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In computer programming, an Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building application software.

In general terms, it is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components.

A good API makes it easier to develop a computer program by providing all the building blocks, which are then put together by the programmer.

Microsoft Corporation (commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services.

Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.

Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup.

As of 2016, it was the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies.

In computing, source code is any collection of computer instructions, possibly with comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as ordinary text.

The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source code.

The source code is often transformed by an assembler or compiler into binary machine code understood by the computer.

The machine code might then be stored for execution at a later time.

Alternatively, source code may be interpreted and thus immediately executed.

A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process, including the research, design, programming, and testing of computer software.

Other job titles which are often used with similar meanings are programmer, software analyst, and software engineer.

In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product.

The end user stands in contrast to users who support or maintain the product, such as sysops, system administrators, database administrators, information technology experts, software professionals and computer technicians.

End users typically do not possess the technical understanding or skill of the product designers, a fact that is easy for designers to forget or overlook, leading to features with which the customer is dissatisfied.

In information technology, end users are not "customers" in the usual sense—they are typically employees of the customer.

For example, if a large retail corporation buys a software package for its employees to use, even though the large retail corporation was the "customer" which purchased the software, the end users are the employees of the company who will use the software at work.