| English | German |
| Non-Plug and Play | nicht Plug & Play-fähig (Pertaining to a device, such as a game controller or printer, that does not automatically work when you plug it in to your computer. After connecting it to your computer, you have to install the necessary drivers and configure the hardware settings) |
| play count | Wiedergabeanzahl (A count of how many times a digital media file has been played) |
| Play in Background | Im Hintergrund wiedergeben (An audio style that sets your audio to play in the background as a soundtrack to your presentation) |
| Play Recorded Announcement | Aufgezeichnete Ansage wiedergeben (An item on the right-click menu for a conference participant that prompts the conferencing service to play a pre-arranged recorded announcement to the conference participants) |
| Play Sound troubleshooter | Soundwiedergabe-Problembehandlung (A troubleshooter that helps find and fix problems that prevent your computer or audio devices from playing sound) |
| Play To | Wiedergeben auf (The feature that allows users to stream music, images or videos to a specific device on their home network) |
| Play To contract | Vertrag für "Wiedergeben auf" (A contract that allows developers to leverage the Play To button on the Connect Charm to invoke the remote-play behavior. In response to the button click, the developer can invoke the Windows Play To experience. Or the developer can provide a custom Play To experience) |
| Plug and Play | Plug & Play (A type of device, such as a game controller or printer, that automatically works when you connect it to your computer. The computer configures the settings and installs the necessary drivers by itself) |
| Plug and Play BIOS | Plug & Play-BIOS (A BIOS with responsibility for configuring Plug and Play cards and system-board devices during system power up. Provides runtime configuration services for system board devices after startup) |
| plug-and-play extensions | Plug & Play-Erweiterungen (A technology that makes a loosely-connected device look like a tightly-coupled device and provides identical experience for network connected devices as directly connected devices) |
