Software is computer code that tells a computer how to perform a specific task. Software can include operating systems, applications, and malware.

Practical computer systems divide software into three major classes: system software, programming software and application software, although the distinction is arbitrary, and often blurred.

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This was clearly terrible, so to make it easier for programmers, Operating Systems stepped in as intermediaries between software programs and hardware peripherals.

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