Why does software dominate the world?

It is easy to see that software is the king in the digital age today because of its widespread presence anywhere. What motivated the strong development of software technology?

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Microsoft - the giant in software and technology.

- Most of today's big names, from Google, Facebook, and Twitter to Microsoft and Apple, are software development companies. Even the HP hardware giant has recently announced its focus on software development.

- The birth of the first personal computer - IBM 5150 has changed history. Personal computers have gradually become an integral part of people's daily lives. This has led to the rapid development of software running on personal computers.

- In the 1990s, the internet became popular and helped the development of the software turn to a new page, freeing the software from the hardware platform but it still had to "stick" to operate.

- The emergence of smart phones, combined with previous factors such as personal computers and internet, has helped the software to rise strongly and dominate the number one position.

In today's digital age, you can see that software is present everywhere in our lives. From the road to the house, from the school office to the family, from work, study to entertainment, shopping even in national security also use software. It seems that they are an integral part of every city, every country.

Along with the popularity of software types is the rise of companies making them. They have taken the leading position in the technology industry in place of previous hardware manufacturing companies.

More specifically, the world's leading technology corporations, currently Google, Microsoft, Apple or new forces emerging from the internet are Facebook and Twitter social networks, all of which are software development companies. .

It is clear that Facebook, Twitter, and Google are software companies because they rely heavily on internet advertising, their products - which they develop and maintain are web-based applications.

As for Microsoft, they also produce a number of peripheral devices such as mice and keyboards, but his major revenue is software: Windows operating system, Microsoft Office office suite or Microsoft SQL Sever database management system.

Many people will say Apple is a hardware company when Apple is the publisher of products such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook, Mac PC . But the fact that they have not manually made devices for a long time, instead, design them and order them at manufacturers like Foxcon, SamSung and then put their labels on and sell them to the market. The real product made by Apple is the iOS, Mac OS X operating system and the software that runs on the above devices.

Even the company that is currently leading in the production of computers and gadgets like HP recently announced to give up its strength to focus on software development. You can see that the software world is slowly taking over the entire modern world with extremely high profits. So why can they grow so quickly and vigorously?

To find the solution to this question, let's go back to the peak period of hardware companies about 30 years ago. The launch of the world's first PC - Personal Computer made by IBM (the boss of the time) called 5150 is a brilliant milestone in technology village history.

Previously, computers were only used as a database to store many types of records and simple calculations in the national administrative apparatus and powerful corporations. The IBM 5150 PC has overcome that barrier, bringing information technology to the hands of individual users - opening up a new history, marking the rapid development of hardware companies.

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IBM 5150, the first PC in history.

The convenience of computers has made it widely used in many types of jobs and then spread to the entertainment field and since it has become an indispensable part of life. human.

Of course, the rapid development in both the number and hardware configuration of the computer also entails breakthroughs of many kinds of application software running on it.

There are many examples of software applications to life, such as office software (Microsoft Office, Open Office) that can create, store, modify documents and data easily. Learn through slide lectures, play games, listen to music to watch movies for entertainment.

Even the art fields use computers: you may find that photo retouching and image cleaning were done in dark rooms before, but now photographers can edit them on the computer. computer in photoshop and print it immediately.

The defense industry uses specialized software to control radar, calculate the speed, distance and direction of flying objects to determine whether it is an airplane or a missile, whether it violates the law and whether it is dangerous danger to the country .

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Computer development entails the development of software.

Now you can see that software development is hardware-based, but it cannot be explained why it can rise above the platform that it has to 'stick to' to work.

And the solution here is: communication. In the 199x years, the internet began to spread around the world and it created new advances in software technology: websites were constantly growing all over the place, and the applications were also available. a new release method is much faster to reach users than traditional disk sales, which is download online.

Companies that publish software, music and movies online become popular, even far beyond those that make them directly. Typical examples are Apple iTunes, Sotify and Pandora - digital music publishing sites on the Internet that sell more than retailers like Sony BMG. Nearly the record company is only a source for the way to sell via the internet.

But an extensive internet network is still not strong enough to help software surpass hardware.

The world entered the 21st century, when mobile phone networks became extremely popular, after only a few years of development, everyone owned a mobile phone. In the beginning, there were not many applications running on the 'talking brick' and it only met the communication needs.

Then the advancement in the hardware manufacturing industry has helped a small but powerful device that smartphones appear. And that resonates with what is already available on the computer, the internet has really pushed the software industry forward rapidly and aggressively to dominate the number one position.

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You can use the software to do anything anywhere.

Now, you use software to entertain, communicate, work anytime, anywhere with a smartphone, laptop, desktop and programmable devices. We can easily download applications, music files, movies, photos . exchanged with friends via the internet.

Even shopping for shoping can be done online via online sales websites like Amazon or eBay. Searching for information has Google, Bing, Yahoo. Play games with a series of webgames from Zynga or minigames from many other developers. Select hundreds of thousands of books to read . You can do these anywhere through mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

As the world grows, the advances of technology will accelerate the development of hardware and telecommunications devices and it is certain that the dominant era of software will continue until people disappear. unless there are strange breakthroughs.