Mainsoft

Mainsoft was founded in 1993, mainly to propose integration products between Windows and other systems.{{Cite web|title=Mainsoft - CNET Download|url=https://download.cnet.com/developer/mainsoft/i-10088043/|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Download.com|language=en}}

Mainsoft was one of the main providers for the Microsoft Windows Interface Source Environment (WISE) program, a licensing program from Microsoft that allowed developers to recompile and run Windows-based applications on Unix and Macintosh platforms.{{cite web | url=http://hyper.sunjapan.com.cn/~hz/win32/wise.htm | title=Windows Interface Source Environment (WISE) | date=January 1995 | access-date=26 April 2008 | url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080330032918/http://hyper.sunjapan.com.cn/~hz/win32/wise.htm | archive-date=30 March 2008 }} Its first product, MainWin, was an implementation of the Windows API for Unix systems such as Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and UnixWare, offering "most of 600 Windows calls" and reportedly allowing Windows 3.0, and later 3.1, applications recompiled for target platforms to run natively at acceptable performance without recourse to emulation.{{ cite news | url=https://archive.org/details/UnigramX1993417-467/page/18/mode/1up | title=French Start-Up has Windows API for Unix | work=Unigram/X | date=15 February 1993 | access-date=24 August 2024 | pages=1 }}

WISE software development kits (SDKs) were not directly provided by Microsoft. Instead Microsoft established partnerships to several software providers which in turn sold WISE SDKs to end-users.{{Cite web|title=Bristol Technology v. Microsoft Corporation, 114 F. Supp. 2d 59 {{!}} Casetext Search + Citator|url=https://casetext.com/case/bristol-technology-v-microsoft-corporation-2|access-date=2021-10-22|website=casetext.com}}

After the WISE program, Microsoft extended its agreements with Mainsoft to port Windows Media Player 6.3 and Internet Explorer to Unix.{{cite web

| url=http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows-Source-Leak-Traces-Back-to-Mainsoft/1076674118

| title=Windows Source Leak Traces Back to Mainsoft

| quote=Mainsoft extended its WISE agreement with Microsoft in March 2000 to include access to the Windows 2000 source. Microsoft subsequently employed Mainsoft to port Windows Media Player 6.3 and Internet Explorer to Unix.

| date=2004-02-13

| accessdate=2008-04-26}}

Since then, Mainsoft activity shifted to integration of Microsoft SharePoint into IBM products{{cite web

| url=http://www2.mainsoft.com/content/sharepoint-integrator-product-suite

| title=SharePoint Integrator – Product Suite

| work=mainsoft.com

| accessdate=2009-07-03

| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128113401/http://www2.mainsoft.com/content/sharepoint-integrator-product-suite

| archive-date=2013-01-28

| url-status=dead

}}{{cite web

| url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/mainsoft-links-microsoft-sharepoint-ibm-jazz-042

| title=Mainsoft links Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Jazz

| publisher=infoworld.com

| date=2009-03-17

| accessdate=2009-07-03}}{{cite web

| url=http://www.techworld.com.au/article/307776/sharepoint_gets_notes_8_5_integration_from_mainsoft

| title=Sharepoint gets Notes 8.5 integration from Mainsoft

| publisher=techworld.com.au

| date=2009-06-17

| accessdate=2009-07-03}} (IBM Lotus Notes, IBM WebSphere, Rational Jazz) and products focusing on .NET Framework and JavaEE.

To be able to develop WISE SDKs, software providers needed to have access to Windows internals source code. In 2004, more than 30000 source files from Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 were leaked to the internet. It was later discovered that the source of the leak originated from Mainsoft.{{cite web

| url=http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3312621

| title=Mainsoft Eyed as Windows Source Code Leak

| publisher=internetnews.co

| date=2004-02-13

| accessdate=2009-07-03}}{{cite web

| url=http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41807/microsoft-updates-code-leak-statement-mainsoft-fingered.html

| title=Microsoft Updates Code Leak Statement, Mainsoft Fingered

| publisher=windowsitpro.com

| date=2004-02-19

| accessdate=2009-07-03

| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201194441/http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41807/microsoft-updates-code-leak-statement-mainsoft-fingered.html

| archive-date=2010-02-01

| url-status=dead

}}

• Internet Explorer for UNIX

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090629190244/http://www.mainsoft.com/ Company website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090501040424/http://www.mainsoft.com/products/mainwin.aspx MainWin], a Mainsoft platform allowing to port Windows applications to Unix and Linux

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