Desktop Application Software

Example(s):
- Office Productivity Application Software.
See: Interactive Software, System Software, Utility Software, Accounting Software, Document File Format, Product Bundling.

References

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/application_software Retrieved:2015-6-25.
- Application software (an application) is a set of computer programs designed to permit the user to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities. Application software cannot run on itself but is dependent on system software to execute.
  Examples of an application include a word processor, a spreadsheet design and management system, an aeronautical flight simulator, a console game, a drawing, painting, and illustrating system, or a library management system.
  The term is used to distinguish such software from system software, which manages and integrates a computer's capabilities but does not directly perform tasks that benefit the user, and utility software, which is directly concerned with altering or managing the computer's operating environment. Examples of types of application software may include accounting software, media players, and office suites. Many application programs deal principally with documents. Applications may be bundled with the computer and its system software or published separately, and may be coded as e.g. proprietary, open-source or university projects.