"Abbreviations" [2010] ELECD 469; in Rubini, Luca (ed), "Microsoft on Trial" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010)

Book Title: Microsoft on Trial

Editor(s): Rubini, Luca

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848442443

Section Title: Abbreviations

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Abbreviations
AD analogue-to-digital
API applications programming interface
CD compact disc
CFI Court of First Instance
CIFS Common Internet File System
CODEC coder/decoder or compressor/decompressor
COM component object model
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
DA digital-to-analogue
DAP Directory Access Protocol
DCE distributed computing environment
DCOM distributed component object model
Dfs Distributed file system
DG Comp Directorate General for Competition, European
Commission
DLL dynamic-link library
DOJ US Department of Justice
DRM digital rights management
DVD digital versatile disc
EC European Communities
ECJ European Court of Justice
EEA European Economic Area
EU European Union
FTC US Federal Trade Commission
GUI graphical user interface
HTML HyperText Markup Language
IDL Interface Definition Language
IE Internet Explorer
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IP intellectual property
IPR intellectual property right
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4
IT information technology
JVM Java Virtual Machine
KCC knowledge consistency checker

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KDC key distribution centre
LAN local area network
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LINFO Linux Information Project
MS-DOS Microsoft Disc Operating System
NTLM New Technology Lan Manager
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OEM original equipment manufacturer
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSI open systems interconnection
PAC privilege access certificate
PC personal computer
PDA personal digital assistant
R&D research and development
RAM Random Access Memory
RMI remote message invocation
RNI Raw Native Interface
RPC remote procedure call
SAM security accounts manager
SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SDK software developer kit
SMB Server Message Block
SSO standard ...