| Subject | Portuguese | English |
| comp., MS | API de Acessibilidade | Accessibility API (An API that contains controls and features that facilitate accessibility) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Acesso a Dispositivo | Device Access API (A set of COM interfaces that a device companion app can use to send requests, to a specialized device, synchronously or asynchronously) |
| comp., MS | API de Acesso a Dispositivos | Device Access API (A set of COM interfaces that a device companion app can use to send requests, to a specialized device, synchronously or asynchronously) |
| comp., MS | API de Agregação de Temporizadores | Timer Coalescence API (A native API that allows apps that aren't Windows Store apps and that use timers to coalesce timer messages such that when the screen is off, timers continue to fire but the app wakes less often, thus saving battery life) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Agrupamento de Temporizadores | Timer Coalescence API (A native API that allows apps that aren't Windows Store apps and that use timers to coalesce timer messages such that when the screen is off, timers continue to fire but the app wakes less often, thus saving battery life) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Captura com Câmera | Camera Capture API (The API that allows for devices to expose capture controls, a preview window, and the ability to specify resolution and codecs for audio/video capture) |
| comp., MS | API de Captura de Câmara | Camera Capture API (The API that allows for devices to expose capture controls, a preview window, and the ability to specify resolution and codecs for audio/video capture) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Conectividade de Dispositivo Inteligente | Smart Device Connectivity API (An application programming interface that enables developers to establish a connection between a desktop computer and a device. This API enables developers to focus on creating remote tools, while it handles the details of device interconnectivity and transport mechanisms) |
| comp., MS | API de Contactos do Windows Live | Windows Live Contacts API (The API that defines a set of web services which can programmatically access the Windows Live Contacts Address Book database) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Contatos do Windows Live | Windows Live Contacts API (The API that defines a set of web services which can programmatically access the Windows Live Contacts Address Book database) |
| comp., MS | API de Dados | Data API (An API that contains controls and features for accessing, working with, and storing data and documents) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Dispositivos Portáteis do Windows | Windows Portable Device API (An API that provides access to digital still cameras, media players, and multi-function cellular phones that implement Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Gerenciamento | Management API (An API that contains controls and features for deploying, administering, and managing apps) |
| comp., MS | API de Gestão | Management API (An API that contains controls and features for deploying, administering, and managing apps) |
| comp., MS | API de Globalização | Globalization API (An API that contains features enabling apps for a global audience) |
| comp., MS | API de Identificação da Origem de Entrada | Input Source Identification API (A native API that, when an app gets input, tells the app what kind of hardware it came from) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Identificação de Fonte de Entrada | Input Source Identification API (A native API that, when an app gets input, tells the app what kind of hardware it came from) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Injeção de Toque | Touch Injection API (A native API for touch that allows a desktop app to send touch input to the screen (it already exists for mouse and keyboard). It simulates touch by sending messages that look like touch messages. It can be used to automate testing of a Windows Store app (larger company), and is used to support a class of devices) |
| comp., MS | API de Injeção Tátil | Touch Injection API (A native API for touch that allows a desktop app to send touch input to the screen (it already exists for mouse and keyboard). It simulates touch by sending messages that look like touch messages. It can be used to automate testing of a Windows Store app (larger company), and is used to support a class of devices) |
| comp., MS | API de Java para Office | JavaScript API for Office (A JavaScript API that provides simple and consistent programmatic access to Office documents and applications across Office client environments through common as well as application-specific data types, objects, functions and events) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de licenciamento | licensing API (A Microsoft Windows programming interface used for license compliance, anti-piracy protection and restricted digital distribution) |
| comp., MS | API de Notificação | Notification API (A Windows API that is used for sending user notifications to the system, such as telling the system that the user is busy. It provides intelligence regarding when to draw a notification or perform some other custom action, and mechanisms for anchoring these notifications around the system) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Proteção de Dados | Data Protection API (A set of routines, protocols, and tools that provides information confidentiality to user and system processes by applying password-based cryptographic protection at the local operating system level) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Proximidade | Proximity API (An API that enables awareness of device proximity within an app. The simple physical gesture of tapping devices together can be used to login to Windows, launch applications, connect with other devices, and share content between devices -- all without the user needing to initiate any other action) |
| comp., MS | API de Rede | Networking API (The API for networking) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Segurança | Security API (An API for asset protection, usage control, privacy, and policy application) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Serviços Web do Access | Access Web Services API (An API that provides programmatic access to the capabilities on SharePoint) |
| comp., MS | API de Serviços Web do Windows | Windows Web Services API (A native-code implementation of SOAP that provides a foundation for building Web services for internal Microsoft customers such as components of Windows and parts of Office) |
| comp., MS | API de SMS | SMS API (An API that is part of the Windows 8 extensible platform for sending and receiving SMS text messages through a mobile broadband adapter or a cellphone connected to a PC) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de telefonia | Telephony API (An application programming interface (API) used by communications programs to work with telephony and network services) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API de Verificação de Vírus | Virus Scanning API (A virus-scanning API that is used by third-party antivirus service providers to protect computers that have the Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox server role installed) |
| comp., MS | API de web worker | web worker API (The API that defines a way to run scripts in the background. Web Workers are specified in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Workers specification) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API do Windows | Windows API (The functions, messages, data structures, data types, and statements you can use in creating applications that run under Microsoft Windows 95 or later, including procedure declarations, user-defined type definitions, and constant declarations) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API JavaScript para Office | JavaScript API for Office (A JavaScript API that provides simple and consistent programmatic access to Office documents and applications across Office client environments through common as well as application-specific data types, objects, functions and events) |
| comp., MS | API para Dispositivos Portáteis do Windows | Windows Portable Device API (An API that provides access to digital still cameras, media players, and multi-function cellular phones that implement Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | API Web ASP.NET | ASP.NET Web API (A framework that lets developers use the .NET Framework to build HTTP services (for example, RESTful applications) that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices) |
| comp., MS | APIs de Infraestrutura para o Windows Runtime | Infrastructure APIs for the Windows Runtime (A set of C++ APIs that are used by the Windows Runtime to gain access to operating system functionality. They are primarily designed for the infrastructure of the Windows Runtime, but they could be used in advanced C++ Windows Store app development) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | APIs de infraestrutura para Tempo de Execução do Windows | Infrastructure APIs for the Windows Runtime (A set of C++ APIs that are used by the Windows Runtime to gain access to operating system functionality. They are primarily designed for the infrastructure of the Windows Runtime, but they could be used in advanced C++ Windows Store app development) |
| comp., MS | APIs de Proximidade | Proximity API (An API that enables awareness of device proximity within an app. The simple physical gesture of tapping devices together can be used to login to Windows, launch applications, connect with other devices, and share content between devices -- all without the user needing to initiate any other action) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | APIs .NET para aplicativos da Windows Store | .NET APIs for Windows Store apps (The subset of .NET APIs that can be used to develop Windows Store apps) |
| comp., MS | APIs .NET para aplicações da Loja Windows | .NET APIs for Windows Store apps (The subset of .NET APIs that can be used to develop Windows Store apps) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | chamada à API | API call (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | chamada à API do sistema | system API call (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| comp., MS | Diagnóstico Crypto API | Crypto API Diagnostics (A utility that can only be enabled by an administrator and which logs events associated with an applications use of certificates) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | GSS-API | GSS-API (A generic API for performing client-server authentication that can be implemented over any authentication system. GSS-API makes it possible for applications to use the same API with different authentication mechanisms) |
| comp., MS, Braz. | Speech API | Speech API (A feature in some versions of Windows that allows applications to include speech recognition or convert text to speech) |