Software

Computer software, also called software, is a set of instructions and its documentations that tells a computer what to do or how to perform a task.

Software includes all different software programs on a computer, such as applications and the operating system.

The operating system (like Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Android and various Linux distributions) is a layer of software that is used as a platform for running the applications, and controls all user interface tools including display and the keyboard.

The word software was first used in the late 1960s to emphasize on its difference from computer hardware, which can be physically observed by the user.

Software is a set of instructions that the computer follows.

Before compact discs (CDs) or development of the Internet age, software was used on various computer data storage media tools like paper punch cards, magnetic discs or magnetic tapes.

The word firmware is sometimes used to describe a style of software that is made specifically for a particular type of computer or an electronic device and is usually stored on a Flash memory or ROM chip in the computer.

Firmware usually refers to a piece of software that directly controls a piece of hardware.

Today, software has become an important part of our lives.

Software is used everywhere.

Software engineers are responsible for producing fault-free software which has literally become an essential part of our daily lives.

Changeability and conformity are two of the main properties of software design.

There are also different processing models for designing software including Build and Fix, Waterfall and Agile software processing design methods.

The different types of software can be put into categories based on common function, type, or field of use.

Application software are the computer programs for performing user tasks such as word processing and web browsers.

System software is used to start and run computer systems and networks.

Computer programming tools (also known as development software) are used to create application and system software.

Today we're here to look at 25 amazing facts about this undeniably successful and impressive piece of software.

In November 2007, Google launched the Linux-based software system, Android OS.

It uses software to produce images, sounds and other sensations to create a different place.

This was a breakthrough in operating software as it replaced text interfaces with graphical interfaces.

By contrast, software is instructions that can be stored and ran by hardware.

Hardware is directed by the software to execute any command or instruction.

A combination of hardware and software forms a usable computing system.

Bloomberg LP is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Bloomberg LP provides financial software tools and enterprise applications such as analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg Terminal (via its Bloomberg Professional Service), its core revenue-generating product.

The X in the name Xbox comes from Windows' DirectX software that the OS.

Microsoft employees' gender balance is at almost 3/4 male to female according to one list in 2015, the average software engineer gets $106,000.