| English | Chinese Taiwan |
| Accessibility API | 協助工具 API (An API that contains controls and features that facilitate accessibility) |
| API call | API 呼叫 (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| API server cursor | API 伺服器資料指標 (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 | 相機擷取 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) |
| Crypto API Diagnostics | 密碼編譯 API 診斷 (A utility that can only be enabled by an administrator and which logs events associated with an applications use of certificates) |
| Data API | 資料 API (An API that contains controls and features for accessing, working with, and storing data and documents) |
| 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 | 資料保護 API (DPAPI) |
| Device Access API | 裝置存取 API (A set of COM interfaces that a device companion app can use to send requests, to a specialized device, synchronously or asynchronously) |
| DRT API | DRT 平台 (The Application Programming Interface (API) that allows applications to publish and resolve numeric keys in a peer network) |
| Globalization API | 全球化 API (An API that contains features enabling apps for a global audience) |
| Input Source Identification API | 輸入來源識別 API (A native API that, when an app gets input, tells the app what kind of hardware it came from) |
| Internet Server API | 網際網路伺服器 API (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 | 適用於 Office 的 JavaScript API (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 | 管理 API (An API that contains controls and features for deploying, administering, and managing apps) |
| national language support API | 國家語言支援 API (Set of system functions in 32-bit Windows containing information that is based on language and cultural conventions) |
| Networking API | 網路功能 API (The API for networking) |
| Notification API | 通知 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) |
| Proximity API | 近接感測 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) |
| Security API | 安全性 API (An API for asset protection, usage control, privacy, and policy application) |
| Smart Device Connectivity API | 智慧型裝置連接 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) |
| SMS API | 簡訊 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) |
| system API call | 系統 API 呼叫 (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| Telephony API | 電話語音 API (An application programming interface (API) used by communications programs to work with telephony and network services) |
| Timer Coalescence API | 聯合計時器 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) |
| Touch Injection API | 觸控源導入 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) |
| web worker API | Web 工作者 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 Portable Device API | Windows 可攜式裝置 API (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 | Windows Web 服務 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) |