| Italian | English |
| API Accessibilità | Accessibility API (An API that contains controls and features that facilitate accessibility) |
| API Acquisizione da fotocamera | 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) |
| API Aggiunta touch | 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) |
| API Dati | Data API (An API that contains controls and features for accessing, working with, and storing data and documents) |
| API di accesso al 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) |
| API di connettività Smart Device | 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) |
| API di infrastruttura per 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) |
| API di prossimità | 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) |
| API Dispositivi portatili 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)) |
| API Gestione | Management API (An API that contains controls and features for deploying, administering, and managing apps) |
| API Globalizzazione | Globalization API (An API that contains features enabling apps for a global audience) |
| API identificazione origine input | Input Source Identification API (A native API that, when an app gets input, tells the app what kind of hardware it came from) |
| API JavaScript per 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) |
| API .NET per app di Windows Store | .NET APIs for Windows Store apps (The subset of .NET APIs that can be used to develop Windows Store apps) |
| API per le funzionalità di rete | Networking API (The API for networking) |
| API per servizi Web Access | Access Web Services API (An API that provides programmatic access to the capabilities on SharePoint) |
| API per servizi Web 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) |
| API per Windows Imaging | Windows Imaging API (An API set used by ImageX for capturing and applying images to your network or destination computers) |
| API Sicurezza | Security API (An API for asset protection, usage control, privacy, and policy application) |
| API 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) |
| 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) |
| API Windows Live Contacts | Windows Live Contacts API (The API that defines a set of web services which can programmatically access the Windows Live Contacts Address Book database) |
| applicazione compatibile con Cluster API | cluster-aware application (An application that can run on a cluster node and that can be managed as a cluster resource. Cluster-aware applications use the Cluster API to receive status and notification information from the server cluster) |
| applicazione incompatibile con Cluster API | cluster-unaware application (An application that can run on a cluster node and be managed as a cluster resource but that does not support the Cluster API) |
| chiamata API | API call (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| chiamata API di sistema | system API call (A transition from user to kernel mode) |
| cursore API del server | API server cursor (A server cursor that is built to support the cursor functions of an API, such as ODBC, OLE DB, ADO, and DB-Library) |
| NLS API | national language support API (Set of system functions in 32-bit Windows containing information that is based on language and cultural conventions) |
| 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) |