| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | installation phase | 安装阶段 (The phase where one of the three Sequencing Wizards (the Installation Wizard) gathers information for monitoring an application's installation and launch) |
| comp., MS | package configuration phase | 程序包配置阶段 (The phase where one of the Sequencing Wizards (the Package Configuration Wizard) gathers information necessary for creating the OSD file) |
| comp., MS | Phase Alternating Line The dominant television standard in Europe and China. Phase Alternating Line (PAL) delivers 25 interlaced frames per second at 625 lines of resolution | 逐行倒相制式 (PAL制) |
| comp., MS | redo phase | 重做阶段 (The phase during recovery that applies (rolls forward) logged changes to a database to bring the data forward in time) |
| comp., MS | request phase | 请求阶段 (A particular phase of the ILM "2" request processing model. It represents one of three workflows: Authentication, Authorization or Action) |
| comp., MS | two-phase commit | 两阶段提交 (A protocol that ensures that transactions that apply to more than one server are completed on all servers or none at all. Two-phase commit is coordinated by the transaction manager and supported by resource managers) |
| comp., MS | undo phase | 撤消阶段 (The phase during database recovery that reverses (rolls back) changes made by any transactions that were uncommitted when the redo phase of recovery completed) |
| comp., MS | workflow phase | 工作流阶段 (A set of workflow stages that have been grouped together) |