Mieczyslaw smigiel
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What Is The Difference Between Application And Software?
Software is a set of computer programs and information that you need to instruct the computer what to do. An application is something that a computer does, such as word processing, so you need software - which may be called application software - in order to make the application work.
Mieczyslaw smigiel
Mieczyslaw smigiel voted up
What Is The Difference Between Application And Software?

Software is an all-encompassing term that is used in contrast to hardware, which are the tangible components of a computer. So everything else in your computer that is not hardware is software. An application is basically a type of software. So the difference between software and application is very much like the difference between a … Read more