Microsoft Phone is a telephony program for Microsoft Windows. It enables your desktop PC to act as an answering machine or dialer and receive faxes. Microsoft Phone includes Microsoft Voice, which lets you control Windows using audio voice commands.
Microsoft Plus! was an add-on package to Windows that added desktop themes, screen savers, sound effects, power-toys, and other assorted goodies for the home user. Plus! 95 also included Internet Explorer 1.0, which was not included in all Windows 95 distributions.
The Microsoft Productivity Pack for Windows is a guided tour through Windows features and usage. It includes lessons on Windows essentials, using applications, managing files, OLE, and TrueType fonts. It was released shortly after Windows 3.1, and targeted at professionals as part of Microsoft's campaign to increase Windows adoption in the business marketplace.
Microsoft Profit was a business accounting system intended to compete against Intuit, Peachtree, and similar products. It was originally created by Great Plains Software for Microsoft. Only the one version was released.
Microsoft Project is a project management chart and gantt chart generator. It is a Microsoft Office family member, and built on the Office code, although it has never shipped with any Office suite.
Publisher is a desktop publishing tool from Microsoft geared towards ease of use with the home user. Microsoft publisher can be used to created professional looking newsletters, flyers, forms, and more. It includes guides and wizards that walk users through creation of common document types, while still offering powerful flexibility.
The design pack is a set of templates and tools for use with Microsoft Publisher.
The Microsoft "Saturn" screen saver is a plasma-like screen saver that uses 256-color VGA pallet rotation to create dazzling effects.
Microsoft Scenes is a screen saver that displays a slide show of photographs. It was packaged in several varieties with different themed galleries.
Microsoft Site Server was an attempt to create a single all-in-one e-commerce management solution. It featured Indexing and Search, Content Management, Product Management, Order Processing, Site Personalization, and Ad Server.
Microsoft SoundBits is a Windows 3.1 program that adds a variety of annoying sounds to actions such as opening a program, or minimizing a window. Because multimedia! It comes in three different flavors: Hanna-Barbera, Hollywood Movies, and Musical Sounds.
Microsoft SMS Server is a server tool that aids management of large numbers of computers. inventory.
Team Manager 97 is a business groupware tool that integrates with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Project. It tracks tasks, assignments, to-do lists, and records status reports. Similar functionality was later part of Microsoft Sharepoint.
Microsoft Vizact 2000, was an application used to create HTML+TIME documents, adding effects such as animation.
Microsoft Voice is a voice recognition system for Microsoft Windows 95/NT.
This is a promotional collection of documents in HTML format released in 1997 describing Microsoft's upcoming plans for future versions of Windows.
Wine Guide is a "multimedia" CD of wines from around the world. Enjoy some vintage wine with your vintage computing!
The Microsoft Word word processor was first introduced for MS-DOS in 1983. Its design made use of a mouse and WYSIWYG graphics. Its crude WYSIWYG/mouse support was a direct response to the Apple Lisa/Mac, and VisiCorp Visi On. Initially it competed against many popular word processors such as WordStar, Multimate, and WordPerfect. Word for DOS was never really successful.
Microsoft Word Assistant contains a font manager, additional TrueType fonts, additional templates, and clipart. Requires Microsoft Word 6.0.
Microsoft Works was an all-in-one scaled-down Word Processor, Spreadsheet, and Database geared towards the home user. It was released in variants for early DOS, Windows, and Macintosh. Microsoft Works competed against Lotus Jazz, FrameWork, AlphaWorks/LotusWorks, PFS First Choice, and many others.
MidiSoft Recording Session is a MIDI sequencer that uses a music notation based interface. It was sometimes bundled with sound cards.
Midisoft Sound Explorer is a collection of Limited Edition version of popular Midisoft application programs. This includes Music Mentor LE, MusicMagic Songbook LE, The World of Music Sampler LE, Sound Impression LE, Multimedia Music Library LE, Studio for Windows LE, and MIDI Kit LE.
The Mindscape Complete Reference Library is a low end, and rather buggy, multimedia library targeted at the educational market. It included an encyclopedia, maps, almanac, dictionary, thesaurus, quotes, and a grammar style reference.
Mindscape Home Office Assistant is a searchable multimedia collection of home business related books and resources. It includes content such as maps, business document templates, and videos.
mIRC is an Internet Relay Chat client for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows with it's own unique scripting language.