Software - the real power of your computer system

by Gurpreet Sekhon

Software is the short name given to computer software. Anything, which can be stored automatically, is known as software. Both hardware and software are different from each other. Without hardware, software is useless and without software, hardware is nothing.

Software gives instructions to the computer system what to do. Some examples of software are Picture Easy, Word and Photo shop. All the programs, practices, system and any citations related with the operation of a system are known as software.

There are mainly two different types of computer software: system software and application software. It is very important to know the exact difference between the two.

The software that makes your computer work is system software. It is also known as operating system software. System software includes all the programs that organize and hold up functions of your computer system. It comprises a variety of programs, which includes communication control programs, DBMS, operating system and programming language translators. It acts as the mediator between the computer hardware and application programs.

Application software carries out the dedicated tasks of the user. It processes the computer data and hold-up users in an organization. Some examples of application software are word processors, spreadsheets and database management systems, various engineering packages, groupware like Lotus Notes etc.

The computer software is totally different from computer hardware. Hardware means the physical components of a computer system. The computer software cannot work without hardware because it is needed to store and run the computer software. Computer software is mainly loaded in computer memory RAM (random access memory) and executed in the central processing unit (CPU). Generally, high-level languages are used to write computer software.

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