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Software

Applications or programs that run on a computer and give the computer instructions or data (e.g. Microsoft Office is a productivity suite which includes software for writing documents - word processing - Microsoft Word. Microsoft Windows and Linux are examples of Operating System software - software which allows a computer to work).

Related glossary terms

Linux, Operating System, Software

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