For nearly five decades, just being able to get software to run on hardware and communicate with other systems was considered a feat of engineering. But with that part of the technology solved well ...

Software that processes data for the user. Except for "system software," which provides the infrastructure in the computer (operating system, utilities and related components), all software programs ...

A set of instructions by which an application program (a complete program that performs a specific function directly for the user) can access the computer's operating system. This term was viewed ...