Applications Software

Question 1

What is locally installed software?

Answer 1

Software that is installed onto your local computer

Question 2

What is Hosted Software?

Answer 2

Software that runs on a web server over the internet.

Question 3

Advantages of Locally installed software?

Answer 3

Works without being online
You hold the license to use the software
You control access to the computer so security is good.

Question 4

Disadvantages of locally installed software?

Answer 4

Take up a large amount of file space
Must download and install upgrades and patches to fix bugs
All data is stored locally so it has to be backed up.

Question 5

Advantages of Hosted software?

Answer 5

Software dosent take up any file space on your computer.

Allows users from different parts of the world to work on the same document at the same time.