Microsoft vs Non Microsoft Applications


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OS: Windows XP SP2

Office : Microsoft Office 2003

Web: Opera 7.23 (yes, I finally switched my browser)

Media Player: Musicmatch/Media Jukebox/WMP

Video: PowerDVD/WinDVD

IM: Trillian

programming: Microsoft Visual Studio 6 Pro (Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 Academic) wish i had, as a student

CD burning software: Nero 6/Roxio 6 & 7

FTP Client: CuteFTP

File (de)Compression: WinRAR/WinACE

Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop 7

Edited by Cierro

Sending/Receiving e-mails: Thunderbird/WWW

Web Browsing: Firefox

Playing Mp3s: iTunes

Watching Video/DVD: WMP9 or DivX

Instant Messaging: Msn Messenger 6

Cd Burning: hp record now :blush:

File Compression: winRAR, winZIP

Graphics: PS7

and i use Office 2k3

email: outlook '03

IM: miranda (maybe trillian)

music: winamp and wmp

Video: wmpc and wmpXP

browser: opera and ie

office suit: obviously MS office i just cant go for second best...

Cd burning: nero another app i can't choose second best to...

E-mail : web-based email

Web Browsing : MyIE2 mostly but I use Firefox too

Mp3s : Winamp

Video/DVD : BSplayer(avi, mpeg), Media Player Classic(Real, Quicktime), WMP9(WM*, DVD)

Instant Messaging : MSN Messenger

Office suite : OpenOffice

Cd Burning : Nero

File Compression : PowerArchiver

I only use MS Office because it it by far the best Offuce suite.

Every other app I use is non-microsoft.

Web: Firefox

Mail: Outlook 2003

Music: Winamp

DVD: WinDVD 5

Word Procesor: Word 2003

CD Burning: Nero 5

Archiver: WinRar

Oh yea and MSn Messenger, but thats the only other MS app I use.

Sending/Receiving e-mails: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 - Used to use Outlook Express tillI got sick of it mis-behaving when i disabled Windows Messenger

Web Browsing: Mozilla Firebird 0.8

Playing Mp3s: Windows Media Player

Watching Video/DVD: Power DVD 2000

Instant Messaging: AIM (most), Windows Messenger

Others

Web Programing / Design: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

Graphics: Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004

Design Stuff (like posters / business cards): Macromedia Freehand MX

MySQL: phpMyAdmin, SqlYog

FTP: Flash FXP

Office: Primarily MS Office 2000, Also use OpenOffice.org v1.1 a lot

PC Fun: Enemy Territory

OS: Primary: Windows XP Pro, SP2 RC1, Secondary: Fedora Core 1

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