Microsoft vs Non Microsoft Applications

By SickWorm
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neuralshock

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My desktop and laptop software usage:

Web: Firefox 0.8

Mail: Thunderbird 0.5 + Webmail

Audio: Foobar 2000 0.8 RC6

Office: OpenOffice 1.1

Video: WMP9 (suggestions here? I think it's enough when coupled with FFDshow)

Firewall: ZoneAlarm Free Edition (I think this is better than MS's one, though I'm not really confident)

IM / Chat: MSN Messenger + mIRC

CD Burning: Nero 6 (the cd-writing support in windows XP is crap, IMO)

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IGx89

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It seems that Microsoft products are not used so much as others do ! For example a saw many times Firefox in the topics, also iTunes. These products are going to break down download servers! lol :p

That's also probably because this whole forum has much more of an anti-MS tilt than the "real world" :).

I use almost solely Microsoft software; not because I love MS, but because the alternatives aren't that appealing to me. I used to use Trillain, but then switched to just MSN when MSN 5/6 came out, and most of my contacts stopped using ICQ and AIM. MSN6 w/ MsgPlus is almost unbeatable, especially with the built-in skin and small games. I also use Hotmail for e-mail, and have been (with the same e-mail address!) for the last ~5 years :). Since Hotmail had that facelift a few months ago, I've also gotten a lot less junk mail -- in my junk mail folder (I've always been on exclusive)! They must automatically block a lot of junkmail at the server level now; I've gone from getting 30+ junkmails a day to <10 :D.

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ozgeek

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Here's mine: I am a Microsoft fanstic. I use microsoft products because I know they are well developed and have very high support rate and that they are developed from a known company.

Web browser: Avant Browser 9 series

Email send/receive: Outlook Express 6

Office Suite: Microsoft Office XP Professional

IM: MSN Messenger 6

DVD Player: PowerDVD XP (came with DVD burner)

CD burning software: Nero 6

Graphics: Fireworks MX 2004.

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Karl

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Sending/Receiving e-mails : Mozilla Thunderbird

Web Browsing : Mozilla Firefox

Playing Mp3s : Winamp 5.02

Watching Video/DVD : Winamp 5.02 or RealOne Player

Instant Messaging : MSN Mesenger 6 (aim and yahoo i also use)

CD burning software: Nero 6

Web Design : Dreamweaver MX 2004

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X Statik Process

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Hmmm..

Send / Rec. Emails: Microsoft Outlook 2003

Web Browsing: Firefox (0.8)

Playing MP3's: Windows Media Player 9

Watch DVD: Power DVD

Instant Messenger: Windows Messenger / AIM

for applications, Microsoft Office 2003 (with Visio, Project, Frontpage, and OneNote)

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Toxicfume Veteran

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Sending/Receiving e-mails : Microsoft Outlook 2003

Web Browsing : Opera/Mozilla Firefox

Playing Mp3s : Winamp 5.02

Watching Video/DVD : Intervideo WinDVD 5

Instant Messaging : MSN Mesenger 6.1

CD burning software: Nero 6/CDRWin/CloneCD

Web Design : Dreamweaver MX 2004

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bkellner

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Word Processing: Microsoft Office 2003

Email: Microsoft Outlook 2003

Web Browser: MyIE2

Playing MP3's: Winamp 5.02

CD Burning: Nero 6.0.0.0

Watching Video & DVD's: Media Player Classic

Instant Messaging: Trillian

Web Design: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop CS

IRC Chat: Klient 2.0

Voice Chat: Ventrilo

FTP Client: FlashFXP

File (de)Compression: PowerArchiver

*Note: I like a lot of features of Miranda over Trillian. Though some of the dialogs look messy, and the AIM support sucks.

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speedy_kevin

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Office suites: Microsoft Office 2003

Email: Outlook Express

Web Browser: Opera

MP3's: Winamp 5

CD Burning: Nero

Watching Video & DVD's: PowerDVD / Subtitle Viewer

Instant Messaging: MSN 6.1

Web Design: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop CS / Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004

IRC Chat: mIRC

FTP Client: FlashFXP

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SickWorm

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Hehe... The 'Anti MS Campaign' still continues! :p

Microsoft isn't a bad company, just some of it's product aren't as good as ones that belong in the Non MS Category!

Anw, I changed my common apps in non ms still but...

E-Mail Client: Thunderbird

MP3 Player: WinAMP

Thunderbird is the best e-mail client I've ever used, for Winamp we all now that is great! :D

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Veiva

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I just like free software better, mostly becuase it is more fun than fancy non-free stuff AND I can see the source code (most of the time).

e-mail: AOL Communicator

office: WordPerfect Office 2002 (10) and OpenOffice

im: AIM (all freinds use it, so don't need others)

web: Firefox

music: MusicMatch/iTunes

c/c++: Dev-C++ 4

html: Notepad (5.1.2600.xpsp2.030617-10779 : SP 1 ;) )

image: PhotoPlus 5 (going to upgrade soon)

dvd: InterActual and WMP

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STV

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email: Microsoft Outlook 2003

office: Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (along with other apps, i.e. onenote,frontpage)

instant messaging: MSN Messenger, AIM

web browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

audio/visual: Microsoft WMP9

programming: Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 Academic

dvd: PowerDVD, InterVideo WinDVD

that is all i can think of right now,

STV

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