We’ve all had grand ideas and small side projects, but some people have turned these into grandiose software projects that never got released.

In this talk, Anders Norås tells the stories of some of the wild software projects people have started, what happened and who the people behind them were. You’ll learn about a lost version of Microsoft Windows where the teams worked for years to bring some of Bill Gates’ visions for the operating system to life, before the project came to a sudden end. You’ll see the never release computers that could have made IBM the leader of the home computer market. You’ll learn about a music streaming service that could have beaten Spotify to the game. You’ll hear the heart-moving story of the “world’s greatest web browser” which has been in the making for more than six decades. And many, many other mind boggling stories of ambitious software projects.

This is the best software you never got to use.