| A computer
program that is made up of certain instructions or codes that tell
your hardware, or computer, what to do. Software can be used to play
games, write school papers, or even sort your
email. Software is
a general term for the various kinds of programs used to operate
computers and related devices. (The term hardware describes the
physical aspects of computers and related devices.) Software can be
thought of as the variable part of a computer and hardware the
invariable part. Software is often divided into application software
(programs that do work users are directly interested in) and system
software (which includes operating systems and any program that
supports application software). The term middleware is sometimes
used to describe programming that mediates between application and
system software or between two different kinds of application
software (for example, sending a remote work request from an
application in a computer that has one kind of operating system to
an application in a computer with a different operating system). |
