The open source movement has produced its fair share of killer apps. In fact, you can find a free open source solution for just about any commericial application you currently use. I have compiled a short list of some of my favorite free development and computing tools for Windows — total cost, $0.00.
Internet Security – Kerio Personal Firewall
http://www.kerio.com/
Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations etc… — OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org
Browsing — Firefox
http://www.getfirefox.com
Email Client — Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
FTP — Filezilla
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net
DVD Decoder — VideoLAN
http://www.videolan.org/
CD to MP3 Conversion — CDEx
http://www.cdex.n3.net/
C++ Development — Dev-C++
http://www.bloodshed.net/
CD/DVD Burner — CDBurnerXP Pro
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Downloading — BitComet
http://www.bitcomet.com/
Music — WinAMP 5
http://www.winamp.com
Video Media Player — BSPlayer
http://www.bsplayer.org/
Content Management System — Wordpress
http://www.wordpress.org
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