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Application software, also known as apps, help users perform specific tasks like managing finances, editing documents or photos, and playing media. Examples include programs for business management, office suites, graphics editing, and media players. Unlike system software, application software directly applies the computer's capabilities to complete tasks that benefit the user, similar to how an electric light bulb harnesses electricity from a power plant to provide the useful service of illumination.

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Application software, also known as apps, help users perform specific tasks like managing finances, editing documents or photos, and playing media. Examples include programs for business management, office suites, graphics editing, and media players. Unlike system software, application software directly applies the computer's capabilities to complete tasks that benefit the user, similar to how an electric light bulb harnesses electricity from a power plant to provide the useful service of illumination.

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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. 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. Pg:104

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