| English | Spanish |
| Access Web Services API | API de Servicios web de Access (An API that provides programmatic access to the capabilities on SharePoint) |
| Accessibility API | API de accesibilidad (An API that contains controls and features that facilitate accessibility) |
| API call | llamada API (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| API server cursor | cursor de servidor de API (A server cursor that is built to support the cursor functions of an API, such as ODBC, OLE DB, ADO, and DB-Library) |
| Camera Capture API | API de Captura de cámara (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) |
| Crypto API Diagnostics | Diagnóstico Crypto API (A utility that can only be enabled by an administrator and which logs events associated with an applications use of certificates) |
| Data API | API de datos (An API that contains controls and features for accessing, working with, and storing data and documents) |
| Data Protection API | API de protección de datos (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) |
| Device Access API | API de acceso a dispositivos (A set of COM interfaces that a device companion app can use to send requests, to a specialized device, synchronously or asynchronously) |
| DRT API | plataforma DRT (The Application Programming Interface (API) that allows applications to publish and resolve numeric keys in a peer network) |
| Globalization API | API de globalización (An API that contains features enabling apps for a global audience) |
| Input Source Identification API | API de identificación de origen de entrada (A native API that, when an app gets input, tells the app what kind of hardware it came from) |
| JavaScript API for Office | API de Javascript para 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 de Administración (An API that contains controls and features for deploying, administering, and managing apps) |
| national language support API | compatibilidad con el idioma nacional (Set of system functions in 32-bit Windows containing information that is based on language and cultural conventions) |
| Networking API | API para redes (The API for networking) |
| Notification API | API de notificación (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) |
| Proximity API | API de proximidad (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 para seguridad (An API for asset protection, usage control, privacy, and policy application) |
| Smart Device Connectivity API | API de conectividad de dispositivos 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 para 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 | llamada API del sistema (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| Telephony API | API de telefonía (An application programming interface (API) used by communications programs to work with telephony and network services) |
| Timer Coalescence API | API de combinación de temporizadores (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 de inserción de entrada táctil (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) |
| Virus Scanning API | API de detección de virus (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) |
| web worker API | API para Web Workers (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 Live Contacts API | API de Contactos de Windows Live (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 de dispositivos portátiles de 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 de Servicios web de 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) |