Manas Ranjan MRS

           A software suite is a collection of separate application programs bundled to gether and made a cabection of sep. While the applications function exactly the same whether purchased in a suite or separately, it is significantly less expensive to buy a suite of applications than to buy each applica tion separately. There are four basic categories of software suites: • Productivity suite. Productivity suites, also known as office soft ware suites or simply office suites contain professional-grade ap plication programs that are typically used in a business situation. Productivity suites commonly include a word processor, spread sheet, database manager, and a presentation application. The best known is Microsoft Office. Other well-known productivity suites are Apple iWork, Sun StarOffice, Corel Word Perfect Office Suite, and Lotus SmartSuite. • Alternative office suites. Traditionally, when you purchase an fice suite you are licensed to use the applic...

 The following graphics processing capabilities are highly desirable in a multimedia computer system for better presentation and use of graphics information: 1. Painting or drawing software: This software allows the user to create graphics from scratch by using a mouse and various simple objects, such as lines, circles and polygons with various supporting colors. It also allows the user to modify and enhance graphic images produced by using a scanner or screen capture. All these features make this software very useful for cresting desired graphics in a multimedia application. 2. Screen capture software: Often we need to incorporate images from computer screen displays in some document. Screen capture software packages are used in such cases to capture the display of a computer screen as a graphics image. 3. Clip art: Clip art is a library of commonly used graphics images or objects, such as a personal computer, printer, aeroplane, telephone, flower, building etc. These images can b...

Utilities are programs that make computing easier. Web utilities are specialized utility programs that make using the internet and the web easier and safer. Some of these utilities are Internet services for connecting and sharing resources over the Internet. Others are browser-related programs that either become part of your browser or are executed from your browser. WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS : Typically, application programs are owned by individuals or organizations and stored on their computer system's hard disk. An emerging trend, however, is to free users from owning and storing applications. The most widely used Web-based applications are free using Web-based services that provide access to programs that run within your browser window. For example, Google Apps provides free ac cess to programs with capabilities similar to Microsoft's Word, Excel, and Power Point. Another type of Web-based application typically runs on your desktop like a tra ditional application program. To u...

WINDOWS Microsoft's Windows is by far the most popular microcomputer operating system today with over 90 percent of the market. Because its market share is so large, more application programs are developed to run under Windows than any other operating system. Windows comes in a variety of different versions and is designed to run with Intel and Intel-compatible microprocessors such as the Pentium IV and Core 2 series. There are many versions of Windows. The latest, Windows Vista, was released in 2007. Compared to the previous system, Windows XP, Windows Vista provides several improvements including: • Advanced system security to guard against malicious files and programs, including spyware. • Three-dimensional workspace capable of displaying transparent cascading windows. • Filtering capabilities to provide convenient parental controls by blocking access of objectionable Web sites. MAC OS Apple introduced its Macintosh microcomputer and operating system in 1984. It provided one of ...