WHAT IS SOFTWARE? CLASSIFICATION OF SOFTWARE'?

.SOFTWARE 

         -  COMBINATION OF MORE THAN ONE PROGRAM IS KNOWN AS SOFTWARE WHICH CAN BE DEVELOPED TO ACCOMPLISH SPECTIFIC TASK AND SET OF INSTRUCTION KNOWN AS PROGRAM

. CLASSIFICATION OF SOFTWARE  

- SOFTWARE IS CLASSIFIED INTO THREE CATEGORY DISCUSSED BELOW ;

1. APPLICATION SOFTWARE 

2, UTILITY SOFTWARE

3, SYSTEM SOFTWARE

. APPLICATION SOFTWARE

. AN APPLICATION SOFTWARE IS DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED TO ACCOMPLISH ONE OR 

  MORE SPECIFIC TASK OR SOLVE A PARTICULAR PROBLEMS THESE SOFTWARE WRITTEN OR DEVELOPED BY PROGRAMMER TO ENABLE COMPUTER TO PERFORM SPECIFIC TASK SUCH AS PROCESSING WORD HANDLING CALCULATION ETC.

 - APPLICATION SOFTWARE DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS 

1. GENERAL PURPOSE APPLICATION SOFTWARE 

  PACKAGE PROVIDED SPECIFIC CAPABILTIES BUT NOT IN SUPPORT OF SPECIFIC PURPOSE E.G. SPREED SHEET PACKAGE, WORD PROCESSOR DESKTOP PUBLISHING SOFTWARE ETC.

2. SPECIFIC PURPOSE APPLICATION SOFTWARE- IS A MORE LIMITED IN WHAT IT WILL DO BUT IT ACTUALLY  DOES THAT ONE THING MUCH BETTER THAN A GENERAL PROGRAM E.G ACCOUNTING PACKAGE INVERTING.

. UTILITY SOFTWARE

- A  UTILITY PROGRAM HELP MANAGE .  MAINTAIN AND CONTROL COMPUTER RESOURCES .  IT PERFORM  TASK RELATED TO THE MAINTAIN OF YOUR COMPUTER HEALTH HARDWARE OR DATA . THEY THE THE HELPFUL PROGRAM THAT ENSURE SMOOTH FUNCTION OF THE COMPUTER E.G BACKUP UTILITY , ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM FILE \ FOLDER MANAGEMENT ETC.

. SYSTEM SOFTWARE

- SYSTEM SOFTWARE HELP RUN THE COMPUTER HARDWARE AND SYSTEM . IT IS DESIGNED TO CONTROL THE OPERATION OF A COMPUTER AND CO- ORDINATE ALL EXTERNAL DEVICES LIKE COMMUNICATION DEVICES , PRINTERS,KEYBOARD , DISPLAY UNIT ETC. IT MANAGES ALL THE COMPUTER RESOURCES LIKE MEMORY AND PROCESSOR TIME IN OPTIMAL AND STABLE MANNER.

IT CONSIST OF VARIETY OF PROGRAM THAT  SUPPORT THE OPERATION OF THE COMPUTER , SOME COMMON TYPE OF SYSTEM SOFTWARE ARE-OPERATING SYSTEM. LANGUAGE PROCESSOR DEVICE DRIVER , SERVER PROGRAM ETC.