What does GUID stand for?

Globally unique identifiers are recommended but not required, and there is more flexibility for naming, especially useful for case files.

Making a Difference for Asset Visibility, Management, and Accountability" (Defense AT & L, May-June 2007) explained the Department of Defense program for Item Unique Identification--IUID--a capability that marks items with a globally unique identifier using high-capacity machine-readable 2-D marking.

When this occurs the CAS provides a globally unique identifier for the resource being uploaded.

When people installed the software, it asked for information such as their e-mail address and ZIP code and assigned the player a serial number, called a Globally Unique Identifier.

Yet Microsoft officials told the Times that they had never considered the privacy implications of the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), and Bennett assured Reuters that the bug would be fixed in an update sometime in the next few months.

Item Unique Identification, or IUID, is a capability that requires a globally unique identifier for items, along with the ability to consistently and accurately distinguish any item from another by using high-capacity machine-readable 2-D marking.

COM classes are identified by a Globally Unique Identifier or GUID--a 128-bit number-guaranteed unique worldwide.

On Thursday, after further studying the "registration wizard" - the software module that enables customers to register their copies of the Windows 98 operating system for support and updates - Smith discovered that the number, known as a Globally Unique Identifier, was being transmitted to Microsoft as part of a list of registration information that generally includes the owner's name, address, phone number, certain other demographic information and details about what hardware and software are on or attached to the user's computer.