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Software

Software is short for computer software. It means the applications and operating systems used with computers. The term first used in the late 1960s to show the difference from computer hardware, the fixed parts of a machine. Before compact discs (CD's) or Internet downloads, applications and OS's came on soft media like magnetic discs and magnetic tape.

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