| English | Italian |
| Access Web Services API | API per servizi Web Access (An API that provides programmatic access to the capabilities on SharePoint) |
| Accessibility API | API Accessibilità (An API that contains controls and features that facilitate accessibility) |
| API call | chiamata API (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| API server cursor | cursore API del server (A server cursor that is built to support the cursor functions of an API, such as ODBC, OLE DB, ADO, and DB-Library) |
| ASP.NET Web API | API Web ASP.NET (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) |
| Camera Capture API | API Acquisizione da fotocamera (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) |
| Data API | API Dati (An API that contains controls and features for accessing, working with, and storing data and documents) |
| Device Access API | API di accesso al dispositivo (A set of COM interfaces that a device companion app can use to send requests, to a specialized device, synchronously or asynchronously) |
| DRT API | piattaforma DRT (The Application Programming Interface (API) that allows applications to publish and resolve numeric keys in a peer network) |
| Globalization API | API Globalizzazione (An API that contains features enabling apps for a global audience) |
| Input Source Identification API | API identificazione origine input (A native API that, when an app gets input, tells the app what kind of hardware it came from) |
| Internet Server API | ISAPI (An application programming interface (API) that resides on a server computer for initiating software services tuned for Windows operating systems. In Microsoft Provisioning System, ISAPI resides on the Web server) |
| JavaScript API for Office | API JavaScript per 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) |
| Management API | API Gestione (An API that contains controls and features for deploying, administering, and managing apps) |
| national language support API | NLS API (Set of system functions in 32-bit Windows containing information that is based on language and cultural conventions) |
| Networking API | API per le funzionalità di rete (The API for networking) |
| Proximity API | API di prossimità (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) |
| Security API | API Sicurezza (An API for asset protection, usage control, privacy, and policy application) |
| Smart Device Connectivity API | API di connettività Smart Device (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) |
| SMS API | API SMS (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) |
| system API call | chiamata API di sistema (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| Telephony API | TAPI (An application programming interface (API) used by communications programs to work with telephony and network services) |
| Timer Coalescence API | aggregazione dei timer (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) |
| Touch Injection API | API Aggiunta touch (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) |
| web worker API | 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) |
| Windows Imaging API | API per Windows Imaging (An API set used by ImageX for capturing and applying images to your network or destination computers) |
| Windows Live Contacts API | API Windows Live Contacts (The API that defines a set of web services which can programmatically access the Windows Live Contacts Address Book database) |
| Windows Portable Device API | API Dispositivi portatili Windows (An API that provides access to digital still cameras, media players, and multi-function cellular phones that implement Media Transfer Protocol (MTP)) |
| Windows Web Services API | API per servizi Web Windows (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) |