Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks. It helps to solve problems in the real world. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software, and media players.
Application software is contrasted with system software and middleware, which manage and integrate a computer's capabilities, but typically do not directly apply them in the performance of tasks that benefit the user.
A simple, if imperfect, analogy in the world of hardware would be the relationship of an electric light bulb (an application) to an electric power generation plant (a system). The power plant merely generates electricity, not itself of any real use until harnessed to an application like the electric light that performs a service that benefits the user.
System software does not aim at a certain application fields. In contrast, different application software offers different functions based on users and the area it served. software’s developed for some certain purpose, which either can be a certain program or a collection of some programmers, such as a graphic browser or the data base management system.
Application software allows end users to accomplish one or more specific (not directly computer development related) tasks. Typical applications include:
§ telecommunications (i.e., the Internet and everything that flows on it)
§ Word processing
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