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Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft, designed to help users create professional-quality publications and marketing materials without requiring extensive graphic... Alternatives: Scribus OpenOffice Draw
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0
For any business that need to keep track of customers - Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the perfect solution, if you already have a Microsoft environment. Integrates with the Microsoft Office applications... Alternatives: SugarCRM vtiger CRM
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project, a stalwart in the project management software arena, has been assisting project managers in planning, executing, and controlling projects of all sizes since its launch in... Alternatives: Open Workbench GanttProject OpenProj
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio stands out as a leading diagramming and vector graphics application, part of the broader Microsoft 365 suite. Since its initial release in 1992, Visio has been empowering... Alternatives: Dia OpenOffice Draw Kivio StarUML ArgoUML Draw.io
Microsoft Outlook 2003
As part of the Microsoft Office suit or offered in your enterprise if they are using Microsoft's mail server - Outlook is difficult not notice. Microsoft Outlook is a mail client that also integrates... Alternatives: Thunderbird Evolution SeaMonkey
Microsoft Excel 2010
The lack of competition for spreadsheet applications and the massive deployment of Microsoft Office makes Excel the most used application of its type. Apart from basic spreadsheet features - Excel... Alternatives: Gnumeric OpenOffice Calc
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
For messaging and collaboration Microsoft Exchange Server is one of the most used platforms. Together for Microsoft Outlook this is a powerful solution for enterprises of any size. Alternatives: Open-Xchange Zimbra
Microsoft Money 2007
Microsoft Money (MSMoney) an accounting software application that helps you keep track of all of your accounts both banks, credit and even investments. Its budget feature keeps track of bills due and... Alternatives: GnuCash Grisbi jGnash GFP
Microsoft Remote Desktop for Windows
Microsoft Remote Desktop is a feature that comes free with Windows XP Professional. It allows you to control a computer remotely either through a LAN or using the internet. It can be used for both... Alternatives: VNC OSXvnc
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Active Directory ships as a component of Windows Server. Active Directory lets you manage many different type of components in your enterprise e.g. users. Microsoft Active Directory... Alternatives: 389 Directory Server Apache Directory Server
Microsoft Powerpoint 2003
Powerpoint is the most used presention software on the market. It comes as part of the Microsoft Office suite as one of the core applications. Powerpoint has many advanced features but is not always... Alternatives: OpenOffice Impress KPresenter
Microsoft Windows Media Player 11
Available as freeware from Microsoft - Windows Media Player is the default choice when it comes to playing either music or video on the Microsoft Windows platforms. Windows Media Player also allows... Alternatives: VLC media player Helix Player MPlayer Amarok Miro Songbird musikCube
Microsoft Word 2003
Word is the number one most widely used word processor - home users, academic institutions and a huge number of enterprises all use Microsoft Word. Word has continued to evolve through the years and... Alternatives: OpenOffice Writer AbiWord KWord
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
As backend for Microsoft products that require a database - Microsoft SQL Server is available to make integration and development simple and easy. SQL Server is today considered one of the top 3... Alternatives: MySQL PostgreSQL Firebird Ingres 2006 Community Edition
Microsoft Outlook Express 6
Microsoft Outlook Express ships as part of the Microsoft Internet Explorer freeware package. Outlook Express provides basic internet mail support, but works as a usenet news reader. As a mail client... Alternatives: Thunderbird
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0
As part of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 you find Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), which is Microsoft's web server. Fits organizations of all sizes - and fulfills any requirements for... Alternatives: Apache HTTP Server
Microsoft Movie Maker 2.1
Even though Microsoft Movie Maker is freeware bundled with Windows XP - it is still a powerful video editor for home users and can even be used by for semi-professional video productions. Imports... Alternatives: Kino Avidemux VirtualDub Cinelerra
Microsoft MSN Messenger 7.5
Not the first, but the probably the most used instant messenger product available. MSN Messenger, that is offered by Microsoft as freeware, has grown from a simple IM product into a trend-setting... Alternatives: Pidgin Miranda IM Adium PlanetaMessenger.org aMSN Psi Emesene
Microsoft Frontpage 2003
Microsoft Frontpage is a wysiwyg HTML editor - well-know mainly through Microsoft's brand and massive advertising. However, Frontpage has never really been the choice of professionals, but remained... Alternatives: Nvu SeaMonkey Bluefish Quanta Plus KompoZer Aptana Amaya
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
For professional development for the Microsoft platforms - Visual Studio provides the tools for it. Alternatives: SharpDevelop MonoDevelop Code::Blocks Qt Creator
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office Sharepoint server (MOSS) runs on top of Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS), adding core features and and user web parts. Essentially, it's a workflow engine and business intelligence... Alternatives: Alfresco MindTouch Core
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) transforms your PC into a media center and moves it into the livingroom. MCE is acutally an alternative to your VCR since it allows you to user your PC... Alternatives: MythTV MediaPortal Freevo
Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Many people in their forties remember the first Microsoft Flight Simulator, which seemed a miracle of technology when introduced in 1983. Their latest version of Flight Simulator has new aircrafts... Alternatives: FlightGear
Microsoft Windows XP
Windows has for a long time been by far the most used operating system for PCs. Through the years Microsoft has continued to develop and improve their operating system. The latest version has many... Alternatives: Ubuntu Linux Fedora SUSE Linux
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Most likely the most wide spread browser on the planet - mainly due to the fact that it is comes as freeware with Microsoft Windows. However, still a very effect tool that have matured over the past... Alternatives: SeaMonkey Firefox Amaya Chrome
Microsoft OneNote 2010
At last, someone has put an end to endless sticky notes and lost slips of paper! Microsoft's Office OneNote allows you to gather all your information in text, pictures, audio and video recordings... Alternatives: WikidPad Zim Tomboy zNotes RedNotebook NeverNote
Microsoft Access 2010
Microsoft's versatile tool for creating database driven application - or simply just maintain your data. Even though Access has its own embedded database engine - it is also able to connect to other... Alternatives: OpenOffice Base Kexi WaveMaker Glom
Microsoft Office 2010
Office is a collection of Microsoft's business applications including: Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Publisher, Visio and Powerpoint. The suite offers good integration between all of its products -... Alternatives: OpenOffice NeoOffice
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
Microsoft's Virtual PC allows you to create virtual computers on your own Windows desktop. Each of these computers has all the hardware of a physical computer, enabling you to run each virtual PC as... Alternatives: Xen OpenVZ Cooperative Linux VirtualBox
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
.NET is a framework made for application development and web services. It allows you to use components from multiple programming languages and combine them. Also the framework provides a large class... Alternatives: Mono
Microsoft NetMeeting 3.01
NetMeeting is Microsoft's desktop videoconferencing tool that allows people to have face to face meetings via computer. If you have Windows 2000 or XP, you can take advantage of this marvelous... Alternatives: Ekiga
SmartDraw
SmartDraw VP is the world's first visual processor. In the same way that a word processor automatically formats documents, SmartDraw VP automatically formats your visuals as you create them, making... Alternatives: Dia OpenOffice Draw Kivio StarUML ArgoUML Draw.io
WaveMaker
WaveMaker is a visual, drag and drop development platform for building web applications. WaveMaker generates standard Java applications that can run in any Java server. Applications created by...
OpenProj 1.4
OpenProj is a new open source solution for project management. It's simple user interface is very similar to that of Microsoft Project. OpenProj even let's you import you existing Microsoft Project...
Open Workbench 1.1.6
Aiming to be a direct alternative to Microsoft Project - Open Workbench provides project planning and scheduling together with resource management. Open Workbench even offers import of Microsoft...
XML Copy Editor 1.2
XML Copy Editor is a versatile XML editor primarily focused on text editing with XML files. However, XML Copy Editor provides many other features including validation of DTD and XML schemas - as well...
MindManager 6
MindManager is the most popular mind mapping on the market. For brainstorming, capturing ideas and then analyzing all of the collected information. It can be used for all projects from newsletters,... Alternatives: FreeMind XMind
ClamWin 0.93
ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It features high detection rates, scheduler, automatic download of virus database updates and a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. By...
Oracle SQL Developer 1.1
Oracle SQL Developer is freeware product from Oracle for managing databases. It has a great graphical user interface (gui) which makes manipulating of data a simple task. Also browsing database... Alternatives: TOra SQLTools
AbiWord 2.6
This word processor strives to have a user-interface very similar to Microsoft Word - in order for user to easily migrate to AbiWord. It also support import and export of Microsoft Word documents and...
StarUML 5.0
StarUML is a great open source UML application. Supporting UML 2.0 and MDA (Model Driven Architecture) StarUML let's you work with all related diagrams. Code generation can be done for Java, C++ and...
InfraRecorder 0.50
InfraRecorder is an easy to use CD and DVD burner application. It supports virtually all different formats including rewritable disc, multi-session disc and dual-layer DVDs. Also audio CDs can be...
Paint.NET
Paint.NET, initially developed as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, has evolved into a powerful yet simple tool for image and photo editing. Launched in 2004,... Alternatives: Gimp Krita Seashore Pinta
vtiger CRM
VTiger CRM (customer relationship management) is software intended for small and medium sized businesses that have a need to manage their customer base, customer service, marketing department and...
GnuCash 2.3
GnuCash is open source personal and small-business financial accounting software. Keep track of income and expenses from all of your accounts. The small-business features allow you to keep track of...
Notepad++ 5.2
Notepad++ is an excellent open source replacement for Microsoft Notepad, but has many more features that lets it compete with commercial text editors for both development and web design. Some...
GanttProject
GanttProject is a project scheduling and management tool which also offers resource management. Even importing and exporting Microsoft Project files is supported.
VNC
VNC is an open source remote desktop application. It allows you to control a graphical user session on a machine remotely through the network. Both VNC server and client runs on multiple platforms....
IBM Rational Rose
Rational Rose is a family of UML (Unified Modeling Language) products from IBM. Each of the products are either targeted different developer roles or different platforms/programming languages. For... Alternatives: StarUML ArgoUML
7-Zip 4.57
7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio. It supports the following formats for packing/unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR - and the following for unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH,...
Glom
Glom is an advanced database system and user interface designer with lots of high-level features. Its advantages include its simplicity and nearly no programming requirements. Loosely based on...
Xming 7.3
Xming is a small and fast X-Windows Server for Microsoft Windows. But even though it is small - it is still simple to use and has the full set of features your would see in commercial products. Used...
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
Citrix Presentation Server (previously known as Citrix MetaFrame) is an advanced remote display application. It makes it possible to run application remotely on large servers, thus making better use... Alternatives: VNC OSXvnc
Evolution
Evolution is an e-mail client built from scratch to be an alternative to Outlook on Linux. Today it has evolved beyond that - and provides stable functionaly through typical e-mail features. But...
Alfresco 2.1
Alfresco (Italian for "outdoors") is an open source, less expensive alternative to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. The plentiful ECM (enterprise content management) features of Alfresco rival the...
Hummingbird Exceed 2007
Hummingbird Exceed has been one of the X server market leaders for close to 20 years. And even today Exceed continue to be widely deployed and remain of the best performing X servers. It supports all... Alternatives: Xming
Mozilla Firefox
Despite a very hard effort Mozilla Firefox has always been 2nd on the browser market - only surpassed by Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, it is gaining market share rapidly - and aims to take...
SugarCRM 5.2
SugarCRM is an open source crm (customer relation management) system, which helps you to track and share opportunities, manage existing customers, keep track of your pipeline and much more. Has...
OpenOffice Calc 3.0
OpenOffice Calc is a superb open source spreadsheet application. Whether you are a novice spreadsheet user - or require more advanced features such as data mining or large complex calculations -...
Xmanager 2
Xmanager is a excellent PC X server which runs on Microsoft Windows. Xmanager features Xbrowser that makes connecting to your X workstations as easy as navigating files and other networked Windows... Alternatives: Xming
EMS SQL Manager for MySQL 2007
SQL Manager for MySQL makes work with any MySQL database a simple task. No more need for command-line tool 'mysql'. Everything can be controlled directly from within SQL Manager - all database... Alternatives: HeidiSQL SQuirreL SQL Client
389 Directory Server
389 Directory Server (previously known as Fedora Directory Server) is an open source LDAP server with many advanced features and built for both high performance and reliability. The 389 Directory...
Umbraco 3.0.1
Umbraco is a unique Content Management Systems (CMS) written in ASP.NET. First of all Umbraco allows designers to have completely free hands in terms of layout, and thus making sure that your site is...
RedDot CMS 7.5
Whether you are designing your company's website, intranet or extranet - RedDot CMS is a professional tool with a simple interface. Like many other professional content management systems it... Alternatives: Umbraco SilverStripe Joomla Drupal Typo3 Concrete5 TextPattern
Emesene 1.0.1
Emesene is a MSN Messenger clone, which primary goal is to support all features of the Windows Live Messenger Network (WLM). However, it does have a few extra features - besides trying to be...
Amanda
Amanda is a network backup solution in which the Amanda server runs on a single machine on your LAN - multiple clients can then connect to backup their local data. The clients can run almost any...
Pinta
Pinta is an open-source, cross-platform painting and image editing program designed to serve as an easily accessible tool for both novices and experienced artists. Inspired by Paint.NET, Pinta...
NeoOffice 3.0
NeoOffice is a special version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. Even though OpenOffice is available for Mac OS X, it requires that you run X11 (X Windows Systems) on your computer. Thus it does not...
StarNet X-Win32 version 8
StarNet's X-Win32 is among the top selling X-Windows servers for Microsoft Windows. X-Win32 allows you to run the display of X-Windows based applications from virtually any Unix host on your Windows... Alternatives: Xming
IrfanView
IrfanView is a free, small, fast graphic viewer whose goal is to be simple for beginners while meeting the power needs of professionals. It allows you to view and change graphic images to your own... Alternatives: Cornice Imgv
UltraCompare 4.20
UltraCompare is a great tool for developer when it comes to comparing and merging source code. And if you are already using UltraEdit this is a natural choice since it integrates seamlessly into it.... Alternatives: WinMerge
Mono
Mono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It most powerful feature is that Mono allow the execution of .NET application on almost any platform - including (but not...
Sunbelt iHateSpam 4.0
iHateSpam is one of the most efficient anti-spam products on the market. It detects and removes almost all spam that tries to enter you e-mail inbox. Phising attempts are also rejected to avoid you... Alternatives: Thunderbird Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (assp)
SyncToy
SyncToy, a free download from Microsoft, is an easy to use application that allows you to manage files between folders and computers. You can copy, rename, delete or move files of any type whether... Alternatives: Create Synchronicity
Open source media center alternatives
All of us knows about Microsoft Window XP Media Center Edition (MCE), but what actually makes up a full featured media center? There are a couple of main features and then a few less important ones....
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