As mentioned a few days ago I did a new laptop rebuild. I thought I'd share my 'toolkit' of apps which I use.

  • Office 2007: Office Suite
  • Visio 2007: Charting
  • CRM 4.0 Offline Client: Line of Business Tool and CRM System
  • Communicator 2007: Chat and Phone
  • Windows Live Messenger: Chat
  • Paint .NET: Image Manipulation
  • Product Studio (an internal Microsoft tool): Bug Tracking
  • Visual Studio 2008: Developing
  • Windows Live Writer: Blogging
  • Mind Manager 7 Pro: Mind Mapping
  • Camtasia: Screencaptures
  • Virtual PC: Virtual Machines (usually CRM Servers etc)