| English | French |
| adaptive brightness | luminosité adaptative (Automatic display adjustment that changes the brightness of your PC screen (laptop and desktop) using light environment information provided by the ambient light sensor) |
| adaptive compression | compression adaptative (Data compression software that continually analyzes and compensates its algorithm, depending on the type and content of the data and the storage medium) |
| adaptive format | format adaptatif (" A type of format that uses Extensible Application Markup Language ("XAML") to optimize the layout of a page. By declaring a document adaptive, "Avalon" automatically optimizes the document to best use the available screen space.") |
| adaptive layout | disposition adaptative (A layout system that enables the visual elements in an application to adapt to changes in the size of the overall application window) |
| Adaptive SQM | SQM adaptatif (An extension to SQM that allows Microsoft to cause clients sending reports matching a pattern to perform some predefined action) |
| adaptive streaming | diffusion en continu adptative (A method of streaming video that enables audio and video, played back from the Web, to dynamically adjust its playback quality according to the bandwidth capabilities of the user who is playing back the video) |
| adaptive update | mise à jour auto-adaptative (An update process that uses an analysis of historical information accumulated over all previous updates to determine which documents are likely to have changed. Only this content is accessed during the crawl) |
| RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics | Graphiques adaptatifs RemoteFX (A feature that enables a seamless delivery of virtual desktop and RemoteApp programs by using the Windows Aero and 3-D experience across a variety of networks, including networks where bandwidth is limited and latency is high) |
