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Glossary of IT Terms beginning with "W"

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W2K
Windows 2000, details ...
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium, details ...
W95
Windows 95, details ...
W98
Windows 98, details ...
W9x
Windows 9x, details ...
WAG
Wild-Ass Guess, details ...
WAH
Work At Home / Working At Home, details ...
WAHO
Work At Home Opportunity, details ...
WAI
Web Accessibility Initiative, details ...
WAN
Wide Area Network, details ...
WAP
Wireless application protocol / Wireless access point, details ...
Warez
Any means to use software without paying for it, details ...
WB
Write Back / Westbound, details ...
WBS
Work Breakdown Structure, details ...
WBS Number
Unique reference number applied to a task, details ...
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, details ...
WCF
Windows Communication Foundation, details ...
WCS
Web Coverage Service, details ...
WCM
Web Content Management, details ...
WD
Western Digital / Well Done / Working Draft, details ...
WDDX
Web Development Data Exchange, details ...
Weak Network Share
Networks hare with an easily breakable password, details ...
Web-Bot
Web Robot, details ...
Web farm
Utilising multiple servers for a website, details ...
Web garden
Single server with multiple ASP.NET worker processes per application pool, details ...
Web Scraper
To capture information displayed on a web page / To automatically download an entire website, details ...
Web Service
A means for objects to obtain data from other objects across the internet, details ...
WEP
Wired Equivalent Privacy, details ...
WER
Windows Error Reporting, details ...
WF
Workflow Foundation, details ...
WFH
Working From Home, details ...
WFS
Web Feature Service, details ...
WFW
Windows For Workgroups, details ...
WGA
Windows Genuine Advantage, details ...
WGS84
World Geodetic System 1984, details ...
Wh
Watt Hour, details ...
White List
An approved list of people or organisations / An approved list of e-mail senders, details ...
WHDI
Wireless High Definition Interface, details ...
WHM
WebHost Manager, details ...
WHS
Windows Home Server, details ...
WHT
Web-Hosting-Talk, details ...
Widening Conversion
Conversion of data from a lower to a greater accuracy, details ...
WIIFM
What's In It For Me, details ...
WIKI
What I Know Is, details ...
WIM
Wireless Identity Module / Windows Imaging Format, details ...
WIMP
Windows, IIS, MySQL and PHP / Window, Icon, Menu, Pointer, details ...
WIN32
Windows 32bit API, details ...
WIN64
Windows 64bit API, details ...
Windows
A family of operating systems developed by Microsoft, details ...
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Professional or Windows 2000 Server, details ...
Windows 3.x
Windows 3, 3.1, 3.11 or WFW, details ...
Windows 9x
Windows 95, 98 or ME, details ...
Windows NT
Windows NT 3.5, NT 4 Professional or NT 4 Server, details ...
WININET
Windows Internet DLL, details ...
WINS
Windows Internet Name Service, details ...
WIP
Work In Progress, details ...
WISP
Wireless Internet Service Provider / A small bundle of something, details ...
WKT
Well Known Text, details ...
WLAN
Wireless LAN, details ...
WMI
Windows Management Instrumentation, details ...
WMIC
Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line, details ...
WMS
Warehouse Management System / Web Map Service / Web Map Server, details ...
WNAP
Wireless Network Access Point, details ...
WOA
Web Oriented Architecture, details ...
WOL
Wake On LAN, details ...
Word
The number of bits that the CPU can process at a time / Microsoft Word word-processor, details ...
Working Set
Minimum memory space required by a process, details ...
WoW64
Windows on Windows 64 bit, details ...
WP
Word Processor / WordPerfect / Work Package / Write Protected / Well Played, details ...
WPA
Windows Product Activation / Wi-Fi Protected Access, details ...
WPAD
Web Proxy Auto-Discovery, details ...
WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation, details ...
WPIM
Worker Process Isolation Model, details ...
WRT
With Respect To, details ...
WSDL
Web Services Description Language, details ...
WSE
Web Services Enhancements, details ...
WSFL
Web Services Flow Language, details ...
WSH
Windows Scripting Host, details ...
WS-I
Web Services Interoperability, details ...
WSP
Web Site Publisher / Wireless Session Protocol, details ...
WSUS
Windows Server Update Services, details ...
WTAI
Wireless Telephony Applications Interface, details ...
WTF
What The F*** / Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, details ...
WTL
Windows Template Library, details ...
WTLS
Wireless Transport Layer Security, details ...
WTP
Wireless Transport Protocol, details ...
WTS
Web Terrain Service, details ...
WUS
Windows Update Services, details ...
WWAN
Wireless Wide Area Network, details ...
WWF
Windows Workflow Foundation, details ...
WWW
World Wide Web, details ...
WXGA
Wide-XGA display, details ...
WYSIWYMG
What You See Is What You Might Get, details ...
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get, details ...
WZC
Wireless Zero Configuration, details ...