Programs that manage, repair, and optimize data on a computer. You can also buy Third Party utilities, which means a different company made them than made the Operating System. These are pieces of Applications Software that mostly deal with managing data. The Operating System also comes with utilities. This makes it the most important piece of software on the computer. It makes sure that the Hardware and the Applications Software understand each other. The Operating System runs the computer and the Applications Software. Examples include: Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, or 7), any flavor of Linux, and Mac OS X (An apple version of Unix).Īlso called user programs, pieces of applications software do the specific things you want. There are two kinds of software: the System Software which includes the Operating System and Applications Software.Ībbreviated OS, the Operating System is the resource manager which transforms sectors, bytes, interrupts and ports into files, folders, processes, and the user-interfaces with which you can interact. Software is the set of instructions that tell a computer what it needs to do.
