What is a software?
Software refers to the program that we run on our computer systems.
Software is made up of series of instructions which tell the hardware to do something useful e.g. to print a document, save a file or display a webpage.
Software Categories
There are two main categories of a computer software. They are:
1. System Software - controls the performance of the computer system or provides commonly used facilities. E.g. :
* The Operating System
* A compiler
* Utility programs
* Drivers
2. Application Software - programs that you use to do work on the computer like typing a letter, calculating budget and so on. E.g. :
* Word Processing
* Spreadsheet
* Database
* Graphics packages
* Presentation Software/Authoring Tool
* Web Browsers
More details on Application Software
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