If you ask at any computer shop in this country they will happily fill your computer with a collection of illegal software that you “need”. But not even the version of Windows (usually Windows ultimate edition, but in the rest of the world probably less than 5% use the ultimate edition as it is unnecessary) they install is necessary.
So how do I know what really I need?
We’ve evaluated software in a range of categories and defined it as the IAM standard operating environment. This software is the only software permitted to be used on IAM owned computers, but for personally owned computers what you use is ultimately up to you. Therefore, when you realise that there is something you need that your curent software doesn’t do, just look it up in this list and download the software you need. We don’t support the use of illegal software, and the majority of software on this list is free (the major exceptions being Office suites where we’ve found it impossible to find something that is truly 100% Microsoft Office compatible and is also able to handle right to left languages properly, and email clients where we’ve found it impossible to find something that works well and is currently maintained and is free). We don’t know about every piece of software out there, so if you know of something that should be added to this list or considered as a better alternative to something on this list please let us know.