♠ Software

Software

As described earlier, the software is a part of the computer you cannot touch but is very important. The software is all the programming or instructions that makes the computer run; controlling everything that the computer does. There are two kinds of software that help the computer run:

1. Operating Systems 

2. Applications 

An Operating System is the base program on a computer. It tells the computer how to work or operate. The operating system also allow you to load other programs that do specialized tasks on to your computer.

example

• Microsoft Windows 

• Apple’s Mac OS

• Applications are programs put onto the computer to do specialized tasks.

example

  Word and WordPerfect

  (used to type letters and more complicated documents) 

Explorer and Netscape

(used to explore the Internet)