Kinds of Application Software

Kinds of application software:

Productivity software, which includes word processor s, spreadsheet s, and tools for use by most computer users

Presentation software

Graphics software for graphic designers

CAD/CAM  software

Specialized scientific applications

Vertical market  or industry-specific software (for example, for banking, insurance, retail, and manufacturing environments)

Firmware  or microcode is programming that is loaded into a special area on amicroprocessor  or read-only memory  on a one-time or infrequent basis so that thereafter it seems to be part of the hardware.

What is Software?

Software is a general term for the various kinds of program s used to operate computer s 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 system s 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).