Difference Between Application & Software

Being a Computer User, we should know some of the basic terms or terminologies that we generally used on the time of working with our Systems(Computers).
So, today i am going to discuss on the topic of Application Vs Software...
These two terms are very confusing and most of the people are unable to differentiate it.

So,Computer is a combination of Hardware and Software..
Hardware is a part of the computer the we see and touch,like keyboard,mouse ,screen, infact the hard drive that is inside your system is also a hardware where as Software is a part of the computer that we cannot see or touch, it can be only feel..like ms paint,vlc music player etc.


Now, the software is divided into three parts

1. Application Software
2. System Software
3. Utillity Software

◘ Application Software -

Application Software is the software which allows users to do things like creating text documents, playing games, listening to music or viewing websites.

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Application software helps users to solve a particular problem or carry out a specific task, like creating text documents, playing games, listening to music or viewing websites.

Examples -
Microsoft Office
Adobe Photoshop
Windows and other Media Player
Web Browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome

◘ System Software -

System software manages the activities and functions between hardware and software, and it controls the operations on computer system. A computer's operating system is an example of system software. Operating systems control the computer hardware and act as an interface between User and  Application.

Examples -

Any Operating System

Windows 2000,xp,7,8,10 etc

Linux (Any distribution)

Mac o/s

◘ Utility Software -

Basically the concept of Utility Software is vanised...because all the utility software is come with Allpiction or System Software.(include with app & system)
Utility software is system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer. A single piece of utility software is usually called a utility or tool.

Examples -
Anti-virus utilities
Backup utilities
Data compression utilities
Disk checkers
Disk cleaners
Disk defragmenters
Disk partitions
Network utilities