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The Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet was the killer application for the business-oriented IBM PC, and Jazz was an attempt to recreate that success for Macintosh. With the tagline "The software Macintosh was invented for," and promoted on TV at great expense, [2] it was poorly received by reviewers and consumers and became a high-profile flop.
For a list of current programs, see List of Mac software. Third-party databases include VersionTracker , MacUpdate and iUseThis . Since a list like this might grow too big and become unmanageable, this list is confined to those programs for which a Wikipedia article exists.
VMware Fusion – virtualization software; Wine – Windows API reimplementation; Virtual PC – full virtualization software allows running other operating systems, such as Windows and Linux, on PowerPC Macs (discontinued in 2007) VirtualBox; vMac – emulates a Macintosh Plus and can run Apple Macintosh System versions 1.1 to 7.5.5.
By 1989, Claris turned its attention to producing Macintosh and Windows software, letting AppleWorks languish. Claris did, however, agree to license the AppleWorks trademark to Quality Computers. TimeOut developers Randy Brandt and Dan Verkade then created AppleWorks 4.0 in 1993 and AppleWorks 5.0 in 1994, published by Quality Computers along ...
System 7 (became Mac OS after version 7.6, discontinued in 1997) [146] Mac OS 8 (discontinued in 1999) [10] Mac OS 9 (discontinued in 2001) [147] [148] Lisa OS – An operating system based on Apple SOS developed 3 years prior. [149] It was discontinued in 1986 alongside the Lisa line of computers, [150] with System Software being partially ...
This is a list of Apple Macintosh software published by Microsoft. Prior to 1994, Microsoft had an extensive range of actively developed Macintosh software. In 1994, Microsoft stopped development of most of its Mac applications until a new version of Office in 1998, after the creation of the new Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit the year prior.
This made it possible for third-party software programmers to create and sell virtual instruments for Cubase. This technology has become a de facto standard for other DAW software, when integrating software based instruments on the Macintosh and Windows platforms. A new version of VST, VST3, was introduced with Steinberg's Cubase 4 which ...
Wingz was originally written solely for the Macintosh by Innovative Software (publishers of the SmartWare Suite on the PC) based in Lenexa within Johnson County, Kansas; and was ready for release in late 1988. Informix wanted to enter the desktop software market with products that could link to their back-end databases, and Wingz seemed like a ...