What is Application Software?

Every computer uses a lot of application software because there is no single task that can be done without application software. For example adobe acrobat reader is very useful software for creating and reading .pdf files. We can read pdf files without acrobat reader but we must need to use alternative application software for doing such thing.

We know that Computer is called dump machine because it can’t perform any operation own self and must need software or human interaction to do something by using Computer. There are two type of application software desktop application software and web based application software. I will try to introduce these two types of application software in this post.

Desktop application: The application software that works on desktop is known as the desktop application software. Different programming languages are using by the programmer these days for developing this type of desktop application such as C#.NET, JAVA, CPP, and Drupal etc. Almost all of the desktop application software doesn’t use database software but sometimes they use XML files for storing info.

Web Application:Web based applications refer to those applications that must need internet connection to work with. For example Skype is the mostly used chatting application and it has more than 10 billion users. This web application needs to have internet connection. Both web and Computer languages are used to develop this kind of web application. As we have said name of some Computer languages those languages also used for the web application. Additionally some web languages such as ASP.NET, PHP, JSP and Java Script etc are used for web applications.

We use both desktop and web based application every day but don’t try to know what is it? But I think we must have to have learn some basics about application that we are using.