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Software for Windows

I use the following Windows software having no sufficiently good counterpart running on Linux, for my purposes:

Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDF files from PostScript and MS Word files)
Beyond Compare (excellent directory/file compare shareware, $30)
Xenu (excellent website link checker, free)
Eudora ¹
Microsoft Office XP (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Quicken
TurboTax
Various software that came with hardware add-ons (see below)

All of the above are available for Mac OS X except Beyond Compare and Xenu. Beyond Compare will probably be ported to Mac OS X at some point (and FileMerge/opendiff are available in the meantime), while Xenu will probably never be ported (judging from remarks on its website).

I use the following Windows software having perfectly fine (or superior) counterparts in the Linux world, for my purposes:

GNU Emacs (most critical for my quality of life under Windows)
Cygwin Tools (for providing UNIX commands in an Emacs shell -- very important)
ctrl2cap (for switching Ctrl and Caps-Lock -- very important for Emacs users)
Audacity (excellent free sound editor/player)
Ghostscript
Ghostview
psutils
Mozilla Firefox web browser
Various browser extensions
Winamp (classic sound player)²
Adobe Acrobat Reader (for reading PDF files)
MiKTeX (very nice TEX/L^ATEX distribution for Windows)
MP3ToWaveConverter (shareware, $15)
DiskPie (decent shareware pie-chart disk-usage analyzer)
ActivePerl
Tera Term Pro and ttssh (secure telnet shell)
WinZip
ws_ftp

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``My Computers'', by Julius O. Smith III, Web document. Copyright © 2015-11-29 by Julius O. Smith III Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University

``My Computers'', by Julius O. Smith III, Web document.
Copyright © 2015-11-29 by Julius O. Smith III
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University