Basic Application Software.
Its an application that allows us to control and interact with the program; the user interface. Graphical User Interface (GUI) uses icons to represent familiar objects and mouse. A window is a rectangular area containing document, program or message. Menus have menu bar at the top, dialog box that provides additional information while toolbars appear below the menu bar, containing small graphic elements called buttons. which provides shortcuts for quick access. Basically, GUI operates with the presence of Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers.
It creates text documents and to create memos, letters and fax. Microsoft Word is the most widely used word processor besides Corel WordPerfect and Apple Pages. In a word processor, we can edit, check for synonyms, spelling and grammar checks and edit the format; font, colors and etc.
This program analyzes, organize and graph numeric datas. It manipulates numeric data and create workbook files. A worksheet or spreadsheet is a rectangular grid of rows and columns. the intersection of a row and a column is called a cell. The most widely used spreadsheets include Microsoft Excel, Apple iWork's Numbers and Corel Quattro Pro.
Database Management System (DBMS)
It is a collection of related data. It sets up or structures a database besides providing a tool to enter, edit and retrieve data drom the database. It is able to find and bring together information stored in seperate locations. There are also tools to sort records based on a selected field. A filter meanwhile display only records meeting the conditions we specify.
Utility suites combine several programs into one package, which provides several types of utilities, like programs that will protect the system from viruses. The common ones are like the Norton System Works and Norton Internet Security Suite.