What is Computer Software?

As defined by www.webopedia.com, Software exists as ideas, concepts and symbols, but it has no substance.

Software is composed of computer instructions or data. Anything that can be stored electronically is software.

Software can be grouped into two areas; system software and applications software.

 System software includes operating systems and all utilities that enable your computer to function.

 Applications software includes programs that do real work for users. Examples of this type of software are word processors, spreadsheets and email programs.

 The pages and the ink in a book is like hardware, while the words, sentences and paragraphs, and the overall meaning of the text is like software. A computer without software is like a book full of blank pages – you need software [or text in this example] to make it useful or meaningful.

 Both hardware and software are equally important. Without one there is no point in having the other.  

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