IBM Small Business Suite (2000) 1 Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations Graphics Server Database Windows Linux

IBM Small Business Suite for Linux V1.6 is a Development Platform with a Set of Personal Productivity Tools. It was intended to simplify businesses transitioning to "e-business" by providing a foundation on which users could “webify” their businesses. It includes IBM and Lotus middleware products for Linux and Productivity tools for Windows.

• 1.x

IBM VisualAge C++ (1995) 2 Windows OS2 Unix

IBM VisualAge C++ is a set of development tools that include an IDE, compiler, debugger, code browser, and on-line help. VisualAge C++ is the successor of IBM C Set

• 4.x

IBM VisualAge Smalltalk (2000) 1 Windows OS2 Unix

VisualAge Smalltalk is a powerful application server and development environment based around the Smalltalk language.

• 5.5

InstallShield (1998) 1 Windows

InstallShield is a powerful and flexible development tool use to create application software installation packages. The installer is highly customizable, supporting custom actions based on environment and custom user prompts. It automates the installation of comment component libraries such as Data Access Objects or ODBC. It supports project integration with many development environments such as Microsoft Visual C++, Visual Basic, Borland C++, and Delphi.

• 5.x

Instant Accounting (1998) 0 Financial Windows

Sage Instant Accounting includes comprehensive invoicing, complete vat management, detailed customer records, and powerful reporting.

• 98

Instant Artist / Print Artist (1992) 11 Graphics Publishing Novelty Windows

Instant Artist, later renamed to Print Artist, is a greeting card and sign creation program that uses vectorized graphics. It was created by The Pixellite Group, the original authors of The Print Shop, and published in 1992 by Autodesk. It was later sold by Sierra On-line. It features a high quality set of generic reusable clip art. The clip art uses vector based technology that was also used in BannerMania.

• 6.0
• 8.0

IntelliPoint (1996) 9 Windows

IntelliPoint is a set of mouse driver software for Microsoft's IntelliMouse series mice. This software is redistributable but posted here for convenience.

• 2.x
• 3.x
• 4.x

Intellisync (2002) 1 Communications Windows

Pumatech Intellisync is corporate software designed to facilitate access to enterprise e-mail services with mobile devices.

• 5.x

Internet Explorer (1995) 259 Web Browser Windows Unix MacOS Mac OS X

Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser application created by Microsoft primarily for Microsoft Windows. It was initially based on Spyglass Mosaic. At various points, Internet Explorer was also available for MacOS, Solaris, and HP-UX.

• 5
• 5.5
• 6

InterVideo WinDVD (1999) 4 Video Media Player Windows

WinDVD is a DVD Player bundled with many DVD drives for Microsoft windows.

• 1.3.5c2

Keyboarding Pro (1998) 1 Education Windows

Keyboarding Pro is a program for Windows that teaches touch typing. It contains numerous lessons and some game activities.

• 1.0

KeyCAD Complete (1993) 4 Graphics Windows

KeyCad Complete, from Softkey, is a low-end computer aided design and drawing tool.

• 3.0 for Windows

LapLink (1987) 11 Communications Windows

LapLink, from Traveling Software Inc., enables users to easily and quickly move files between two DOS computers using only a serial null-modem cable or a special parallel port connector. No other hardware is needed. Laplink was extremely popular.during the late 80s and early 90s. It was infinitely easier to set up any two arbitrary PCs (often portables or laptops) with LapLink than other methods, such as DOS based networking. MS-DOS 6 bundled a similar set of file transfer tools called INTERLNK and INTERSVR.

• 2000
• Gold (9.0)

Logitech Mouseware (1987) 10 DOS Windows

Logitech mice and pointing devices were popular competition to Microsoft or Microsoft clone mice. Logitech mice often had extra features that required Logitech drivers, and early Logitech mice were not Microsoft or Mouse Systems protocol compatible.

• 8.x
• 9.x

Lotus 1-2-3 (1983) 68 Spreadsheet Windows

Lotus 1-2-3 was an early spreadsheet application available for MS-DOS. It became extremely popular in the late 1980s, displacing the former leader VisiCalc. Lotus had difficulties adapting 1-2-3 to the Windows environment, and was overtaken by Microsoft Excel. Spreadsheet functionality was also included in Lotus Symphony. Later versions were included in Lotus SmartSuite.

• 9.0 (Win)
• 9.1 (Win)
• 9.5 (Win)

Lotus Mail (1998) 0 Communications Windows

Lotus Mail was an interim product targeted at users of the older Lotus cc:Mail product, with the intent being that they would eventually switch to Lotus Notes/Domino. Lotus Mail features a user interface similar to cc:Mail, LDAP support, and powerful filtering options. Lotus Mail lacked support for HTML formatted e-mail (good!).

• 4.x

Lotus Notes (1993) 5 Communications PIM Windows MacOS

Lotus Notes is a powerful e-mail and collaboration tool. It was heavily used by large corporations. It was sometimes criticized for its complexity and bloat. Notes is a client server tool, and uses the Lotus Domino server (originally just called Lotus Notes server). Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino competed against Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange.

• 5.x

Lotus SmartSuite (1992) 50 Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations PIM Database Windows

IBM/Lotus SmartSuite is an office suite from Lotus software for Windows and OS/2. SmartSuite includes SmartCenter, 1-2-3, Word Pro, Freelance Graphics, Approach, Organizer, and ScreenCam.

• 9.0
• 9.1
• 9.5
• 9.6
• 9.7
• 9.8

Macromedia Fireworks (1999) 1 Graphics Windows

Macromedia Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. It is specifically designed to aid in making web graphics.

• 2.0
• 3.0
• 4.0

Mathematica (1994) 5 Mathematics Windows

Mathematica, from Wolfram Research, Inc., is a mathematical and scientific application to formulate complex equations. and Mathworks MatLab.

• 4.x

MatLab (1986) 5 Mathematics Windows

MatLab is a high speed, interactive programming utility for manipulating, calculating, and plotting complicated mathematical equations. It is considered easy to use for those familiar with typical algebra equations.

• 5.x

McAfee VirusScan (1995) 3 Utility DOS Windows OS2

McAfee VirusScan was a very popular and reliable virus scanner during the late 90s. Notably, they distributed a free shareware version of their product. VirusScan was often pre-loaded with OEM computers.

• 4.x
• 7.0

Micrografx Windows Draw (1986) 18 Graphics Windows

Micrografx Draw is a free-form vector based drawing program with a collection of clipart. The earlier versions are especially notable as being among the few programs produced for Microsoft Windows 1.x.

• 6.0

Microsoft Commerce Server (2000) 0 Windows

Microsoft Commerce Server is a server tool for quickly building and managing scalable e-commerce solutions. With this tool you can created a highly customized business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce web site.

• 2000

Microsoft Exchange (1996) 9 Chat PIM Server Windows

Exchange is a proprietary e-mail and groupware server software from Microsoft for Windows Server. The first version publicly sold was Exchange Server 4.0. The number 4.0 was used as it was a replacement for Microsoft Mail 3.x. At release, unlike other desktop/lan e-mail solutions it featured client/server communications rather than using file sharing, used a powerful messaging protocol, and stored all message and address book information in a database. It eventually evolved to include scheduling and many other functions. The Exchange Client (later Microsoft Outlook) supported rich text formatting, and the ability to create such things as e-mail forms.

• 2000