Definition Of Software

Software is defined as collection of programs i.e., large group of Instructions that are written to generate a required information OR It can be defined as “The automatic

programming techniques and procedures for utilizing the

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CLASSIFICATION OF SOFTWARE

Software

System Software

Development

SoftwareService/Utility

SoftwareApplication

Software

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SYSTEM SOFTWARE

System Software is computer software designed to operate the computer hardware and to provide a platform for running application software .It includes diagnostic tools, compliers, servers, windowing systems, utilities, language translator, data communication programs, database system and more. One of the important system software is an Operating System. Operating System governs all the activities of the computer. 55

Examples: Windows XP Windows 7 Windows Vista Ms DOS Linux Unix Mac OSX Windows 10 etc.

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SPECIFIC KINDS OF SYSTEM SOFTWARE INCLUDE

Loaders Linkers Utility Software Desktop environment/Graphical user

interface Shells BIOS Boot Loaders Hyper visors Database Management System (SQL, NoSQL)

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APPLICATION SOFTWARE

Application Software, is also known as an application or an “app”, is computer software designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks. It helps to solve problems in the real world. Application Software usually come in form of packages and are regularly revised and updated with the increase in business needs and automation trends. It provides facilities like editing, processing, formatting and synthesizing for text, graphics, sound, video. 88

EXAMPLES Graphics: Auto-CAD, Or-Cad, Paintbrush etc

(This package allows the user to draft and design different graphics)

Word Processing: MS-Word, Page maker, Atlantis etc. These are used in editing in text matter)

Spreadsheet: MS-Excel,Lotus-123 etc. (These packages are used to generate Financial and Accounting purpose)

Presentation: MS-Power point (These Software are used for presentation)

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In Information technology, an application is a computer program designed to help people perform an activity. An application thus differs from an operating system, a utility, and a programming language (with which computer programs are created). Depending on the activity for which it was designed, an application can manipulate text, numbers, graphics, or a combination of these elements. Some application packages offer considerable computing power by focusing on single task, such as word processing; others, called integrated software, offer somewhat less power but include several applications User-written software tailors systems to meet the user’s specific needs.

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DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE

These software provide a program development environment and help the user to develop all new kinds of software. These are the basic tools from which all different kinds of application as well as operating system software can be developed.

Examples C C++ Java SQL 1111

UTILITY SOFTWARE

Utility Software is a kind of system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize, and maintain the computer. Utility Software should be contrasted with application software, which allows users to do things like creating text documents, playing games, listening music and suffering web. Rather than providing these kinds of user-oriented or output-oriented functionality, Utility software usually focuses on how the computer infrastructure (including the computer hardware, operating system, application software, and data storage) operates. Due to this focus, Utilities are often rather technical and targeted at people with an advanced level of computer. Some Utility software suites that combine several features in one piece of software. Most major Operating systems with several pre-installed utilities.

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EXAMPLES

Turbo C Computer MASM BASIC Interpreter

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UTILITY SOFTWARE CATEGORIES Disk Storage utilities. Disk space analyzers for the visualization of disk

space usage by getting the size for each folder (including sub folders) & files in folder or drive. Showing the distribution of the used space.

Backup Utilities can make a copy all information stored on a disk, and restore either the entire (e.g. in an event disk failure) or selected files (e.g. in an event of accidental deletion).

Disk Compression utilities can transparently compress/uncompress the contents of the disk, increasing the capacity of the disk

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Anti-virus utilities scan for computer viruses.

Network Utilities analyze the computer’s network connectivity, configure network settings, check network settings, check data transfer or log events.

File Managers provide a convenient method of performing routine data management tasks, such as deleting, renaming, cataloging, moving, copying, merging, generating and modifying data sets.

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