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Metro2
08/08/17 7:00:00 AM
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I want to download a program on my phone.
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HypnoCoosh
08/08/17 7:01:47 AM
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Check out my new prog man
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Chicken
08/08/17 7:04:22 AM
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Programs are still programs on PC despite Microsoft doing everything in their power to change it.
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tripZ504
08/08/17 7:13:08 AM
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If you want to get technical tc your still wrong. Its called software
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ChromaticAngel
08/08/17 7:37:16 AM
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Thugstar
08/08/17 7:56:42 AM
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Because "there's an app for that" became a thing. And M$ copied and failed in every way.
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CableZL
08/08/17 8:05:46 AM
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Programs are applications, and "app" is short for that.

Also largely because of Apple.
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StickFigures720
08/08/17 10:47:53 AM
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.exe is actually another name for application.
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ChromaticAngel
08/08/17 11:05:34 AM
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StickFigures720 posted...
.exe is actually another name for application.


no.

.exe is a file extension that means MS-DOS / Windows Executable File
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DevsBro
08/08/17 11:06:29 AM
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Programs are applications, and "app" is short for that.

Also largely because of Apple.

This exactly.
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Veggeta_MAX
08/08/17 11:07:10 AM
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Servers are now called Clouds
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DevsBro
08/08/17 11:08:29 AM
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Servers are now called Clouds

Which is super weird to me because cloud computing is so much broader a field than just file storage.
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Solid Sonic
08/08/17 11:17:50 AM
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The phrase "killer app" has been around since the early days of consumer computing, though.
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