We can also say that the system software serves as an interface between the hardware in a system and application software. It is also called as general purpose software.

Most of the components, software code structures, operating system connections, data services and interconnectivity channels that exist in an application could (and usually should) also exist in a ...

So there is evidently a difference between a (software) product and a platform – and there is evidently a new definition of what we should consider a technology platform to be.

Difference between system software and application software System software provides the platform for running any application or application software.