHS) are considered container files.
Industry:Computer
A port in a library that transports tapes to and from library slots.
Industry:Computer
A testing process that supplies structured but invalid input to software application programming interfaces (APIs) and network interfaces to maximize the likelihood of detecting errors that might lead to software vulnerabilities.
Industry:Computer
A logical connection over which data is encapsulated. Typically, both encapsulation and encryption are performed, and the tunnel is a private, secure link between a remote user or host and a private network.
Industry:Computer
An address that uniquely identifies a location on the Internet. A URL is usually preceded by http://, as in http://www.microsoft.com. A URL can contain more detail, such as the name of a page of hypertext, often with the file name extension .html or .htm.
Industry:Computer
Data from a table, form, query, view, or stored procedure, displayed in a row-and-column format.
Industry:Computer
A software program that reduces a file's size for storage on a disk. If a compressed file is too large to fit onto a single disk, the compression utility copies it onto multiple disks.
Industry:Computer
