There are hundreds of thousands of applications available for Windows Vista, but which of them are worthy of being something everyone should have? These:
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is the best and most popular open-source web browser in the world, Firefox is worthy of being on every desktop in the world! FF3 is available for nearly every current OS on PCs (and Mac).
- VideoLan VLC Media Player supports most of the formats that are used to today, and then some!
- Paint.net Paint.net is the best image editor for Vista, well, for free anyway. This one’s a tie though, with The GNU Image Manipulation Program also taking third place. It’s pretty much just a free Photoshop.
- Sun Microsystems Open Office is the best free replacement for MS Office on the net. It’s compatible with MS Office too.
- Pidgin Instant Messenger is a great IM program for communications. It is compatible with a large number of IM services including AIM and Yahoo!.
- Mozilla Thunderbird is the best open-source email client on the web. As is custom with Mozilla Apps.
- Microsoft Silverlight is the MS answer to Adobe Flash.
- 7-zip is an archive/extraction tool. Very useful it is.
- Adobe Acrobat/Reader is the best PDF reader out there.
- Microsoft Windows Live Application Suite. By far the fifth-best application MS has ever pumped out, Live adds support for hotmail and all other POP3 email services. It also allows you to publish blogs through MS Live Spaces and Blogger. It also gives you an IM, and tons of other apps to go along with this great communications suite.