List of Microsoft software applications

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The following is an incomplete list of Microsoft software applications.

Contents 1 Operating Systems 2 End user 3 Development 4 Business 5 Entertainment 6 See also

[edit] Operating Systems

• Windows
• Singularity
• MS-DOS

[edit] End user

Internet applications

• Internet Explorer
• Outlook Express
• Windows Messenger
• Windows Live Messenger
• Windows Live Writer
• MSN Messenger
• Microsoft Messenger for Mac
• Netmeeting
• MSN Internet Access
• MSN Explorer

Office applications

• Microsoft Works
• Microsoft Office, including:
  • Core - Excel, Word, Outlook, Powerpoint
  • Others - Access, InfoPath, Publisher, FrontPage, Visio, replaced with Photo Editor (now replaced with Picture Manager), Microsoft Project, OneNote, Communicator, Assistant, Student, Producer, ...
  • Mac - Entourage
  • Discontinued - Binder, Schedule Plus, Mail, Imager, PhotoDraw
• Office web services - Microsoft Office Online and Microsoft Office Update
• Office companion servers - Live Communications Server, Project Server, SharePoint Portal Server.

Graphic design

• Microsoft Expression
  • Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer
  • Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer
  • Microsoft Expression Web

Utilities

• Microsoft Calculator
• Microsoft Paint
• Microsoft Chart
• Microsoft Reader
• Windows Defender

Other

• Encarta
  • Encarta Premium 2007
  • Student with Encarta Premium 2007
• MapPoint
• Windows Media Player
• Windows Movie Maker
• Microsoft Agent
• Microsoft Digital Image
• 3D Movie Maker
• Microsoft Money
• Groove (software)
• Microsoft Max
• Microsoft Plus!
• Virtual PC

Discontinued and/or replaced products and technologies

• Internet Explorer for Mac
• Microsoft Anti-Virus (replaced by OneCare)
• Microsoft Bob
• Microsoft Comic Chat
• Office Assistant (still available on demand in Office 2003 but banished from Office 2007)
• Imager (replaced by Photo Editor, which itself was replaced by Office Picture Manager)
• Microsoft Picture It! (replaced by Microsoft Digital Image)
• Microsoft Binder
• Microsoft Liquid Motion (a supposed early competitor to Adobe Flash)
• Microsoft Vizact 2000 — possibly to be partially resurrected in the Microsoft Expression family
• Schedule Plus — now incorporated partially into Microsoft Outlook and to be resurrected in Windows Calendar
• Mail — replaced with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Microsoft Entourage (Mac), and to be resurrected in Windows Mail
• Microsoft PhotoDraw

For a more detailed list, see: Discontinued Microsoft software

[edit] Development

• Microsoft Macro Assembler
• Microsoft Pascal

BASIC

• QuickBASIC
• GW-BASIC
• Microsoft BASICA
• Microsoft BASIC

Development environments

• Visual FoxPro (no longer part of Visual Studio)
• Visual SourceSafe
• CodeView
• Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio

• Visual Basic
• Visual Basic .NET
• Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger
• Visual J++ (discontinued)
• Visual C++
• Visual J#
• Visual C#
• Visual Studio .NET
• Visual Studio 2005
• Visual Studio 2005 Express
• Workspace Whiz (add-in)

[edit] Business

• Windows Server System
• Microsoft Dynamics
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft BizTalk Server
• Microsoft Virtual Server
• Microsoft System Center - family of Management Products, including DPM, MOM, and SMS

[edit] Entertainment

Main article: Microsoft Game Studios

• Age of Empires
• Age of Mythology
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Midtown Madness series
• Halo (video game series)
• Rise of Nations

[edit] See also

• List of Microsoft topics