What is Software?
We are living in an information society where most people are engaged in activities connected with either producing or collecting data, or or gangling, processing and storing data, and retrieving and disseminating stored information, or using such information for decision making. Great developments have taken place in computer hardware technology, but the key to make this technology useful to humans lies with the software technology. In recent years software industry is exhibiting the highest growth rate throughout the world, India being no exception. Software is the general term for information that's recorded onto some kind of medium. For example, when you go to the video store and rent or buy a tape or DVD, what you're really getting is the software that's stored on that tape or disk. Your VCR or DVD player are hardware devices that are capable of reading the software from a tape or disk and projecti...