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Leading Edge would often license third party software and brand it as Leading Edge. Leading Edge's Viruscan followed this same philosophy. The Leading Edge Viruscan came with a scan utility and clean utility loaded onto the disk as well as several documents including a comprehensive list of viruses for the time. Digging around in the digital documentation showed that, apparently, these utilities are McAfee 0.4 programs, licensed and branded as Leading Edge Viruscan.

Geoworks Desktop manager was a graphical operating environment where users could organize files and run programs by interfacing with simple icons instead of memorizing DOS commands. The Leading Edge Geoworks Desktop Manager came loaded onto two 5.25" 1.20MB installation floppy disks and was accompanied by a 320 page user manual. The manual covered a summary introduction of the manual itself, then explored Desktop Manager's welcome screen and segued into more specific subject matter including: "appliances", "the personal workspace", and the "GeoDex" to name a few. The manual contained a comprehensive appendix and glossary for easy future reference should the user ever need a functional question answered in short order.

Leading Edge's BASIC Version 2.0 was a version of Microsoft's BASIC interpreter customized for Leading Edge computers and contained many advanced features. Contained with a simple three−ring binder, The Leading Edge Guide to BASIC Version 2.0 contained three chapters covering what the user would have needed to get the most out of the BASIC computing experience, reference for BASIC commands and examples, and syntax and usage examples. The guide contained an extensive reference section spanning nine appendices which covered so much material that the user would have found it difficult to not find an answer to operational questions.