What are Third Party Applications?
Third party applications are programs written to work within operating systems, but are written by individuals or companies other than the provider of the operating system. For example, Microsoft™ systems come packed with several software applications. Of these, any program authored by Microsoft is a first party application. Any program authored by a different company or an individual is a third party application; the same being true for Apple™ and Linux™ systems. In this equation the second party is the user. Third party applications can be standalone programs or they can be small plugins that add functionality to an existing parent program. The former category is endless. On a typical system, standalone third party applications include tens of dozens of programs. Web browsers like Opera™, Safari™ and Firefox™; and email clients like Thunderbird™, The Bat!™, and Pegasus™ are some examples of popular standalone third party applications. Most anti-virus programs, firewalls, multimedia p
