Open Source for Windows

Audio editing tools

Tag tools:

Business Software

CAD and Electronic Design

CAD
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

Calendar Software

CD Writing

Compression/ZIP

Databases

Desktop Environments & Shell

Dictionaries

Drivers/Hardware

Educational

Emulators

FTP clients

Firewall & NAT

Firewall:
NAT:

File systems (drivers)

GPS

Graphics

2D animation:
3D modeling, animation and rendering:
Image editors:
Image viewers:
Paint-alike programs:
Vector graphics:

Instant Messaging

Internet Voice chat

SIP VoIP:

IRC clients

Mail & News

Anti-Spam

Media Players (audio)

Media Players (video)

Media Players (codecs)

Networking tools

NTP clients

Office tools

Operating Systems

PostScript viewers

Programming

Ada:
Assembler:
Basic:
C:
  • gcc [GNU GPL]
D:
Delphi:
Eiffel:
Fortran:
GUI prototyping:
Haskell:
Java:
Lua:
  • Lua [MIT license]
Mercury:
.NET
Pascal:
Perl:
PHP:
Prolog
Python:
Ruby:
Rust:
Scheme:
IDE's:
Debuggers:
Installer systems:
CVS:
Subversion:
Git:
Decompilers and Reverse Engineering:
GUI toolkits
Computer Graphics libraries
  • SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) [GNU LGPL]
  • Little cms [GNU LGPL]
  • Mesa3D [MIT-style license]
  • G3D [BSD]
  • VTK (The Visualization Toolkit)
Libraries
Modeling tools:
Profiling:

Remote access

Sciences and Math

Mathematics:
Biology:
Geographic Information Systems:

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General:

Security, Privacy, Protection,...

Server software

CVS:
DHCP:
DNS:
FTP servers:
Identd:
Jabber servers:
Java/XML application server
Mail and News:
Webservers:
NFS servers:
SSH-servers:
Other:

SCP (SecureCoPy) clients

Stream Downloaders

Text editors

Utilities

Backup:
Uninstall and cleanup:
System tools:
Checksumming:
base64 encoding/decoding:
Data recovery:
Disk utilities:
Grep-alike tools
Mobile phone utilities:
Notes:
Photo album software:
Printing:
Shells:
Diff and merge utilities:
Even more utilities:

Video capture/processing

VJ Software

Web browsers

Webcam

Web editors

Webgrabbers and Download Managers

Even more open source