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Software Maintenance

By David Peover 14101902

The overall objective of software maintenance is to help the customer use all the activities of the software that they have bought or that they have had developed.

Software maintenance begins at the start of the development process and continues right the way through to the delivery stage and effectively never actually ends. The reason that software maintenance continues even after the product is finished is because of the different levels that software maintenance has. One such example is updating software. It can be easier to update software than to write a completely new program. One company that does this is Microsoft. Microsoft continually update all of there programs from windows through to internet explorer. The most obvious maintenance to any of their products would be their updates to the windows program. For example windows 95 was updated to windows 98 and so on. Microsoft will continue to maintain windows into t...