The most important software component for many component users today us the once simple and limited, but now powerful and feature rich, Web browser.
A browser like Microsoft Explorer, Safari or Mozilla Firefox is the key software interface you use to point and click you’re your through the hyperlinked resources of the World Wide Web and the rest of the Internet, as well as corporate intranets and extranets.
Once limited to surfing the Web, browsers are becoming the universal software platform on which end users launch into information searches, E-mail, multimedia file transfer, discussion groups, and many other Internet, intranet, and extranet applications.
Industry experts already predicted that the Web browser would be the model how most people will use networked computer in the future.
So now, whether the people want to watch a video, make a phone call, download some software, hold a video conference, check e-mail or work on a spreadsheet of the team’s business plan, people can use browser to launch and host such applications.
That’s why browsers are being called the universal client, that is, the software component installed in the workstations of all the clients (users) in client/server networks throughout an enterprise.
End User Applications: Web Browser
