A brief differentiation on System and Application Software

SOFTWARE: Software is a set of instructions, data or programs that are used to operate computers and carry out different specific tasks. Depending on its use, Software is basically categorized into two:-

1. System Software: The software that interfaces between application software and the system. It also maintains the system resources and gives path for application software to run. Since its a general purpose software, its important that without it system cannot run.

 

IOS 13 = Operating system of Apple.

Windows XP= operating system by Microsoft

System software includes different sort of operating systems in its type.

2. Application Software: Application software is the specialized software that runs as per user’s request. Its a specific purpose software that runs on the platform provided by the system software.

Application software includes Youtube, VLC, photoshop, Uber, facebook etc. 

VLC Media player

Foodpanda

Facebook and Insstagram

DIFFERENTIATION OR COMPARISON:

System software maintains the system resources whereas the application software is built for specific tasks. In case of language, system requires low level language but application requires high level language.

System software is a general purpose software whereas application software are designed for specific purposes.

Without system software system can’t run while system software runs only when the system is on. On the contrary, application software runs only as per the user’s request.

System software includes different operating systems in its type and application software includes Youtube, VLC, photoshop, Uber, facebook etc.