Apps., Software, OS too many variation.... Different Software Explained!

   Now a day, we are too much familiar with the apps. which is the abbreviation of application software. Everybody uses applications in their smartphones as well as PCs to perform different tasks. There are different types of software available in the computing system.  This article describes about software and its types.

Every computing device is made of two things - hardware and software. Hardware is made of metals and plastics which we can touch such as mother board, processor, battery, display, physical body etc. On the other hand, software is the programming part. Software puts life in the hardware. Thus, software is called life of the computing devices. Software is basically set of instructions which tells the computer that how to work to complete a specific task. To built a software, different programming language is used such as C++, JAVA etc. 

Software broadly divided into two types - System Software and Application Software. 

System Software -

System software is a set of programs that operates, manages the behavior of the different computer hardware. This is the mother software which allows the different application software to run on the system. System software also instructs the other software like drivers and utility software about how to work on the system. System software provides a platform to the specific task based application software and software packages. In our computer and mobile devices, system software is the operating system which we install. There are several operating systems such as Windows from Microsoft, Mac OS from Apple and Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu, Debian etc. In the mobile devices, there are also operating systems like Android, iOS etc. These operating system provides an programmed architecture or programmed environment which allows to run those specific task based application software which match the environment. These system software includes the drivers and utility software. 

Drivers are basically a set of programs which instructs to run different devices and which is attached with the computer. These software usually connects the device with the operating system. We can found these drivers while we use printers, scanners, audio devices, wireless devices etc.

Utility software is also design to support the operating systems and also maintain the computer. These software is built for preforming direct tasks which can helps the users. These utility software comes with the operating system but users can replace these. Utility software includes file managers, disk cleaners, anti-virus, debuggers etc. 

Application Software - 

An application software is called any program or group of programs that built for end-users. This is the software which is built for complete specific tasks. These application software also called as apps. Application software runs on the system software, by which user used these to complete their tasks. For example, we use web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge to browse the Internet; we use word processors to make a document such as Microsoft Word, Abi word, LibreOffice Writer etc.; we use audio players to listen songs and video players to watch videos such as VLC, KM Player etc. These all are the application software which we run on our operating systems to perform different tasks. 

When this application software comes in bundle which contains two or more application, then it is called application package. We are very familiar with the application packages of different office suites. An office suite is an application package which contains some applications such as writer, spread sheet, presentation, database software, painting tool, notepad etc.