| French | English |
| Chargeur du système d'exploitation Windows | Windows OS Loader (A Boot Configuration Data (BCD) application object) |
| déploiement de système d'exploitation | operating system deployment (A Configuration Manager feature that allows you to create operating system images and deploy those images to target computers) |
| gestionnaire de déploiement de système d'exploitation | Operating System Deployment Manager (A security role that grants permissions to administrative users so that they can create, deploy, and manage operating system images) |
| image de système d'exploitation personnalisée | custom OS image (The user-customized virtual hard disks (VHDs) that define the operating environment hosted by the VM role) |
| mode de mise à niveau du système d'exploitation | OS upgrade mode (The options for applying guest OS upgrades to the VMs. Available options are automatic, in which the OS is upgraded whenever a new guest OS is released in Windows Azure, and manual, in which the user chooses when to upgrade the VMs and what guest OS version to upgrade to) |
| profil de système d'exploitation invité | guest operating system profile (A library resource containing the most common settings from a Sysprep.inf file, including the computer name and domain or workgroup settings, which can be applied to a virtual machine template) |
| système d'exploitation | operating system (The software that controls the allocation and usage of hardware resources such as memory, central processing unit (CPU) time, disk space, and peripheral devices. The operating system is the foundation on which programs are built) |
| système d'exploitation hôte | host operating system (The operating system of the physical computer running the Virtual Server or Virtual PC software) |
| système d'exploitation invité | guest operating system (The operating system running on a virtual machine) |
| système d'exploitation Microsoft Windows | Microsoft Windows operating system (A proprietary software operating system with a graphical user interface (GUI)) |
| système d'exploitation Windows | Windows operating system (A proprietary software operating system with a graphical user interface (GUI)) |
| volume hébergeant un système d'exploitation | operating system volume (A volume that contains an operating system (for example, Windows Vista) that can be loaded by Windows Boot Manager. A given system can have multiple operating system volumes. The operating system on the current volume can be started only if it has an entry in the Boot Configuration Data (BCD)) |
