1. Chapter 2 – Applications Software Tools for thinking and Working

2. What is Applications Software The software that you use to do stuff. Systems software (the other classification) is used to run the computer

3. Classifying Software According to our Book –Entertainment –Home/Personal –Education/Reference –Productivity –Specialty

4. My Classification of Software Entertainment Communications General Office Personal Software Specialty Software

5. Entertainment Games Media –WinAmp –Napster –DVD Players –…

6. Communications E-mail USENet News Browsers FTP Telnet

7. General Office Word Processing Spreadsheet Graphics Database Presentation PIM

8. Personal Software PIM Personal Finance Specialized Database others

9. Specialty Software Accounting/Finance Inventory General Business Software Media Software Others

10. Legal Considerations Copyright Patent Trade Secrets Piracy

11. Sales/Onnership Models Off the Shelf Shareware Freeware Public Domain GNU/FSF

12. Licensing Shrink-wrap Site license Network licenses