1989 Excellence in Software Awards Winners
BUSINESS SOFTWARE AWARDS
Best Entry Level Business Application
Quicken (Macintosh), Intuit Corporation
Best Power Business Application
FoxBASE+ (Version 2.10) (DOS), Fox Software
Best Vertical Market Application
MacInTax/TaxView 1988, SoftView, Inc.
Best Business Application: Word or Text Orientation
WordPerfect 5.0 (IBM), WordPerfect Corporation
Best Business Application: Graphic or Display Orientation
Adobe Illustrator 88, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Best Business Application: Numeric or Data Orientation
Q&A 3.0, Symantec Corporation
Best Business Utility or Accessory
Allways, The Spreadsheet Publisher, Funk Software, Inc.
Best New Business Use of a Computer
IZE (IBM PC), Persoft, Inc.
Best Multi-Functional Program
Q&A 3.0, Symantec Corporation
Best Graphical User Interface Design in a Business Program
HP New Wave, Hewlett-Packard
Best Multi-User Product
Q&A 3.0, Symantec Corporation
Best Product for Managers
Grand View, Symantec Corporation
CONSUMER SOFTWARE AWARDS
Best Entertainment Program
Tetris, Spectrum HoloByte
Best Personal Productivity Program
Quicken (Macintosh), Intuit Corporation
Best Creativity Program for a Consumer Product
Digital Darkroom, Silicon Beach Software
Best Sound Achievement in a Non-Music Product
The Three Stooges (Amiga), Cinemaware
Best Graphics Achievement in a Non-Graphics Product
Battle Chess, Interplay Productions
Best Graphics in a Graphics Product
Adobe Illustrator 88, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Best Original Game Achievement
Tetris, Spectrum Holobyte
Best Sports
Wayne Gretzky Hockey (Amiga), Bethesda Softworks
Best Action/Arcade
Shufflepuck Café, Brøderbund Software, Inc.
Best Simulation Program
F-19 Stealth Fighter, MicroProse
Best Action/Strategy Program
Tetris, Spectrum HoloByte
Best Adventure/Fantasy Role-Playing Program
King’s Quest IV – The Perils of Rosella, Sierra On-Line, Inc.
EDUCATION SOFTWARE AWARDS
Best Early Education Program
The New Talking StickyBear Alphabet (Apple IIGS), Weekly Reader Software/Optimum Resource
Best Elementary School Program
NumberMaze (Macintosh), Great Wave Software
Best Junior High/High School Program
Calculus, Brøderbund Software, Inc.
Best Home Learning Program
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?, Brøderbund Software, Inc.
Best Productivity Program
Wordbench: The Tool For People Who Write, Addison-Wesley
Best Creativity Program for an Educational Product
Hometown, U.S.A., Publishing International
Best Math Program
NumberMaze (Macintosh), Great Wave Software
Best Language Arts Program
Voy a Leer Escribiendo, IBM Corporation
Best Social Studies/Science Program
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego?, Brøderbund Software, Inc.
Best Special Education Program
Words and Concepts, Laureate Learning Systems, Inc.
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Best Programming Language or Tool
THINK’s LightspeedC 3.0, Symantec Corporation
Best Utility
The Norton Utilities Advanced Edition 4.5, Peter Norton Computing, Inc.
Best Technical Achievement
The Norton Utilities Advanced Edition 4.5, Peter Norton Computing, Inc.
GENERAL AWARDS
Best New Use of a Computer
The Manhole (Macintosh), Activision Entertainment/MEDIAGENIC
Best Telecommunications Software
CompuServe Navigator, CompuServe
Best LAN Software
Microsoft OS/2 LAN Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Best of the Best
Adobe Illustrator 88, Adobe Systems, Inc.
CRITIC’S CHOICE AWARDS
Best Business Program
Lotus Agenda, Lotus Development Corporation
Best Consumer Program
Tetris, Spectrum HoloByte
Best Education Program
World GeoGraph, MECC
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation
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