Soldato
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List programs and Windows OSes if you like too 
I've used Office '97 since 1999. It came with a PC that I bought that year. It does the job, and there's an umbrella that covers 97/2000/XP/2003 anyway, making them effectively the same. 2007 with the new file format and interface is next-gen though.
Age of Empires II + expansion since year 2000. That game NEVER dies.
Mixmeister 3 (DJing software) since 2001. I tried Mixmeister 4 but I didn't like the fact that it changed the datestamp of your files. I preferred MM3's method of creating a separate cache folder that contains mix data for each MP3, leaving the MP3 themselves well alone.
Paintshop Pro 7 since year 2000. It does stuff that GIMP and PSD does - layers, both vector and raster, layer modifiers, alpha, brushes, plug-ins. For me it's fine, best £35 I spent.
I've never had a single version of Windows for long though. Longest was probably Windows XP for 3 years.
I've used Office '97 since 1999. It came with a PC that I bought that year. It does the job, and there's an umbrella that covers 97/2000/XP/2003 anyway, making them effectively the same. 2007 with the new file format and interface is next-gen though.
Age of Empires II + expansion since year 2000. That game NEVER dies.
Mixmeister 3 (DJing software) since 2001. I tried Mixmeister 4 but I didn't like the fact that it changed the datestamp of your files. I preferred MM3's method of creating a separate cache folder that contains mix data for each MP3, leaving the MP3 themselves well alone.
Paintshop Pro 7 since year 2000. It does stuff that GIMP and PSD does - layers, both vector and raster, layer modifiers, alpha, brushes, plug-ins. For me it's fine, best £35 I spent.
I've never had a single version of Windows for long though. Longest was probably Windows XP for 3 years.