Your favourite freeware <here> , preferably for Windows

[Rahul Sudip Bose]

Please share your favourite 100% freeware which has no strings attached.

Mine are :

-notepad++
-Evince pdf reader
-download express
-Avast av
-Avira av

[edit : virtualBox]

[Ulf Dittmer]

Having to use Windows is a string attachment.

[Bear Bibeault]

Interesting that 40% of that list is anti-virus software.

[Joe Ess]

VirtualBox
Ubuntu

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

All the IDEs
Firefox
Thunderbird

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

Joe Ess wrote:VirtualBox
Ubuntu

I like this list Very creative

[Matthew Brown]

Other than the obvious/essential stuff: GIMP, Dia, UMLet

[Joe Ess]

Mohamed Sanaulla wrote:

Joe Ess wrote:VirtualBox
Ubuntu

I like this list Very creative

Thanks. Mac fanboys will shriek, but I do the same thing on OS X. I hate iTunes (well, all library-based music players) with a passion and have some Linux tools that I can't find good OS X replacements for (Tovid for example).

[Rahul Sudip Bose]

Matthew Brown wrote:Other than the obvious/essential stuff: GIMP, Dia, UMLet

GIMP just hangs in my win7 64 bit...so i keep paint.net

[Pat Farrell]

Freeware is such a term from last century. The modern term is free and open source. Some of what I use all the time is free, but not quite open source. This includes Java, Netbeans and similar things.

In the clearly free catagory, I have to include Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird and Android.

[Saurabh Pillai]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Interesting that 40% of that list is anti-virus software.

Malicious people like to affect maximum number of computers through virus and according to W3School , Windows have over 85% of OS market share so obviously there IS a need of antivirus software unlike Mac.

[Bear Bibeault]

Saurabh Pillai wrote:

Bear Bibeault wrote:Interesting that 40% of that list is anti-virus software.

Malicious people like to affect maximum number of computers through virus and according to W3School , Windows have over 85% of OS market share so obviously there IS a need of antivirus software unlike Mac.

Bull-doody. It's an often-repeated fallacy that market share is a factor. Windows is targeted because it is vulnerable (that's a polite way of saying "a steaming pile of poo").