Let's see what I use on the taskbar! what's missing from 1998. The world has moved on.


 

• Snipping tool: No big deal, just a nice way to crop screenshots.
• Steam: There's always games for every platform. Every.
• Control Panel/Explorer: Finder. It does support WebDAV, da?
• Reader: A decent PDF reader that supports modern PDFs is always handy.
• Notepad: SimpleText.
• Word: Now we're going hard. I mainly use Markdown (which itself cant be easily processed pre-X) but Word is handy for post-processing to the rest of the world.
• Excel: I only use basic stuff, so...
• Visio: Very nice diagramming tool. There's vector drawing programs for Classic, but not quite like Visio's stencil-focused one.
• Outlook: I use it for Exchange, IMAP, and SharePoint list synchronization. Exchange is 2010, which requires 2002 minimum.
• Pidgin: Need XMPP, preferably with OTR.
• IE: A modern browser, for doing all those browser things. Classilla works for various definition of works.
• Weather: There's websites for this.
• VMware Workstation: Virtual PC could handle 9x/NT4, but as it's emulated on a PPC, slow as balls. I don't want to imagine how fast Windows 7 is on it.
• vSphere: Precedes the OS. This basically did not exist. There's a web client, but it's a slow, slow mess that requires Flash.
• RDP: No client on Classic.
• PuTTY/PSFTP: MacSSH works, but it's buggy and there's not a lot of time left in its lifespan, as OpenBSD keeps running a chainsaw to old and busted crypto in OpenSSHD.
• VLC: As long as something can play FLAC, I'm good.