The purposes of an application software: Use as a business and productive tool To support education, entertainment, and other personal needs To support communication technologies To assist with graphics and multimedia projects To support desktop publishing For examples word processing used to type a letter, spreadsheet for doing budgets, database management used for creating tables, etc. System Software – programs that control the over all operations of the computer system, including the hardware components and the application software.Ĥ Application Software Application Software are programs that perform specific tasks or solve particular problems.
It gives life to the hardware components of the computer.ģ Types of Software Software can be classified into two main types, which are: Application Software – programs that allows the computer to perform specific tasks.
2 Software Software is the general name given to all the programs (or set of instructions) that direct the operations of the computer.
