Aladdin Expander 1 Archive Windows

Aladdin Expander is the Microsoft Windows port of Stuffit Expander, a tool for decompressing Macintosh SIT files. It is important to note that it is of limited use on Windows, as the Windows version will not preserve Macintosh resource forks or creator type information, rendering many file types unusable.

• 5.x
• 6.x

America Online (1992) 1 Web Browser Chat DOS Windows

America Online was a proprietary dial-up online service that eventually grew to offerer Internet access. In the mid 1990s AOL was very heavily promoted. Every month or two, you were sure to get a free AOL floppy disk or CD-ROM in the mail. AOL originated as PC-Link.

• 1.x
• 2.x
• 3.0

AOL Instant Messenger (1998) 0 Chat Windows

AOL Instant Messenger is a once-popular messaging client popularized by America Online.

• 1.0

Cakewalk (1993) 4 Audio Windows

Cakewalk is a MIDI music authoring and editing tool. The earlier versions are considered among the best MIDI tools that ever existed. Microsoft Windows. limited music notation and a built-in scripting language called CAL (Cakewalk Application Language). limited functionality OEM-bundled "Express" editions.

• 2.x
• 3.x

DVMpeg (1999) 0 Video Audio Windows

DVMpeg, from Darim Vision Co., Ltd, is an MPEG encoder that can convert Windows AVI files to MPEG.

• 5.0

Encore (1991) 2 Audio DOS Windows

Encore, from Passport Designs, is a music program that originated on the Atari ST in 1984. It enables writing and editing music using traditional notation format. It can import and export to a number of sources and supports MIDI playback. enable items in the musical score to be added and edited using the mouse.

• 2.x
• 3.x

GoldWave Audio Editor (1995) 1 Audio Windows

Audio editor for Windows GoldWave is a digital audio editor for Windows 3.1. It has realtime oscilloscopes, intelligent editing, and numerous effects such as echo, flange, distortion, mechanize, and reverse. The intuitive user interface makes GoldWave easy to learn and use.

• 3.x

Microsoft Exchange (1996) 7 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.

• 4.0
• 5.5
• 2000

MidiSoft Recording Session (1992) 0 Audio Windows

MidiSoft Recording Session is a MIDI sequencer that uses a music notation based interface. It was sometimes bundled with sound cards.

• 1.07
• 1.12

mIRC (2001) 4 Chat Windows

mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat client for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows with it's own unique scripting language.

• 5.x

MSN Messenger (2004) 0 Chat Windows

An old instant messenger platform from Microsoft since superseded by Skype. The MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger) servers have since been shut down from Microsoft, so don't expect this software to work anymore. Software is for historical purposes only.

• 7.x

QuickTime (1996) 4 Video Audio Media Player Windows

QuickTime is Apple's Image, Video and Audio framework. QuickTime is freely redistributable, and is provided here only as a convenience. Some applications on Winworld may require that this software be installed first.

• 2.x
• 4.x

SharePoint (2009) 0 Chat PIM Server Database Windows

Microsoft SharePoint is a Windows Server hosted collabaration tool allowing for document management, custom lists, workflows, wiki-style editing within an organization, web applications and plugins, extranets and intranets.

• 2010

Stacker (1991) 3 Utility Archive DOS Windows

Stacker, from Stack Electronics, was a hard drive compression tool. It was wildly popular until Microsoft virtually eliminated the third party market for this by including their own drive compression tool with MS-DOS 6. and Expandz! Plus.

• 4.0 (DOS)

Ulead MediaStudio (1996) 0 Graphics Video Audio Windows

MediaStudio is a suite of multimedia editing tools. It includes a video editor, video capture tool, image editor, sound editor, and morphing tool. Also supports video conversion, batch mode operation, and overlays.

• 2.0

Winamp (2007) 1 Audio Media Player Windows

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

• 5.x

Windows Media Center (2004) 40 Video Audio Media Player Windows

Windows Media Center was a full-screen media player and video recorder designed for use on home theater PCs. It competed against digital recording devices like the Tivo.

• 6.1 (7)
• 2005 (XP)

Windows Media Player (1998) 3 Video Audio Media Player Windows

The media player built-into Windows

• 5.2
• 11

WinPlay (1997) 4 Audio Media Player Windows

WinPlay3 was the first real-time MP3 audio player for PCs running Windows.

• 2.3b5

WinZip (1997) 12 Utility Archive Windows

WinZip is an archive utility for Microsoft Windows that creates and extracts ZIP files, along with a degree of support for MS Cabinet (cab), ISO, JAR, TAR, and GZipped files.

• 6.x
• 7.0