* Any Smalltalk IDE (VW, Vast): it’s hard at the beginning, but once that you get used to evaluate expressions everywhere it’s amazing. I don’t use St since a long time, but I haven’t seen that dev UX in any other editor or IDE.
* MS Word for Windows: today we are used to the spellchecking as you type, but IIRC Word was the first one to have that feature.
* VMWare.. being able to run a Windows VM from Linux in the 2000 was amazing. It also changed the QA processes for desktop apps.
* GMail... 1GB email for free, it was way beyond of any other web email at the time (that and also good IMAP support, and Pop3 with TLS, none of the competitors had that when it launched)
* Photoshop... if you used any image editor, PS was 10x better.
* MS Word for Windows: today we are used to the spellchecking as you type, but IIRC Word was the first one to have that feature.
* VMWare.. being able to run a Windows VM from Linux in the 2000 was amazing. It also changed the QA processes for desktop apps.
* GMail... 1GB email for free, it was way beyond of any other web email at the time (that and also good IMAP support, and Pop3 with TLS, none of the competitors had that when it launched)
* Photoshop... if you used any image editor, PS was 10x better.