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MS DOS

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

MS-DOS

MS-DOS (short for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the dominant operating system for computers based on the Intel 8086 family of microprocessors, particularly the IBM PC and compatibles, during the 1980s. It was gradually replaced on consumer desktop computers by operating systems offering a graphical user interface (GUI), in particular by various generations of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It was originally known as QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and 86-DOS.

MS-DOS was originally released in 1981 and had eight major versions released before Microsoft stopped development in 2000. It was the key product in Microsoft's growth from a programming languages company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.

Pro/Engineer

Company / developer:
  PTC

Pro/Engineer

Pro/ENGINEER is the standard in 3D product design, featuring industry-leading productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with your industry and company standards. Integrated Pro/ENGINEER CAD/CAM/CAE solutions allow you to design faster than ever, while maximizing innovation and quality to ultimately create exceptional products.

Benefits:

• Unsurpassed geometry creation capabilities allow superior product differentiation and manufacturability
• Fully integrated applications allow you to develop everything from concept to manufacturing within one application
• Automatic propagation of design changes to all downstream deliverables allows you to design with confidence
• Complete virtual simulation capabilities enable you to improve product performance and exceed product quality goals
• Automated generation of associative tooling design, assembly instructions, and machine code allow for maximum production efficiency

3GP/iPod/PSP/MP4 Converter

Company / developer:
  Boilsoft

• Convert any video file to 3GP file.
• Convert any video file to iPod MP4 file.
• Convert any video file to PSP MP4 file
• Convert any video file to MP4.
• Very User-friendly interface.
  

Windows 3.x

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows 3.x

Windows 3.0 (1990) and Windows 3.1 (1992) improved the design, mostly because of virtual memory and loadable virtual device drivers (VxDs), which allowed them to share arbitrary devices between multitasked DOS Windows. Also, Windows applications could now run in protected mode (when Windows was running in Standard or 386 Enhanced Mode), which gave them access to several megabytes of memory and removed the obligation to participate in the software virtual memory scheme. They still ran inside the same address space, where the segmented memory provided a degree of protection, and multi-tasked cooperatively. For Windows 3.0, Microsoft also rewrote critical operations from C into assembly, making this release faster and less memory-hungry than its predecessors.
Microsoft also released an update for Windows 3.1 which (aside from installing new files) changes the Windows version displayed in "About" dialog boxes to 3.11. Thus, Windows 3.11 isn't a standalone version of Windows, but rather a software update from Windows 3.1, much like modern Windows service packs. For those who did not own Windows 3.1, full disk sets of Windows 3.11 were available at the time. management.

dBASE

Company / developer:
  dataBased Intelligence, Inc.

dBASE

dBase was the first widely used database management system (DBMS) for microcomputers, published by Ashton-Tate for CP/M, and later on the Apple II, Apple Macintosh, UNIX, VMS, and IBM PC under DOS where it became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years. dBase was slow to transition successfully to Microsoft Windows and gradually lost market share to competitors such as Paradox, Clipper, FoxPro, and Microsoft Access. dBase was sold to Borland in 1991, which sold the rights to the product line in 1999 to the newly-formed dBase Inc. In 2004, dBase Inc. changed its name to dataBased Intelligence, Inc.

Starting in the mid 1980s many other companies produced their own dialects or variations on the product and language. These included FoxPro (now Visual FoxPro), Arago, Force, dbFast, dbXL, Quicksilver, Clipper, Xbase++, FlagShip, Recital's Terminal Developer, and Harbour/XHarbour. Together these are informally referred to as xBase. dBase's underlying file format, the .dbf file, is widely used in many other applications needing a simple format to store structured data.

dBase has evolved into a modern object oriented language that runs on 32 bit Windows. It can be used to build a wide variety of applications including web apps hosted on a Windows server, Windows rich client applications, and middleware applications. dBase can access most modern database engines via ODBC drivers.

dBase features an IDE with a Command Window and Navigator, a just in time compiler, a preprocessor, a virtual machine interpreter, a linker for creating dBase application .exe's, a freely available runtime engine, and numerous two-way GUI design tools including a Form Designer, Report Designer, Menu Designer, Label Designer, Datamodule Designer, SQL Query Designer, and Table Designer. Two-way Tools refers to the ability to switch back and forth between using a GUI design tool and the Source Code Editor. Other tools include a Source Code Editor, a Project Manager that simplifies building and deploying a dBase application, and an integrated Debugger. dBase features structured exception handling and has many built-in classes that can be subclassed via single inheritance. There are visual classes, data classes, and many other supporting classes. Visual classes include Form, SubForm, Notebook, Container, Entryfield, RadioButton, SpinBox, ComboBox, ListBox, PushButton, Image, Grid, ScrollBar, ActiveX, Report, ReportViewer, Text, TextLabel and many others. Database classes include Session, Database, Query, Rowset, Field, StoredProc and Datamodule classes. Other classes include File, String, Math, Array, Date, Exception, Object and others. dBase objects can be dynamically subclassed by adding new properties to them at runtime.

dBASE Plus is a rapid application development toolset that includes a modern object oriented programming language (dBL) that runs on 32 bit versions of Microsoft Windows. It can be used to build a wide variety of applications including web applications, rich client applications, middleware applications, and server based applications. dBASE Plus has robust database access support and can access most modern database engines including Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, Informix, DB2, InterBase, FireBird, Pervasive SQL, Microsoft Access and other databases that can be accessed via ODBC. In addition dBASE Plus supports access to its native .dbf tables (levels 3, 4, 5, and 7) as well as Paradox (.db) tables, FoxPro and Visual FoxPro tables.

Ulead® PhotoImpact®

Company / developer:
  Corel Corporation

Ulead® PhotoImpact®

Zinio reader

Company / developer:
  Zinio Systems

Microsoft Word

Company / developer:
  Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Office Word is a powerful authoring program that gives you the ability to create and share documents by combining a comprehensive set of writing tools with the easy-to-use Microsoft Office Fluent user interface.

Microsoft Office Word helps information workers create professional-looking content more quickly than ever before. With a host of tools, you can quickly construct documents from predefined parts and styles, as well as compose and publish blogs directly from within Word. Office Word the ideal choice for building integrated document management solutions.

Alpha Five

Company / developer:
  Alpha Software, Inc.

The Alpha Five Web Publishing pages are similar in nature to .ASP and .PHP pages which also are a combination of HTML and code designed to produce the HTML sent to users.
Alpha Five provides a simpler, more attractive, and more powerful alternative. The Alpha Five has a unique advantage - it writes the code for you. Instead of creating your application in a code editor, you use the Alpha Five component builder.

Pro/Engineer

Company / developer:
  PTC

Pro/Engineer

Pro/ENGINEER is the standard in 3D product design, featuring industry-leading productivity tools that promote best practices in design while ensuring compliance with your industry and company standards. Integrated Pro/ENGINEER CAD/CAM/CAE solutions allow you to design faster than ever, while maximizing innovation and quality to ultimately create exceptional products.

Benefits:

• Unsurpassed geometry creation capabilities allow superior product differentiation and manufacturability
• Fully integrated applications allow you to develop everything from concept to manufacturing within one application
• Automatic propagation of design changes to all downstream deliverables allows you to design with confidence
• Complete virtual simulation capabilities enable you to improve product performance and exceed product quality goals
• Automated generation of associative tooling design, assembly instructions, and machine code allow for maximum production efficiency