| English | French |
| design surface | aire de conception (The main area of the Macro Designer where macro actions are placed to be made into a macro) |
| Microsoft Surface Collage | Surface Collage (A program used to arrange and save photos as a desktop background) |
| Microsoft Surface Lagoon | Surface Lagoon (An interactive water simulation based on multi-touch technology that acts as a screen saver) |
| Microsoft Surface Music | Microsoft Surface Musique (A Surface application from Microsoft where users can browse through albums, select songs, and play them from the playlist) |
| Microsoft Surface unit | unité Microsoft Surface (The set of hardware components that, together with the Microsoft Surface software, make up the Microsoft Surface product. At a high level, a Surface unit consists of a computer module and the Surface Vision System enclosed in a frame and covered by the Surface tabletop) |
| Microsoft Surface Water | Microsoft Surface Source (The Microsoft-supplied default attract application for Surface units. Customers can customize the background and reflection images in this application, but the water effects stay the same) |
| multi-surface | à plusieurs surfaces (A shape representing a union of all the positions in a set of surfaces) |
| palettized surface | surface palettisée (A surface in which each pixel color is represented by a number that indexes into a color palette) |
| procedural surface | surface procédurale (A surface with pixel RGB color and alpha values defined dynamically. Only the procedure used to compute the surface is stored in memory) |
| surface area | surface d'exposition (The number of ways in which a piece of software can be attacked) |
| surface chart | graphique en surface (A chart that shows a three dimensional surface that connects a set of data points. As in a topographic map, colors and patterns indicate areas that are in the same range of values) |
| surface picking | sélection de surface (The process of choosing which input surface contributes most to the output surface at a certain position on the output. Surface picking is often used with mouse operations to choose different actions in code that depend on which image you select. In cases where several images are alpha blended on the output point, the transform can use the alpha channel of each input sample to choose the input surface) |
| Surface Simulator | Simulateur Surface (A software application that developers can use to simulate Surface input from contacts, such as fingers and tagged objects, on a separate computer. Surface Simulator enables you to design and develop Surface applications without a Surface unit) |
| Surface unit | unité Surface (The set of hardware components that, together with the Microsoft Surface software, make up the Microsoft Surface product. At a high level, a Surface unit consists of a computer module and the Surface Vision System enclosed in a frame and covered by the Surface tabletop) |
| UI surface | surface d'interface utilisateur (The area in the new Windows UI where developers can place controls. The UI surface includes the app canvas, the app bar, a context menu, a flyout, and so on) |
