Thunderbird (2005) 0 Communications Windows Linux Mac OS X

Thunderbird is an e-mail client based on the integrated Netscape/Mozilla e-mail client. With the release Firefox, it was spun off in to a separate standalone product. It includes the same HTML rendering engine used in Firefox to render HTML formatted messages.

• 1.x
• 2.x

Tux Racer (2001) 3 Windows

Tux Racer is a 3D game where you play Tux the Penguin, or several other characters, in a snow-filled downhill race. license, however the final release was changed to closed source.

• 1.x

Ubuntu (2004) 9 Linux

Ubuntu is a distribution based on Debian Linux that includes many common application programs. For a time it was considered relatively easy to use and set up compared to other distributions.

• 4.10

Ultimate Deck and Landscape (2000) 1 Engineering Windows

Ultimate Deck and Landscape, from Punch! Software, is a simplified 3D CAD program that enables one to easily design custom deck layouts and landscape layouts. It provides a 3D-rendered view with the ability to "walk around" so you can easily view it from all angles. It can also keep track of general costs for all of the elements used in your design.

• 3.x

ViaGrafix - Programming in Visual Cpp (1997) 0 Windows

ViaGrafix Programming in Visual C++ is a multimedia CD-ROM tutorial teaching how to use Microsoft Visual C++.

• 1997

ViaVoice (1997) 0 Utility Novelty Windows

ViaVoice is a voice recognition program from IBM. It was available in a number of different languages. It was based on the previous VoiceType product Helloooo computer!

• 4.x
• 98

Virex (1998) 0 Utility Windows

Virex is another of the 1990's who-owns-it-this-week products. Originally a virus scanner and disk utility set for Macintosh and PC from Microcom, who then became Datawatch, sold the Macintosh version of Virex to Dr. Solomon's. In 1998 all of this was bought out by Network Associates - a merger of McAfee and Network General Corp.

• 5.x (Mac)

Virtual PC (1996) 38 Virtualization Windows OS2 MacOS

Virtual PC started off originally as an x86 emulator for PowerPC Macintosh to run MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Connectix, the company that made it, was purchased by Microsoft. Virtual PC was then retooled into a virtualization tool for x86 systems. Microsoft discontinued Virtual PC in favor of a server-oriented virtualization product called Hyper-V.

• 4.x
• 2004
• 2007

VirtualBox (2007) 7 Virtualization Windows

VirtualBox is an an x86 virtualization program.

• 1.x

Visio (1992) 38 Graphics Windows

Visio is a flow-chart diagramming program for Microsoft Windows originally from Shapeware/Visio Corp. Visio was specifically designed as a flow charting tool rather than a generic drawing tool. It featured easy to use drag-and-drop diagram creation, and shipped with a wide variety of stencils. In 2000 Visio Corp was acquired by Microsoft. It competed with Aldus Intellidraw and Micrografx Snapgraphics and Meta Software's MetaDesign.

• 5.0
• 2000

Vistapro (1992) 4 Graphics Other Windows

Vistapro is a three-dimensional landscape simulation program. Using U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) files, Vistapro can accurately recreate real world landscapes in vivid detail. It can also create fractal based landscapes, and provides many customizations. Vistapro originated on the Amiga and also had a Macintosh port.

• 4.x (Win)

Visual C++ (1993) 100 Windows

Visual C++ is a greatly enhanced and re-branded version of Microsoft C/C++. The Visual C++ line is primarily aimed at Windows development on 386 CPUs. 5.0 and later were bundled as a part of Microsoft Visual Studio.

• 5.x
• 6.x

Visual Cafe for Java (1997) 3 Windows

Visual Cafe for Java Professional Development Edition is designed to maximize the productivity and performance of Java development. There were versions for both Windows and Macintosh.

• 2.0

Visual J++ (1996) 2 Windows

Visual J++ was Microsoft's proprietary dialect of the Java programming language which ran on Windows under Microsoft's Java virtual machine. It was part of the Microsoft Visual Studio product lineup. It included an Integrated Development Environment and many language extensions, such as the ability to make efficient use of the Win32 APIs. The primary advantage of J++ and Java was the ability to run on a byte-code virtual machine (pioneered by languages like the UCSD P-System ) at a time when Intel was threatening to cut off x86 compatibility in favor of 64-bit instruction sets.

• 6.0

VMware (1999) 7 Virtualization Windows

VMWare is a commercial CPU virtualizer for commodity x86 systems. Unlike a PC emulator, CPU instructions are not interpreted, but rather run directly on the host CPU alongside any other native operating system and applications.

• 1.0

VoiceType (1997) 0 Utility Novelty Windows

VoiceType is a voice dictation and speech recognition program from IBM. Compared to other products, VoiceType was considered fairly fast and accurate, but required several hours of "training" to achieve that. It was aimed at a fairly niche voice dictation market.

• 3.x
• Simply Speaking 3.x

Watcom C/C++ (1989) 5 DOS Windows

The Watcom C/C++ is a powerful compiler for DOS, Windows, and OS/2. Its key selling point was superior cross platform support. It supported DOS, extended DOS 32-bit, Win16, Win32, and OS/2. Notably, it was used to produce the video game DOOM as a 32-bit DOS extended program.

• 11.0
• OpenWatcom

Watcom Fortran (1995) 1 Windows

Watcom Fortran is a powerful Fortran compiler for Windows that includes an integrated development environment, debugger, and profiler.

• 11.0

Winamp (2007) 2 Audio Media Player Windows

A media player for Windows. It really whips the Llama's ass.

• 5.x

Windows 2000 (1999) 660 Windows

Windows 2000 was a modernization of Windows NT 4.0 which brought many of the desktop changes, including Active Desktop, to Microsoft's Windows NT line. Four editions of Windows 2000 were released, Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Datacenter Server. Improvements over NT 4.0 include new Accessibility Options, increased language and locale support, NTFS 3.0, the Encrypting File System and Active Directory. Windows 2000 was first planned to replace both Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 although using the NT kernel for consumer and professional editions would not happen until Windows 2000's successor, Windows XP. | 1.0 | 2.x | 3.x | NT 3.x | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | ME | All |

• Patches
• Final

Windows 2000 High Encryption Pack (1999) 1 Windows

The Microsoft Windows 2000 High Encryption pack adds 128-bit encryption to Windows 2000 RTM. It was provided as a separate package from Windows 2000 RTM due to silly crypto export laws.

• Win2000

Windows 95 (1994) 1280 Windows

Windows 95 offered, at long last, a well designed document-oriented desktop shell that worked much like the 1984 Macintosh Finder. It also included a new way of finding installed applications through a "Start" menu. And it included the same networking abilities as Windows for Workgroups. | 1.0 | 2.x | 3.x | NT 3.x | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | ME | All |

• OSR 2.1
• OSR 2.5

Windows 98 (1998) 1516 Windows

Windows 98 is a continuation of the Windows 95 product. The major change is an insanely heavy focus on web integration. The help system, many applications, and even the desktop are redesigned to make use of Internet Explorer. Windows 98 runs on top of the same "MS-DOS 7.1" with FAT32 support as Windows 95 OSR2, and it includes support for USB. Windows 98 had two major releases - a First Edition and a Second Edition. It was followed up by Windows ME. | 1.0 | 2.x | 3.x | NT 3.x | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | ME | All |

• First Edition
• 98 SE Beta
• Second Edition

Windows Longhorn (2001) 438 Windows

Windows Longhorn was the pre-release codename for Windows Vista and was the successor to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (built from NT 5.2 codebase). Development on the OS started in May 2001 and went through two unique development cycles separated by a development reset in 2004. The reset occurred as Microsoft's development staff had lost focus on the project as a whole and what was required to be done in order to bring it to market. Features were being written into the OS at an alarming rate with a significant lack of QA or vision of true requirement. This combined with Microsoft's trustworthy computing initiatives caused the reset.

• Pre-Reset
• Post-Reset

Windows ME (2000) 380 Windows

Windows Millennium Edition (internally Windows 4.90) was the last in the line of DOS-based Windows products. Like Windows 95 and Windows 98 it used the same hybrid 16/32 bit kernel that ran on top of a bundled version of DOS (MS-DOS 8.0). | 1.0 | 2.x | 3.x | NT 3.x | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | ME | All |

• Beta
• Final