Software Industry Information...

The software industry consists of businesses involved in the creation, maintenance and publication of PC software using any business archetype. The industry additionally includes software services, such as training, documentation, and consulting. The leading and most profitable of software companies are based in the US. As of 2008, the client software industry is primarily controlled by Microsoft. Software Magazine’s...

Educational Software...

The primary objective of educational software is instruction or self-learning.  The usage of PC hardware and software in education and training dates to the early 1940s, when American researchers created flight simulators which used analog computers to simulate onboard instrument data. One such approach was the type19 mock radar trainer, built in 1943. From these first attempts in the WWII era through the mid 1970s,...