Desktop applications are those software that can be installed on standalone machine called as client machine (desktop or laptop). These software use native resources of standalone machine such as network, CPU, memory and storage, in order to perform specific task for which they are designed for. Desktop applications are designed to run on standalone machine, by single user. Multiple users can access the printer, scanners if they are LAN connected with desktop applications.
Some examples of desktop application are Windows file explorer – to access files stored on hard drive of local machine, Microsoft’s office applications such as word, excel, PowerPoint to write and access documents, generate tabular reports on finance and design presentations, Web browsers to access websites and searching information on the internet.
