Application software is designed for end users to perform specific tasks with a graphical user interface. It allows for the creation of user-written software and can be grouped together in an application suite for interactivity. It can be for personal or business use.
Application software is a type of computer software designed to be used by end users to perform specific tasks such as writing a letter, editing a photograph or playing a video file. The term refers not only to the software program itself, but also to the implementation of that program and the use of the capabilities and power of the computing platform that runs the operating system on which the application software runs. For example, the act of installing a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) web design program, setting it up, and using that program to create web pages is what this type of software is all about.
There are some features that you see with this type of software that you don’t see with system programs. Among these features is the presence of some type of user interface, which is generally graphical, hence the term “graphical user interface” (GUI). These types of programs often give end users the freedom to create what is known as user-written software in the form of templates used for word processing and accounting, word processor macros that automate small tasks, and even filters for email management. Text editors feature in the long list of different types of application software and are probably one of the best examples of how these programs allow for the development of multiple programs.
A web developer might be the end user of a text editor where he can code client-side and server-side scripts to accomplish a wide variety of functionality for web pages. For example, the developer could write a script in a text editor that pulls content from a database to be dynamic display of web pages. The text editor is the application software used to create the script, which itself is a small application, but it is not an application software, such as the text editor in which it was created.
When application programs are grouped together, the package is almost always referred to as an application suite. The programs in the suite generally interact with each other as they can all be used to create a file that takes advantage of their different capabilities. For example, an application software suite might consist of a word processor, a spreadsheet, an image manipulation program, and a drawing program. If the user can do things like embed a spreadsheet into a document created by the word processor, there is interactivity in the suite. Application software can be for personal use or it can be business software that performs many different tasks, such as creating presentations, translating documents into a foreign language, or editing video and audio files.
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