Microsoft's technology for building messaging or collaboration applications or adding these capabilities to existing applications. 

A category of business software that adds social networking capabilities to work processes. It incorporates knowledge management into business processes so employees can share information and solve business problems more efficiently.

An approach to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in which the various departments of a company, such as sales, technical support, and marketing, share any information they collect from interactions with customers.

An integration tool from SAP designed to solve the widespread challenges of data integration from multiple systems. It collects and integrate data from SAP and non-SAP  to obtain a single view of data.

Collaborative software or groupware is an application software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals.

A care-of address is a temporary IP address for a mobile node (mobile device) that enables message delivery when the device is connecting from somewhere other than its home network. 

A hosting option that allows the placement of server in a colocation provider's rack and share their bandwidth. It cost more than Web hosting, but consumes less bandwidth.

A colocation centre is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers with a minimum of cost and complexity.

A colocation centre or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. 

A colocation server is a privately-owned servers and networking equipment in a colocation centre. Colocation allows customers to benefit from economies of scale that would not be available to them with an in-house option. Housing hardware in a colocation centre gives access to higher levels of bandwidth than would be achievable in a normal office server room, and at a much lower cost.

In computer graphics, a color gradient (sometimes called a color ramp or color progression) specifies a range of position-dependent colors, usually used to fill a region. The colors produced by a gradient vary continuously with position, producing smooth color transitions.

A color tool, color picker, or color chooser is a utility, usually found within graphics software or online, used to choose colors or create color schemes.

Color television is part of the history of television, the technology of television and practices associated with television's transmission of moving images in color video.

A Database Management System (DBMS) that stores data in columns instead of rows. The goal of a columnar database is to efficiently write and read data to and from hard disk storage in order to speed up the time it takes to return a query.

An extension of Component Object Model (COM), Microsoft's strategic building block approach for developing application programs. COM+ is both an object-oriented programming architecture and a set of operating system services. 

A CSV file contains the values in a table as a series of ASCII text lines organized so that each column value is separated by a comma from the next column's value and each row starts a new line.