APPLICATION SOFTWARE

Application software, or simply applications, are often

called productivity programs or end-user programs because
they enable the user to complete tasks such as creating
documents, spreadsheets, databases, and publications,
doing online research, sending email, designing graphics,
running businesses, and even playing games!
Four categories of application software:
1.Personal Productivity applications - Productivity software
is a category of application programs that help users
produce things such as documents, databases, graphs,
worksheets and presentations.
2.Multimedia and graphics applications - Terms related to
multimedia, including graphics, animation and video
definitions and words and phrases about images and sound.
3.Communications applications - is used to provide remote
access to systems and exchange files and messages in text,
audio and/or video formats between different computers or
users.
4.Home and educational - is computer software, the primary
purpose of which is teaching or self-learning.