Types of Software

Computer hardware in itself cannot perform any useful task. It must be complemented with some instructions which the hardware understands and obeys. A program is the name given to a list of instructions or statements that direct the computer to performed the required tasks. If you talk about it in general, as long as there is some kind of software for it, be it an application to view the videos, an email client, a social networking site, there is software involved. People generally don’t use their hands anymore. Like any software, you are creating more jobs. A simple example is that you take a cellphone picture, but with Photoshop, it is a photo that you put together. It is a lot of software. I think that the first software used on a regular basis was a typewriter, and since then, that has remained.

System Software

System software, or system packages are sets of one or more programs that are basically designed to control the operation of a computer system. In general system packages control the following:

• Running of other software packages.
• Communicating with peripheral devices such as printers, hard disk and tape devices, etc.
• Monitoring the use of various hardware resources such as memory, peripherals, C.P.U,  etc.

Application Software

• Application software is a program or group of programs designed for end users. Application software packages later to the need of a specific group of users namely, software for scientist, for inventory control, for school administration, for library management, etc.
• The application software in turn talk with the system software for their execution.