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Windows Software Developers

Companies which develop commercial software for Microsoft Windows. Obviously not a comprehensive list - mainly what I used myself:

• PKP's Software Archive. A local archive of some of the more useful shareware and evaluation software packages. Philip Pollett, University of Queensland.

• AllChars. Nice small freeware program giving access to international characters through the english, or any other, keyboard.
• Canyon Software. Drag and file software. Like Norton Commander for Windows. Many good features such as compare directories, but I've moved back to ZipMagic and Windows Explorer.
• Corel Corporation. Draw, Quatro-Pro, WordPerfect etc.
• Eudora. The most popular and best Windows email package. Most users will find the free Eudora Light to be sufficient, but Eudora Pro is also good value. The only serious competitor to Internet Explorer and Netscape mail services. Qualcomm.
• Hummingbird Communications. Producers of Columbus, eXceed and Maestro. PC to Unix and mainframe integration.
• Ipswitch. Windows-based shareware internet products, including terminal emulation and the popular WS_FTP. WS_FTP LE is not only free but the clear winner amongst ftp programs that I have used. Includes the full manual for WS_FTP online.
• MacKichan Software. Producers of Scientific Workplace and Scientific Word, word processing interfaces to LaTeX and Maple.
• Mijenix. Developers of Freespace and Zip Magic, wonderful programs for managing zip archives including on-the-fly compression of specified files and directories. Both products work seemlessly with Windows Explorer. Also of PowerDesk Utilities 98, a file management program which is has similarities with both Windows Explorer and Norton Commander.
• Microsoft Corporation. Includes online support for most Microsoft products - recommended.
  • Windows NT 4.0 versus Windows 95. Technical information for choosing an appropriate platform.
  • Windows NT Workstation. Hardware compatability lists.
  • Convert Netscape's bookmarks to Internet Explorer's favourites. Download a conversion program.
• Netscape. You probably have this link built-in, but I'm currently running Internet Explorer.
• QPC Software. Produces shareware QVT/Net software for terminal emulation, ftp and mail.
• Quarterdeck. Internet and utilities for Macintosh and Windows.
• QUEST. Qualcomm Enterprises Software Technologies, producers of Eudora email software. The Australian distributors are Lidcam Technology. Review of Eudora Pro 2.2 by David Cartwright, Network Week.
• SafetyNet. Producers of system security and anti-virus software.
• StarNet. Produce X-Win32, which provides excellent X-windows Unix emulation for Windows PCs.
• Symantec. Producers of well known PC and Mac utility programs, such as Norton AntiVirus, Desktop, Navigator, Utilities and Symantec Café.
  • Symantec Café. Java development tool for Windows. Review by Cye Waldman, WWWiz Magazine.
• TextPad. My choice of editor for Windows 95. Helios Software Solutions.
• TortoiseSVN. Windows Shell Extension for Subversion. Highly recommended.
• Travelling Software. Producers of LapLink, for copying files between PCs.
• Vertisoft Systems. Makers of Windows utilities Remove-It, Zip-It, Name-It Fix-It!
• Windows Commander. A shareware file manager program. A Windows 95 clone of the old Norton Commander. Christian Ghisler.
• WinZip. Popular Windows compression and uncompression program compatible with pkzip. Probably the best free zip manager for Windows. (The best competition, ZipMagic, is not free.)