Back in the day, we had programs. I upgraded to Win 10 and all my programs are now apps.
“Apps” AFAIK is technically short for “applications”, and they were calling programs “applications” way back during Windows 3.1 IINM, even though the main window of that OS shell (MS-DOS was the actual OS) was dubbed “Program Manager”.
App = application = program.
Dude, U R Sooo OLD....