Let's get productive
July 20, 2016 | 22:08 | Written by: snake911
I have no idea why, but I’ve always had an odd fascination for productivity software that came out during the Windows 95 era. More specifically, software from Microsoft itself with its own line of software applications under the Microsoft Home title.
Since I currently have a running copy of Windows 95, I decided it was the right time to take a look back and check out the Home suite of software to see how some of them were like. So with this decision in mind, I made a wish list of programs I wanted to try out and then went over to eBay and buy them. Fortunately everything on my list was listed at reasonable prices to where I could pull the trigger and get this now seriously outdated software. Seriously, some of the content is worth a few chuckles due to how out of date some of the materials are.
But since I lived and used software like it at the time, I can put myself back into that frame of mind and give what I feel is a good evaluation of how good or bad the software is. To get an evenly spread out observation of what software was available, I decided to get a copy of a program from each of the five Microsoft Home categories which are: Home Productivity software, Entertainment, Reference and Exploration software, Kids, and Sights, Sounds, and Gear. To easily distinguish between each category, they were given colored banners for their boxes and promotional material. Home Productivity has a green banner, Entertainment has a black banner, Reference and Exploration software has purple, Kids has yellow, and Sights, Sounds, and Gear owns grey.
This exploration of MS Home will be a mini series of blog postings spread across several weeks to hopefully act as a bridge between the remaining gaming journal entries I currently have to another new feature I hope to unveil sometime soon. But in the meantime, get ready to go back to the 1990s when Seinfeld was must see TV, Beavis and Butt-head were scaring conservative Christians, and when Microsoft (M$) made the move to place a computer in every home by not only making an operating system, but software that runs exclusively with it.
Wait a minute, this blog already yaks on about the ‘90s on a constant basis as is, so I guess it’s just business as usual? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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