Software
Presentationby Afreen
Aqeel

Application
Software
&
System Soft
ware

Utility Software
• Utility software is software designed to help
analyze, configure, optimize or maintain
a computer. It is used to support the
computer infrastructure - in contrast to
application software, which is aimed at directly
performing tasks that benefit ordinary users.
• Utility Software performs certain tasks like virus
detection, installation, and uninstallation, data
backup, deletion of unwanted files, etc.
• Utility software is important for managing the
computer systems and performing their key
maintenance tasks
• Some examples are antivirus software, file
managementtools, compression tools, disk
managementtools, etc.

Operating
Software
• An operating system is system software
that manages computer hardware and
software resources, and provides common
services for computer programs.
• The application programs make use of the
operating system by making requests for
services through a defined application
program interface (API).
• It acts as a bridge for the interface
between man and machine.
• Examples of Operating System are:
Windows Linux BOSS etc.