If not, then the video wont play or the subtitles and captions wont appear. Lets assume that you want to show the English subtitles on the video. The sterreichisches Wrterbuch ("Austrian Dictionary"), abbreviated WB, is the official dictionary of the German language in the Republic of Austria. [211] In 2015, Microsoft established its own parental leave policy to allow 12 weeks off for parental leave with an additional 8 weeks for the parent who gave birth. Create a better, more engaging experience for every student. endobj 3 Under a per-processor license, an OEM pays Microsoft a royalty for each computer it sells containing a particular microprocessor, whether the OEM sells the computer with a Microsoft operating system or a non-Microsoft operating system. [207], Microsoft is an outspoken opponent of the cap on H-1B visas, which allows companies in the U.S. to employ certain foreign workers. 0 << The auxiliary verb is still in second position. [212], In 2011, Greenpeace released a report rating the top ten big brands in cloud computing on their sources of electricity for their data centers. This is where you can customize the appearance of the subtitles and captions. 0 /Type /Resources [197] In December 2013, the company made statement to further emphasize the fact that they take their customers' privacy and data protection very seriously, even saying that "government snooping potentially now constitutes an 'advanced persistent threat,' alongside sophisticated malware and cyber attacks". However, such a point of view is unusual in German linguistics. Any lower case "s" at the beginning of a syllable would be a long s, as opposed to a terminal s or short s (the more common variation of the letter s), which marks the end of a syllable; for example, in differentiating between the words Wachtube (guard-house) and Wachstube (tube of polish/wax). Since 2004, Meetings of German-speaking countries have been held annually with six participants: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. [186], In July 2014, Microsoft announced plans to lay off 18,000 employees. [1][52] German was once, and to some extent still is, a lingua franca in those parts of Europe. [4], German is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Get breaking news and the latest headlines on business, entertainment, politics, world news, tech, sports, videos and much more from AOL Windows 7's focus was on refining Vista with ease-of-use features and performance enhancements, rather than an extensive reworking of Windows. An exception was the use of in legal documents and forms when capitalizing names. [225] Microsoft operates an East Coast headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016,[3] followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5billion in May 2011.[4]. A Look Back: Major blackout hits New York City on July 13, 1977 On July 13, 1977, 45 years ago Wednesday, a major blackout hit New York City. [105] Microsoft's share of the U.S. smartphone market in January 2016 was 2.7%. Help the refugees. A Microsoft 365 subscription offers an ad-free interface, custom domains, enhanced security options, the full desktop version of Office, and 1 TB of cloud storage. An acronym is a word or name formed from the initial components of a longer name or phrase. As a result, the company paid a tax rate on those profits of "nearly 0%." But there are some noises or inaudible sounds Unclaim the project as Missing audio. Room 1318-19,13/F Hollywood Plaza, 610 Nathan Road Mong Kok, Kowloon HK Read transcripts from debates, speeches, rallies, interviews, congressional hearings, company announcements, and more. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washington, United States. Microsoft Got Tougher", "US Department of Justice Proposed Findings of FactRevised", "US Department of Justice Proposed Findings of Fact", "NSA taps in to internet giants' systems to mine user data, secret files reveal", "U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program", "U.S. says it gathers online data abroad", "Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Yahoo, Microsoft And Apple Deny Participation In NSA PRISM Surveillance Program", "Rev. 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Find current and upcoming funding opportunities for your research, as well as research partners, jobs and fellowships. Calculate how much it costs to transcribe, caption, or subtitle your content. Internet Explorer has not bundled with the retail Windows 95 boxes, because the boxes were printed before the team finished the Web browser, and instead were included in the Windows 95 Plus! Further east, the non-Franconian, East Central German dialects are spoken (Thuringian, Upper Saxon and North Upper Saxon-South Markish, and earlier, in the then German-speaking parts of Silesia also Silesian, and in then German southern East Prussia also High Prussian). As of 2015[update], Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC compatible operating system market and the office software suite market, although it has lost the majority of the overall operating system market to Android. The East Germanic languages are now extinct, and Gothic is the only language in this branch which survives in written texts. The big and beautiful U.S.-Mexico border wall that became a key campaign issue for Donald Trump is getting a makeover thanks to the Biden administration, but a critic of the current president says dirty politics is behind the decision. 6 It has strong and weak verbs. [36], In the United States, German is the fifth most spoken language in terms of native and second language speakers after English, Spanish, French, and Chinese (with figures for Cantonese and Mandarin combined), with over 1 million total speakers. Search for: Home; News; [109] Intune for Education is a new cloud-based application and device management service for the education sector. [36] The company released Windows 95 on August 24, 1995, featuring pre-emptive multitasking, a completely new user interface with a novel start button, and 32-bit compatibility; similar to NT, it provided the Win32 API. [96] Thompson became the second chairman in Microsoft's history. Transcribe your audio files to find high-impact insights in minutes. It is edited by a group of linguists under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (German: Bundesministerium fr Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur). [116] On October 10, 2018, Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network community despite holding more than 60,000 patents. Latest breaking news from New York City. government. [32][33], On July 27, 1994, the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division filed a competitive impact statement that said: "Beginning in 1988 and continuing until July 15, 1994, Microsoft induced many OEMs to execute anti-competitive 'per processor licenses. "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE),[253] also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate",[254] is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found[255] that was used internally by Microsoft[256] to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to strongly disadvantage competitors. /MediaBox In the north of the German Low Franconian language area, North Low Franconian dialects (also referred to as Cleverlands or as dialects of South Guelderish) are spoken. Fellow founders were Google, HP Networking, Yahoo!, Verizon Communications, Deutsche Telekom and 17 other companies. Orthographischen Konferenz (1901) in der Geschichte der deutschen Rechtschreibung", "El debate sobre "el embrujamiento alemnn" y el papel de la ciencia alemana hacia fines del siglo XIX en Chile", "Autochthonous Linguistic Minorities in the Italian Alps", "6.5. [6] This unfolded with Microsoft acquiring Danger Inc. in 2008,[7] entering the personal computer production market for the first time in June 2012 with the launch of the Microsoft Surface line of tablet computers, and later forming Microsoft Mobile through the acquisition of Nokia's devices and services division. Read breaking headlines covering politics, economics, pop culture, and more. [240][241], 19751980: First Microsoft logo, in 1975, 19801982: Second Microsoft logo, in 1980, 19821987: Third Microsoft logo, in 1982, 19872012: Microsoft "Pac-Man" logo, designed by Scott Baker and used from 1987 to 2012[233][234], 2012present: Fifth Microsoft logo, introduced on August 23, 2012[242], The company was the official jersey sponsor of Finland's national basketball team at EuroBasket 2015.[243]. Find the latest U.S. news stories, photos, and videos on NBCNews.com. This classification indicates their historical descent from dialects spoken by the Irminones (also known as the Elbe group), Ingvaeones (or North Sea Germanic group), and Istvaeones (or Weser-Rhine group).[5]. [107] In June 2016, Microsoft announced a project named Microsoft Azure Information Protection. 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As of 2022[update], Microsoft has the fourth-highest global brand valuation. Critics decried the alliance as a way to enforce indiscriminate restrictions over how consumers use software, and over how computers behave, and as a form of digital rights management: for example, the scenario where a computer is not only secured for its owner but also secured against its owner as well. /Pages In this article, youll learn how to add captions and subtitles to HTML5 videos. The best opinions, comments and analysis from The Telegraph. Microsoft is an international business. [163][164] Though the company had subsequent increases in dividend payouts, the price of Microsoft's stock remained steady for years. While the major changes of the MHG period were socio-cultural, High German was still undergoing significant linguistic changes in syntax, phonetics, and morphology as well (e. g. diphthongization of certain vowel sounds: hus (OHG & MHG "house")haus (regionally in later MHG)Haus (NHG), and weakening of unstressed short vowels to schwa []: taga (OHG "days")tage (MHG)).[9]. With the prolonged isolation from other German speakers and contact with Australian English, a unique dialect known as Barossa German developed, spoken predominantly in the Barossa Valley near Adelaide. Acronyms are usually formed from the initial letters of words, as in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), but sometimes use syllables, as in Benelux (short for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg).They can also be a mixture, as in radar (Radio Detection And Ranging). Alongside these courtly written standards, the invention of the printing press led to the development of a number of printers' languages (Druckersprachen) aimed at making printed material readable and understandable across as many diverse dialects of German as possible. The early written tradition of OHG survived mostly through monasteries and scriptoria as local translations of Latin originals; as a result, the surviving texts are written in highly disparate regional dialects and exhibit significant Latin influence, particularly in vocabulary. The Franconian, West Central German dialects are the Central Franconian dialects (Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian) and the Rhine Franconian dialects (Hessian and Palatine). [82], In July 2012, Microsoft sold its 50% stake in MSNBC, which it had run as a joint venture with NBC since 1996. In January 2021, the company announced on Twitter to join the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, which engages the cloud infrastructure and data centers industries to reach carbon neutrality in Europe by 2030. [116] In April 2018, Microsoft released the source code for Windows File Manager under the MIT License to celebrate the program's 20th anniversary. The announcement came with confusion after Microsoft announced Windows 10 would be the last version of the operating system; set to be released in the third quarter of 2021. [11]:323324, On January 13, 2000, Bill Gates handed over the CEO position to Steve Ballmer, an old college friend of Gates and employee of the company since 1980, while creating a new position for himself as Chief Software Architect. Tech publications like TechCrunch have been highly critical of the advertising campaign,[185] while Google employees have embraced it. xXn7%@!%>4AKdBdWBq>s8h$vmp[.SKQ0zoHy+)~sl %lfba;)EnW7.f|3H5$>\.=Tz. [1][48] German ranks second on par with French among the best known foreign languages in the European Union (EU) after English,[1] as well as in Russia,[49] and Turkey. For example, the English sentence "Should he go home?" Kinect's capabilities were revealed in May 2013: an ultra-wide 1080p camera, function in the dark due to an infrared sensor, higher-end processing power and new software, the ability to distinguish between fine movements (such as a thumb movement), and determining a user's heart rate by looking at their face. "[214] In 2013, Microsoft agreed to buy power generated by a Texas wind project to power one of its data centers. [86] To cope with the potential for an increase in demand for products and services, Microsoft opened a number of "holiday stores" across the U.S. to complement the increasing number of "bricks-and-mortar" Microsoft Stores that opened in 2012. ] In certain regions, they have replaced the traditional German dialects, especially in Northern Germany. Rev now offers burned-in captions (open captions). The plural has an inflection for the dative. However, historically, High German dialects and Low Saxon/Low German dialects do not belong to the same language. [164][165], Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service have both given a AAA rating to Microsoft, whose assets were valued at $41 billion as compared to only $8.5 billion in unsecured debt. Convert your audio or video into 99% accurate text by a professional. /Parent /Type [151] Activision and Microsoft each released statements saying the acquisition was to benefit their businesses in the metaverse, many saw Microsoft's acquisition of video game studios as an attempt to compete against Meta Platforms, with TheStreet referring to Microsoft wanting to become "the Disney of the metaverse". But there is foreign language content Unclaim the project as Foreign language. As such, it needs subsidiaries present in whatever national markets it chooses to harvest. During the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, the Low Franconian dialects now spoken in Germany, used Middle Dutch or Early Modern Dutch as their literary language and Dachsprache. What you can do is wrap the functionality in a PL/pgsql function (or another language, but PL/pgsql seems to be the most appropriate for this), and then just call that function. One can easily decide which "s" to use by appropriate hyphenation, (Wach-tube vs. Wachs-tube). The Central German dialects are spoken in Central Germany, from Aachen in the west to Grlitz in the east. Thus, in sentences with several subordinate or relative clauses, the infinitives are clustered at the end. [73] The initiative is meant to speed innovation through simple software changes in telecommunications networks, wireless networks, data centers, and other networking areas. [246] Historically, Microsoft has also been accused of overworking employees, in many cases, leading to burnout within just a few years of joining the company. endobj /D Official City of Calgary local government Twitter account. [46], A German creole named Unserdeutsch was historically spoken in the former German colony of German New Guinea, modern day Papua New Guinea. The fairy tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century became famous throughout the world. A footnote in Microsoft's submission to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has let slip the reason behind Call of Duty's absence from the Xbox Game Pass library: Sony and Below are images of the video and how they look like in their respective browsers. NEWS. [30], Namibia also was a colony of the German Empire, from 1884 to 1915. German is an inflected language, with four cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative); three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter); and two numbers (singular, plural). [195] However, in June 2013, an official statement from Microsoft flatly denied their participation in the program: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, "We provide customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so, and never on a voluntary basis. This means you can markup the video file in HTML5 without using the VTT or SRT file markup. How prepared are you at product launch (or major release) time? [215] Microsoft is ranked on the 17th place in Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics (16th Edition) that ranks 18 electronics manufacturers according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling, and climate change. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows.

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