System software and application software are computer programs. The system software is also installed during the installation of the operating system. This was installed during the installation of operating system. Computer software is classified into two types:

Software Application Application programs are the most commonly used programs in computer language.

• Computer software is totally different from hardware, which surrounds the physical interconnections and devices required to store, whereas, executable code consists of machine language instructions specific to an individual processor.


• Software Application is divided into two classes and is used to perform singular or multiple tasks.

Types of Software Application

Enterprise software

• Enterprise software explains the requirements of organization, procedure and information stream regularly in a large distributed environment.


• Departmental software is the sub-type of Enterprise software. It concentrates on small organizations within a large organization.
  Examples: Financial management, customer relationship, etc.

Enterprise infrastructure software

• Enterprise infrastructure software can provide potentiality to support the enterprise software systems.
  Examples: Email servers, Network and security management.

Information worker software

• This software is used to generate and manage the information regularly for individual.
  Examples: Resource management, Word processors.

Content access software

• This software labels the necessity of groups to hide the digital entertainment and digital content.
  Examples: Media players, Web browsers.

Educational software

• This software is similar to the content access software, but the only difference is adoption of the content.


• Educational software includes multimedia and increases the level of interactivity.
  Examples: Educational games, Tutorial software.

Simulation software

• This software simulates the abstract system for entertainment purpose. It depends on the procedure of modeling a genuine wonder with a set of mathematical formulas.
  Examples: Weather conditions, Chemical reactions.

Media development software

• Addresses the necessities of people who generate print and electronic media in an educational sector. This contains Desktop Publishing Software, HTML editors, and Digital Animation editors.
  Example: Multimedia development software

Product engineering software

• This Software is used to develop software and hardware products. It includes computer aided design; computer aided engineering, and integrated development environments.
  Examples: Digital camera, smart phone

Firmware

• This software is used to indicate little projects and data structure that control different electronic gadgets. Embedded system consists firmware at more than one level.


• Generally a simple firmware occupies in ROM or PROM while composite firmware into the devices intended by the end user.

Middleware Middleware is a general term for programming that serves to regular programs. Some production parts that are regularly associated with middleware include web administrations.

• Middleware is similar to the middle layer of three-tier single system architecture. It is computer software that connects software components and applications. It lies between application software and operating system.


• This is associated with two sides of an application and passes information between them.
  Example: TCP/IP stack for telecommunication.

System Software System software is a "low-level" computer software primarily designed to run the computer hardware and application programs. In other words, it is a software/program created to cater services to other software. It generates the user interface and allows the operating system to interact with the hardware.
Examples: Operating System, Compilers, and Assemblers
BIOS

• BIOS stands for Basic input / output system.


• BIOS manages the data flow between the operating system and devices. System software includes compilers, loaders, and linker.


• BIOS is used to boot a system for additional features.


• BIOS sets the machine equipment into a known state, so that product put away on perfect media can be loaded, executed and given control of the PC, this is called as booting.


• Operating system provides a platform to run high-level system software.