hardware and software

software

a set of instruction that tells the computer what to do..
a set of instruction given to the computer to solve a problem is called software.
software is also called program.different software are used to perform different tasks.computer are performs those task which are given to computer.

hardware.

the physical component of computer system is called hardware.hardware can be seen and touched.

    a software connot execute any task without hardware and a hardware is useless with out software.a computer work only when hardware and software are combined

types of software

software are divided into following categories

1:- System software

2:- Application software...

System software

System software is set of programs that are used to control and manage the computer hardware.it control the basic operations as follow.

* Saving data on disk

* Making computer ro work for us

* Printing a documents etc

Examples of system software...

operating system ( windows , UNIX , DOS etc )

Device drivers

Utilities programs

Application software

Application software are used to perform various applications on computer system.it help a computer user to perform specific tasks.People use application software according to their use.

Ms word , adobe photoshop are some example of application software.