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Microsoft's Vista has widely inspired the "Why do I need that?" question, which past "killer applications" have answered in different ways for different platforms during three decades of personal computing.

Peter Coffees 25 Killer Apps of All Time - 1979: VisiCalc
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Often called the first killer app, this pioneering spreadsheet tool gave birth to the demand, I need this software and something that runs it.







 
 
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  1. Peter Coffees 25 Killer Apps of All Time
  2. 1978: WordStar
  3. 1979: VisiCalc
  4. 1981: dBase II
  5. 1982: AutoCAD
  6. 1983: Lotus 1-2-3
  7. 1983: Turbo Pascal
  8. 1984: MacWrite/MacPaint
  9. 1984: MultiMate
  10. 1985: Excel for Macintosh
  11. 1985: Aldus PageMaker
  12. 1986: Cross-network E-mail
  13. 1987: Excel for Windows
  14. 1987: dBase Mac
  15. 1988: Mathematica 1.0
  16. 1989: Word for Windows
  17. 1990: Windows 3.0
  18. 1990: Adobe Photoshop
  19. 1991: Microsoft Visual Basic
  20. 1994: Netscape Navigator 1.0
  21. 1995: Internet Explorer 1.0
  22. 1996: Palm HotSync
  23. 2001: Mac OS X
  24. 2001: Apple iTunes
  25. 2004: Mozilla Firefox 1.0
  

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