For those analytic journalists slipping toward geezer-dom, eWEEK magazine offers up an interesting blast from many pasts this week with “Peter Coffee's 25 Killer Apps of All Time.” 

Says he: “Microsoft's Vista has widely inspired the 'Why do I need that?'
question, which past 'killer applications' have answered in different
ways for different platforms during three decades of personal computing.”

It seems to us that comparing Vista to a break-through tool like Visicalc is a bit of a stretch, but check out Coffee's slide show anyway, just for fun.