Acronyms for PC and Server Technologies

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A

A/V - audio/video

A2DP - advanced audio distribution profile

AAF - advanced authoring format ACalternating current

AC-3 - Advanced Cluster Computer Consortium

ACCM - asynchronous control character map

ACE - access control entry

ACK - acknowledgment

ACL - access control list

ACM - Audio Compression Manager

ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ACPM - Active State Power Management


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ACR - advanced communication riser

AD - Active Directory

ADC - analog-to-digital converter

ADF - automatic document feeder

ADS - Automated Deployment Services

AEC - acoustic echo cancellation

AES - Advanced Encryption Standard

AGC - automatic gain control

AGP - accelerated graphics port

AHCI - Advanced Host Controller Interface

ALPC - adaptive link power control

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices

AMR - audio modem riser


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AP - access point; adjunct processor

APC - asynchronous procedure call

API - application programming interface

APIC - advanced programmable interrupt controller

APS - Advanced Photo System

ARIB - Association of Radio Industries and Businesses

ARP - Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASL - ACPI source language

AT - Advanced Technology

ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment

ATAPI - ATA Packet Interface


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ATC - address translation control

ATIS - Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions

ATM - asynchronous transfer mode

ATSC - Advanced Television Systems Committee

AV/C - audio/video control

AVCTP - Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol

AVDTP - Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol

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B

BAR - base address register

BCB - buffer control block

BCD - binary coded decimal; boot configuration data

BDA - broadcast driver architecture

BE - best effort


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BIOS - basic input/output system

BLOB - binary large object

BMC - Baseboard Management Controller

BOT - bulk-only transport

bpp - bits per pixel

bps - bits per second

BRM - big real mode

BSP - bit-slice processor

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C

CA - conditional access

CBLID - cable ID

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D

DIFxAPP - Driver Install Framework for Applications

DIRQL - device interrupt request level


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DLL - dynamic link library

DLNA - Digital Living Network Alliance

DLP - digital - direct memory access

DMO - DirectX media object

DNS - Domain Name Service

DO - device object

DOCSIS - Data-over-Cable Service Interface Specification

DOS - denial of service

DPC - deferred procedure call; display position counter

DPI - dots per inch

DPInst - Driver Package Installer

DPLBASE - DMA position lower base address


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DPPE - device power policy engine

DPUBASE - DMA position upper base address

DPWS - Devices Profile for Web Services

DRM - digital rights management

DRS - Driver Reliability Signature

DSCP - differential services control point

DSDT - differentiated system description table

DSF - device simulation framework

DSL - digital subscriber line

DSM - data source manager; device-specific module

DSP - digital signal processor

DSS - digital satellite system

DSTN - double-layer supertwisted nematic


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DTE - data terminal equipment

DTM - driver test manager

DTV - digital television

DUN - dial-up networking

DV - digital video

DVB - digital video broadcasting

DVD - digital video disc

DVI - Digital Video Interface

DVR - digital video recorder

DWA - device wire adapter

DWG - Device Working Group

DXGI - DirectX Graphics Infrastructure


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E - EDID - enhanced extended display identification data

EFI - Extensible Firmware Interface

EHCI - Enhanced Host Controller Interface

EIA - Electronic Industries Association

EMF - enhanced metafile

EPT - extended page table

ESCD - extended system configuration data

ESD - electrostatic discharge

ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute

ETW - event tracing for Windows

EULA - end user license agreement

ExCA - exchangeable card architecture

EXIF - exchangeable image file


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F

FACS - firmware ACPI control structure

FADT - fixed ACPI description table

FC - Fibre Channel

FCC - Federal Communications Commission

FC - FS - Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling

FC - HBA - Common HBA API

FCP - function control protocol

FCP - 2 - Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI, Version 2

FDC - floppy disk controller

FDO - functional device object

FIFO - first - in, first - out

FIR - fast infrared


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FIS - frame information structure

FM - frequency modulation

FQDN - fully qualified domain name

FS - file system; full scale

FSCTL - file system control

FUA - force unit access

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G

GART - graphics address remapping table

GB - gigabyte

GDI - graphics device interface

GDT - global descriptor table

GFX - global effects

GHz - gigahertz


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GMO - guest memory operation

GPA - guest physical address

GPADL - guest physical address descriptor list

GPDPT - guest page directory pointer table

GPDT - guest page directory table

GPE - general purpose event

GPIO - general - purpose I/O

GPML4T - guest page map level 4 table

GPO - group policy object

GPRS - general packet radio services

GPT - GUID partition table; guest page table

GPU - graphics processing unit


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GQoS - generic quality of service

GRE - generic routing encapsulation

GTF - generalized timing formula

GUI - graphical user interface

GUID - globally unique identifier

GVA - guest virtual address

GXC - GDI - to - XPS conversion

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H

HAL - hardware abstraction layer

HBA - host bus adapter

HCI - host controller interface

HCL - hardware compatibility list

HCT - hardware compatibility test


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HD - high - definition

HDA - High Definition Audio [Intel]

HDC - hard disk controller

HDCP - high - bandwidth digital content protection

HDD - hard disk drive

HDK - hardware development kit

HDLC - high - level data link control

HDMI - high - definition multimedia interface

HDTV - high - definition television

HFS - hardware functionality scan

HID - human interface device

HPC - high - performance computing

HPD - hot plug detect


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HPET - high precision event timer

HPNA - home phone network adapter

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HWA - host wire adapter

Hz hertz.

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I

I/O - input/output

I2C - Inter - integrated circuit

I2O - intelligent I/O

IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

IA - PC - Intel Architecture personal computer

ICC - International Color Consortium


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ICM - image color management

ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol

ID - identifier

IDCT - inverse discrete - cosine transform

IDE - Integrated Device Electronics

IDT - interrupt dispatch table

IE - information element

IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force

IFS - installable file system

IFSC - information field size integrated circuit card


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IFSD - information field size device

IGD - Internet gateway device

IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol

IHV - independent hardware vendor

IID - interface identifier; instance identifier

IKE - Internet key exchange

IM - intermediate

INCITS - InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards

INI - initialization files

IO/MMIO - I/O or memory - mapped I/O

IOCTL - I/O control

IP - Internet Protocol

IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface


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IPsec - Internet Protocol security

IPTV - Internet Protocol television

IPv6 - Internet Protocol version 6

IR - infrared

IrDA - Infrared Data Association

IrLAP - Infrared Link Access Protocol

IrLMP - Infrared Link Management Protocol

IRP - I/O request packet

IrPHY - IrDA Serial Infrared Physical Layer Link Specification

IrPnP - IrDA Plug and Play Extensions to IrLMP

IRQ - interrupt request

IRQL - interrupt request level


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IrTinyTP - Infrared Tiny Transport Protocol

ISA - Industry Standard Architecture

ISC - Interconnect Standard Consortium

iSCSI - Internet small computer system interface

ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

iSNS - Internet Server Name Service

ISO - International Standards Organization

ISP - Internet service provider

ISR - interrupt service routine

IST - interrupt service thread

ISV - independent software vendor

ITU - International Telecommunications Union

ITU - T - International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization


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IU - information unit; Internet update

IVMS - interactive virtual machine session

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J

JEITA - Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group

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K

K - kilobyte

Kbps - kilobits per second

KCS - Keyboard Controller Style

Kg - kilogram

kHz - kilohertz

KMCL - kernel - mode client library

KMDF - Kernel Mode Driver Framework


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KS - kernel streaming

KVM - keyboard, video, and mouse

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L

LAN - local area network

LAPM - link apcess protocol for modem

LBA - logical block addressing

LBN - logical block number

LCD - liquid crystal display

LCP - Link Control Protocol

LEAP - Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol

LFE - low - frequency effects

LFX - local effects

LLD2 - Link Layer Discovery and Diagnostics


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LLTD - link layer topology discovery

LLTD - Link Layer Topology Discovery

LPC - local procedure call

LPD - line printer daemon

LPR - line printer remote

LSB - least significant bit

LSO - large send offload

LU - logical unit

LUN - logical unit number

LUT - look - up table

LVDS - low - voltage differential signaling

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M

MAC - Media Access Control


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MAC - Media Access Control

MADT - multiple APIC description table

Mb - megabit

MB - megabyte; memory block

MBE - memory block entry

MBP - memory block page

Mbps - megabits per second

MCCS - Monitor Control Command Set

MCI - Multimedia Control Interface

MCX - Media Center Extender

MD4 - Message Direct 4

MDF - Microsoft Meta - Data Framework

MDK - Modem Developers Kit


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MDL - memory descriptor list

MF - multifunction

MFP - multifunction printer

MFT - master file table

MHz - megahertz

MIB - management information base

MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIMO - multiple - input multiple - output

MIPS - millions of instructions per second

mm - millimeter

MMC - multimedia card; Microsoft Management Console

MMIO - memory - mapped I/O


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MMU - memory - management unit

MO - magneto - optic

MOF - managed object format

MOM - Microsoft Operations Manager

MPEG - Motion Picture Experts Group

MPIO - Multipath I/O

MR - modem riser

MRL - manual retention latch

ms - millisecond

MSAS - multiple shadow address space

MSB - most - significant bit

MSC - most - significant character

MSI - message signaled interrupt


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MSR - Microsoft reserved partition

MTBF - mean time between failures

MTP - Media Transfer Protocol

MTS - multichannel television sound

MTU - maximum transmission unit

MUI - multilingual user interface

MUX - multiplexer

MXC - media center extender

MXDW - Microsoft XPS Document Writer

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N

NABTS - North American Basic Teletext Specification

NAK - negative acknowledgment

NAND - Not AND


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NAP - Network Access Protection

NAS - network - attached storage

NAT - network address translation

NAVI - D - New Analog Video Interface - Digital

NAVI - P - New Analog Video Interface - Portable

NAVI - V - New Analog Video Interface VGA

NCQ - native command queuing

NDA - non - disclosure agreement

NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification

NIC - network interface card

NLA - network location awareness

NLB - network load balancing


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NS - noise suppression

NTFS - NT file system

NTLDR - Windows NT Loader

NTSC - National Television System Committee

NUMA - nonuniform memory access

NVRAM - non - volatile random access memory

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O

OAL - OEM adaptation layer

OCA - Online Crash Analysis

OCUR - OpenCable unidirectional receivers

OEM - original equipment manufacturer

OHCI - Open Host Controller Interface

OID - object identifier


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OOBE - out - of - box experience

OPK - open product key

OPM - output protection management

OS - operating system

OSI - open systems interconnection

OSPM - operating system - directed power management

OSTA - Optical Storage Technology Association

OUI - organizationally unique identifier

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P

P2P - peer - to - peer

PA - physical address

PAE - physical address extension

PAL - phase alternation line; Platform Abstraction Layer


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PAN - personal area network

PAP - protected audio path

PATA - parallel ATA

PAWS - protection against wrapping sequence

PC - personal computer

PCB - printed circuit board

PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCIe - PCI Express

PCIIO - PCI I/O

PCL - printer control language

PCM - pulse code modulation

PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PD - phase dual


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PDA - personal digital assistant

PDB - parallel data base

PDL - page description language

PDO - physical device object

PE - Protected Environment; portable executable

PES - packetized elementary stream

PFD - PREfast for drivers

PHY - Physical layer

PIC - programmable interrupt controller; publisher identity certificate

PID - product identifier

PIM - personal information manager

PIMA - Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association


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PIN - personal identification number

PIO - programmed input/output

PM - power management

PME - power management event

PMP - protected media path

PNP, PnP - Plug and Play

PnP - X - Plug and Play Extensions

POS - point of sale

POST - power - on self test

POTS - plain old telephone service

ppi - points per inch

PPM - parent partition mapping

PPP - Point - to - Point Protocol


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PRCB - processor control block

PRCS - proactive reporting and correcting safeguard

PS2 - Personal System 2

PSH - push

PSHED - platform - specific hardware error driver

PSK - product service key

PSS - product support services

PSTN - public switched telephone network

PTE - page table entry

PTEC - page table edit control

PTP - Picture Transfer Protocol

PTS - page table shadowing


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PTS - presentation time stamp

PU - partition unit

PUMA - protected user - mode audio

PVP - protected video path

PVR - personal video recorder

PXE - preboot execution environment

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Q

QAM - quadrature amplitude modulation

QFE - quick - fix engineering

QIC - quarter - inch cartridge

QoS - quality of service

qWAVE - quality Windows audio/video experience.

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R

RADIUS - Remote Authentication Dial - in User Service


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RAID - redundant array of independent disks

RAM - random access memory

RBC - reduced block command

RCA - Radio Corporation of America

RDMA - remote direct memory access

RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol

RF - radio frequency

RFC - request for comment

RG - residential gateway

RGB - red green blue

RIP - raster image processor

RIRB - response input ring buffer


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RIS - remote installation server

RME - real - mode emulator

RMS - Rights Management Services

RNDIS - Remote Network Driver Interface Specification

ROM - read - only memory

RPC - remote procedure call

RSDP - root system description pointer

RSS - receive - side scaling

RSSI - received signal strength indication

RST - reset

RT - real time

RTC - real - time clock

RTCP - Real Time Control Protocol


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RTP - Real - Time Transport Protocol

RW - readable/writable.

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S

s - second

S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format

S/T - pseudo - ternary

SACL - system access control list

SAL - system abstraction layer

SAM - SCSI architecture mode

SAN - storage area network

SAP - secondary audio programming

SAPIC - streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller

SAS - serial attached SCSI; shadow address space


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SATA - Serial ATA

SBC - SCSI block command

SBP - serial bus protocol

SCI - system control interrupt

SCSI - small computer system interface

SD - secure digital

SDDL - security descriptor definition language

SDIO - secure digital I/O

SDK - Software Development Kit

SDO - serial data out

SDP - Sockets Direct Protocol

SDTV - standard - definition television


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SDV - Static Driver Verifier

SECAM - Sequential Color with Memory

SFF - small form factor

SID - security identifier

SIG - special interest group

SIOM - server I/O module

SIR - serial infrared

SKU - stock keeping unit

SLAM - Software, Languages, Analysis, and Modeling

SLAT - second - level address translation

SMART - self - monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology

SMBIOS - system management BIOS

SMC - SDSI media changer


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SMI - system management interrupt

SMM - system management mode

SMP - symmetric multiprocessing

SMPTE - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

SNR - signal - to - noise ratio

SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol

SoC - system on a chip

SoftAP - "Soft" Access Point

SoIP - storage - over - IP

SP - service pack

SPA - system physical address


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SPC - SCSI primary commands

SPDPT - shadow page directory pointer table

SPDT - shadow page directory table

SPI - SCSI parallel interface

SPID - service profile identifier

SPML4T - shadow page map level - 4 table

SPP - serial port profile

SPT - shadow page table

SRB - SCSI request block

SRC - sample rate conversion

sRGB - standard red - green - blue

SRTM - static root of trust for measurement

SSDP - Simple Service Discovery Protocol


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SSID - service set identifier

SSL - secure sockets layer

STB - set - top box

STI - still image architecture

STP - Spanning Tree Protocol

SUT - system under test

SVID - subsystem vendor ID

SVM - See secure virtual machine

T

TC - traffic control

TCG - Trusted Computer Group

TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

TCS - trusted configuration space


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TDI - transport driver interface

TIA - Telecommunications Industry Association

TLC - third - level cache

TLV - type length value

TLV - type - length - value

TMF - trace message format

TMM - Transient Multimon Manager

TOE - TCP offload engine

TPL - Trusted Products List

TPM - Trusted Platform Module

TV - television

TVAF - TV Anytime Forum

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UAA - Universal Audio Architecture

UAGP - universal accelerated graphics port

UAP - user account protection

UART - universal asynchronous receiver - transmitter

UDCR - uni - directional cable receiver

UDF - universal disk format

UDMA - ultra - direct memory access

UDP - User Datagram Protocol

UEFI - Unified Extended Firmware Interface

UFD - USB flash drive

UFDA - USB Flash Drive Alliance

UHCI - Universal Host Controller Interface

UI - user interface


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UMA - user - mode audio

UMDF - User Mode Driver Fframework

UML - Unified Modeling Language

UMV - User Mode Bus

UNC - universal naming convention

UPnP - universal Plug and Play

URB - universal request block

URI - uniform resource identifier

USB - Universal Serial Bus

USB - IF - USB Implementers Forum

USN - unique service name

UUID - universally unique identifier


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UVC - USB video class

UWB - ultrawide band

UX - user experience.

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V

VA - video acceleration; virtual address

VBE - VESA BIOS extension

VBI - vertical blanking interval

VBR - variable bit rate

VC - virtual channel

Vcc - Voltage at the common collector (positive [+] electrical connection)

VCP - Virtual Control Program Interface

VCR - video cassette recorder

VDS - virtual disk service


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VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association

VFIR - very fast infrared

VGA - video graphics array

VHD - virtual hard disk

VHF - very high frequency

VID - vendor ID; virtualization infrastructure driver

VLAN - virtual local area network

VM - virtual machine

VMBus - virtual machine bus

VML - virtual machine library

VMR - video mixing renderer

VoIP - voice over IP

VP - virtual processor


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VPD - vital product data

VPN - virtual private network

Vrms - volt root mean square

VSB - vestigial side band

VSC - virtualization service client

VSMM - virtualization stack memory manager

VSP - virtualization service provider

VSS - volume shadow copy service

VT - [Intel] Virtualization Technology.

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W

WAN - wide area network

WAP - Wireless Application Protocol

WaveRT - wave real time


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WBEM - Web - Based Enterprise Management

WC - write - combined

WCN - Windows Connect Now

WCS - Windows color system

WDDM - Window Display Driver Model

WDF - Windows Driver Foundation

WDK - Windows Driver Kit

WDM - Windows Driver Model

WDRT - watchdog resource table

WDT - watchdog timers

WDTF - Windows device testing framework

WEP - wired equivalent privacy


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WER - Windows error reporting

WFA - Wi - Fi Alliance

WFP - Windows Filtering Platform

WGF - Windows Graphics Foundation

WHCI - wireless host controller interface

WHDC - Windows Hardware Developer Central

WHEA - Windows hardware error architecture

WHQL - Windows Hardware Quality Labs

WIA - Windows image acquisition

Wi - Fi - wireless fidelity

Winqual - Windows Quality Online Services

WinSAT - Windows System Assessment Tool

WiX - Windows Installer XML


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WLAN - wireless LAN

WLP - Windows Logo Program

WMA - Windows Media Audio

WMDM - Windows Media device manager

WMDRM - Windows Media digital rights management

WME - wireless multimedia extension

WMI - Windows Management Instrumentation

WMM - wireless multimedia

WMV - Windows Media video

WMX - Web Services for Management extension

WOL - wake - on LAN

WOW64 - Microsoft Windows - 32 - bit - on - Windows - 64 - bit


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WPA - Wi - Fi protected access

WPAN - wireless personal area network

WPD - Windows portable devices

WPF - Windows Presentation Foundation

WPP - Windows software trace preprocessor

WQL - WMI query language

WRE - write cache enable

WSC - Wi - Fi Simple Configuration

WSD - Web Services for Devices

WSDAPI - Web Services for Devices API

WSK - Winsock kernel

WUSB - wireless USB

WWAN - wireless wide area network


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WWN - worldwide name

WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get

WZC - wireless zero configuration.

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X

XAML - extensible application markup language

XDDM - Windows XP Display Driver Model

XGC - XPS - to - GDI conversion

XID - transaction ID

XML - extensible markup language

XPDDM - Windows XP Display Driver Model

XPS - XML Paper Specification

XSD - XML schema definition

XSDT - extended system description table


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XSP - Extender Session Protocol

XUSB - Xbox 360 Universal Serial Bus

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