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Microsoft Musical Instruments is a multimedia CD ROM encyclopedia of musical instruments from around the world. Part of the Microsoft Home family of multimedia products.
Microsoft Plus! was an add-on package to Windows that added desktop themes, screen savers, sound effects, power-toys, and other assorted goodies for the home user. Plus! 95 also included Internet Explorer 1.0, which was not included in all Windows 95 distributions.
The Microsoft "Saturn" screen saver is a plasma-like screen saver that uses 256-color VGA pallet rotation to create dazzling effects.
Microsoft Scenes is a screen saver that displays a slide show of photographs. It was packaged in several varieties with different themed galleries.
Microsoft SoundBits is a Windows 3.1 program that adds a variety of annoying sounds to actions such as opening a program, or minimizing a window. Because multimedia! It comes in three different flavors: Hanna-Barbera, Hollywood Movies, and Musical Sounds.
This is a promotional collection of documents in HTML format released in 1997 describing Microsoft's upcoming plans for future versions of Windows.
Wine Guide is a "multimedia" CD of wines from around the world. Enjoy some vintage wine with your vintage computing!
The Mindscape Complete Reference Library is a low end, and rather buggy, multimedia library targeted at the educational market. It included an encyclopedia, maps, almanac, dictionary, thesaurus, quotes, and a grammar style reference.
Mindscape Home Office Assistant is a searchable multimedia collection of home business related books and resources. It includes content such as maps, business document templates, and videos.
Mosbys Medical Encyclopedia is a multimedia CD-ROM containing information about medicines, illnesses, and anatomy.
A multimedia database, from Inroads Interactive, about all kinds of cats from all around the world. In the event of an Internet apocalypse, all you will need is this CD and a CD of cartoon farting clips.
Music Mentor is a comprehensive multimedia classical music tutorial, and includes a variety of sample midi files. The software includes a small built in sequencer, but also bundles Midisoft Recording Session for more advanced music editing.
MyDesk, from IOTA Industries Ltd, is a document search and organizer tool for scanned images. It incorporates Visioneer's PaperPort to OCR and index documents.
Menu Planner is a rudimentary low cost application that assists users in planning diet meals. It walks users through a series of "wizard" style selections, keeps track of calories and usage, and provides users with a list of possible meal plans.
Omnipage is an optical character recognition (scanned image) application that can export to a number of document formats. It was often bundled with scanners.
JASC Paint Shop Pro is a simple and easy to use bit-mapped graphics editor. It supports a wide variety of file formats, and photo manipulation functions that were comparable to PhotoShop. It has good support for editing 256 color palletized images that made it ideal for editing web graphics. It was first released in 1990 for Windows 3.0 as just "Paint Shop", and early versions gained popularity through the distribution of shareware releases. It lost popularity in 2003 when 8.0 was introduced with a redesigned UI and in 2004, JASC was acquired by Corel.
PaperPort is a document management system frequently bundled with scanners. It can OCR scanned documents and convert them to PDF.
PC Paint, from Mouse Systems Corporation, is a Macintosh MacPaint-like paint program for the PC. It was often bundled with Mouse Systems mice. Despite the similar sounding name and appearance, it is NOT related to Microsoft/ZSoft PC Paintbrush.
ZSoft PC Paintbrush is a bitmap drawing program visually similar to MacPaint. The earlier DOS versions were often bundled with Microsoft and Microsoft compatible mice, and were notable for supporting a huge variety of video adapters. It competed against Mouse Systems PC Paint (not related despite the similar name). ZSoft PC Paintbrush eventually became Microsoft Paintbrush included in Windows 3.x. For Microsoft's rebranded version see Microsoft Mouse and Microsoft Paintbrush
PerfectOffice is a bundle of office applications that competed head on with Microsoft Office.It bundles WordPerfect and a number of other office applications. This bundle started out as "Borland Office", was briefly known as "Novell PerfectOffice", then "Corel Office", and under Corel it later became "WordPerfect Office". (Not to be confused with the unrelated ~1990 groupware program, also called "WordPerfect Office")
PerfectWorks is an all-in-one word processing/spreadsheet/database/drawing program originally sold by WordPerfect Corp, and later by Novell.
Performance Now, from KnowledgePoint, is a Windows 3.1 automated tool for writing employee performance reports. It can exchange data with KnowledgePoint Descriptions Now.
Personal Attorney is a program that automatically generates a number of legal templates for use in word processors.
PFS:Business Plan is a business management program specifically tailored for creating company business plans. This involves market analysis, business forecasting, sales forecasts, balance sheets, cash flow, etc.
Softkey PharmAssist is a simple and easy to use CD-ROM reference of medications and health information.