Examples of Microsoft Middleware in a sentence
Any request for confirmation pursuant to this section must be unbiased with regard to Microsoft Middleware Products and Non-Microsoft Middleware.
On this basis, the Court finds that § III.H.1(a) advances the public interest.Section III.H.1(b) also requires Microsoft to allow end users and OEMs to enable or remove access to middleware products by “enabling or disabling automatic invocations pursuant to § III.C.3 of the SRPFJ that are used to launch Non-Microsoft Middleware Products or Microsoft Middleware Products.” Id. § III.H.1(b).
Id. at 63-64.Section III.H.1(a) requires that Microsoft permit end users and OEMs “to enable or remove access to each Microsoft Middleware Product or Non-Microsoft Middleware Product by.
The term “Microsoft Middleware” is used in this context, rather than “MicrosoftMiddleware Product,” because § III.D requires the identification of particular pieces of software code.In order to identify specifically the appropriate pieces of code, the definition of “Microsoft Middleware” identifies the code that Microsoft distributes separately from Windows and trademarks or identifies as a major version of any Microsoft Middleware Product.
Id. § III.C.3. The “mechanism” for such enabling or disabling must offer an unbiased choice between each Microsoft Middleware Product and Non- Microsoft Middleware Product and may offer such an unbiased choice as between all Microsoft Middleware Products as a group and Non-Microsoft Middleware Products as a group.
API is defined in § III.D as “the interfaces, including any associated callback interfaces, that Microsoft Middleware running on a Windows Operating System Product uses to call upon that Windows Operating System Product in order to obtain any services from that Windows Operating System Product.” SRPFJ § III.D. Some entities filing comments complain that the definition of API is too narrow.
Id. § III.D. “In the case of a new major version of Microsoft Middleware, the disclosures .
SRPFJ § III.C.3. This provision protects automatic launching of Non-Microsoft Middleware Products only where “a Microsoft Middleware Product that provides similar functionality would otherwise be launched automatically at that time” and imposes stringent limitations upon such automatic launching.
Id. Where such Non-Microsoft Middleware is permitted to automatically launch, § III.C.3. requires that the middleware either provide no user interface or a user interface that resembles the corresponding Microsoft Middleware Product interface.
Upon recommendation of the Special Master or the representative of the Plaintiffs, or sua sponte, the Court shall review evidence that Microsoft has brought or has threatened to bring a groundless claim of Intellectual Property infringement for the purpose of preventing, hindering, impairing, or inhibiting any non-Microsoft software, Middleware, or Web-Based Software from Interoperating with a Microsoft Operating System Product or Microsoft Middleware Product.