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Jazz is a productivity suite similar to Lotus Symphony for MS-DOS that was bundled with a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a database manager, a graphics editor, and telecommunications software. The software package was planned for a March 1985 release, but ended up shipping in August, selling for $595 (equivalent to $1,686 in 2023). [103]
Scribus (/ ˈ s k r aɪ b ə s /) is free and open-source desktop publishing (DTP) software available for most desktop operating systems. It is designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment.
Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [14] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [15] [16] [17] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989 ...
The rise of the Internet and cloud computing enabled a new model, software as a service (SaaS), [18] in which the provider hosts the software (usually built on top of rented infrastructure or platforms) [19] and provides the use of the software to customers, often in exchange for a subscription fee. [17]
Most of Chrome's source code comes from Google's free and open-source software project Chromium, but Chrome is licensed as proprietary freeware. [14] WebKit was the original rendering engine , but Google eventually forked it to create the Blink engine; [ 17 ] all Chrome variants except iOS used Blink as of 2017.
Application software is any computer program that is intended for end-user use – not operating, administering or programming the computer. An application (app, application program, software application) is any program that can be categorized as application software.
Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Macintosh, shipped in March 2000, was the first browser to have full (better than 99 percent) CSS 1 support, [35] surpassing Opera, which had been the leader since its introduction of CSS support fifteen months earlier. Other browsers followed soon afterward, and many of them additionally implemented parts of CSS 2.
Downloads have continued at an increasing rate since Firefox 1.0 was released, and as of 31 July 2009 Firefox had already been downloaded over one billion times. [328] This number does not include downloads using software updates or those from third-party websites. [329]