SOFTWARE

Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions.  It can not be touched. Hardware and other task does not work without Software.

Software  types

*System software 
*Application Software
*Utility software

*System software is computer software or an operating system designed to operate and control the computer hardware, The   DOS, Windows, UNIX  and other device driver, language translator (interpreter, compiler) are examples of system software. See Images

*Application Software is computer software Designed to help the user to perform specific tasks , Ms-Word,Ms-Excel, Powerpoint ,Photoshop and other specific task are examples of Application software. See Images      See Images

 

*Utility software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer.    Anti virus, scandisk, Norton disk doctor , file manager , backup utilities and   others is example of utilities software. See Images