Application software is designed to help users perform specific tasks like word processing, spreadsheet calculations, presentations, and multimedia playback. It directly utilizes a computer's capabilities to manipulate text, numbers, and graphics. There are different types of application software for different tasks like word processing with MS Word, database management with Access, spreadsheets with Excel, and multimedia with RealPlayer. Application software has made computers useful for a variety of individual and business tasks.
Application software is designed to help users perform specific tasks like word processing, spreadsheet calculations, presentations, and multimedia playback. It directly utilizes a computer's capabilities to manipulate text, numbers, and graphics. There are different types of application software for different tasks like word processing with MS Word, database management with Access, spreadsheets with Excel, and multimedia with RealPlayer. Application software has made computers useful for a variety of individual and business tasks.
Application software is designed to help users perform specific tasks like word processing, spreadsheet calculations, presentations, and multimedia playback. It directly utilizes a computer's capabilities to manipulate text, numbers, and graphics. There are different types of application software for different tasks like word processing with MS Word, database management with Access, spreadsheets with Excel, and multimedia with RealPlayer. Application software has made computers useful for a variety of individual and business tasks.
Application software is designed to help users perform specific tasks like word processing, spreadsheet calculations, presentations, and multimedia playback. It directly utilizes a computer's capabilities to manipulate text, numbers, and graphics. There are different types of application software for different tasks like word processing with MS Word, database management with Access, spreadsheets with Excel, and multimedia with RealPlayer. Application software has made computers useful for a variety of individual and business tasks.
designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks. Application Software utilizes the capacities of a computer directly to a dedicated task. Application software is able to manipulate text, numbers and graphics. It can be in the form of software focused on a certain single task like word processing, spreadsheet or playing of audio and video files. Different types of Application Software: Word Processing Software: This software enables the users to create and edit documents. The most popular examples of this type of software are MS- Word, WordPad, Notepad and some other text editors. Database Software: Database is a structured collection of data. A computer database relies on database software to organize the data and enable the database users to achieve database operations. Database software allows the users to store and retrieve data from databases. MSAccess is the best example of database software. Spreadsheet Software: Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 and Apple Numbers are some examples of spreadsheet software. Spreadsheet software allows users to perform calculations. They simulate paper worksheets by displaying multiple cells that make up a grid. Multimedia Software: They allow the users to create and play audio and video media. They are capable of playing media files. Audio converters, players, burners, video encoders and decoders are some forms of multimedia software. Examples of this type of software include Real Player and Media Player. Presentation Software: The software that is used to display information in the form of a slide show is known as presentation software. This type of software includes three functions, namely, editing that allows insertion and formatting of text, methods to include graphics in the text and a functionality of executing the slide shows. Microsoft PowerPoint is the best example of presentation software. Examples of application software: Enterprise Software: It deals with the needs of organization processes and data flow. The customer relationship management or the financial processes in an organization are carried out by means of enterprise software. Educational Software: It has the capabilities of running tests and tracking progress. It also has the capabilities of collaborative software. It is often used in teaching and self-learning. Content Access Software: It is used to access content without editing. The common examples of content access software are web browsers, media players and games. Other Application Software Graphics Software: Application software that manipulates images. It is more commonly known as the Image Editor. Multimedia Software: the software that incorporates images, text, sound, computer animation and video sequence. Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw: These are very popular image editors. Windows Movie Maker: A simple and easy to use multimedia software bundled with your window OS (XP and higher) Windows Media Player, Winamp, Power DVD, VLC, etc.:These software are used to listen to music and watch videos. Tally: A software package widely used in India for accounting purposes. Adobe Page Maker: Desktop publishing software used for creating magazines, books, news, letters and so on. CONCLUSION Application software are commonly used today for various computer activities all over the world. The existence of these software helps people to edit text, images, videos, music, etc. Thus we see that application software have made it possible for us users to interact with the computer systems. Application software has served as a boon in harnessing the computing power in the accomplishment of certain important individual and organizational tasks.