Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history...
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Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright...
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Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users...
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Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications...
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Software testing is the act of checking whether software satisfies expectations. Software testing can provide objective, independent information about...
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Application software is any computer program that is intended for end-user use – not operating, administering or programming the computer. An application...
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The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists...
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id Software LLC (/ɪd/) is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer...
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Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set that runs on Windows, macOS, BSD, Haiku, IRIX and Linux. It is used for creating...
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Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study,...
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virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. The service has both free and premium tiers. The software that hosts the containers...
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Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each...
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Software categories are groups of software. They allow software to be understood in terms of those categories, instead of the particularities of each...
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A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...
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Software verification is a discipline of software engineering, programming languages, and theory of computation whose goal is to assure that software...
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Wiki software (also known as a wiki engine or a wiki application) is collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows the users to create and collaboratively...
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Standalone software may refer to: Computer programs that can work offline, i.e. does not necessarily require network connection to function Software that is...
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Programmer (redirect from Software developers)
with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software developer and software engineer are used for jobs that require a programmer. Sometimes...
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Adobe Inc. (redirect from Adobe Software)
ə-DOH-bee), formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California. It offers a wide range of programs...
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Magisk is free and open-source software used to root Android devices, developed by John Wu. Magisk supports devices running Android 6.0 or higher. Magisk...
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Software crisis is a term used in the early days of computing science for the difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required...
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Copyright infringement (redirect from Software pirate)
recognize and penalize, as indirect infringers, the service providers and software distributors who are said to facilitate and encourage individual acts of...
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A software wizard or setup assistant or multi-step form is a user interface that leads a user through a sequence of small steps, such as a dialog box to...
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Malware (redirect from Malicious software)
Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network...
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API (redirect from Software API)
between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how...
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Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software. Within a...
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FromSoftware, Inc. is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Founded by Naotoshi Zin on November 1, 1986 as a business software developer, the...
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Software as a service (SaaS /sæs/) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all...
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Software development is the process of designing and implementing a software solution to satisfy a user. The process is more encompassing than programming...
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open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified or...
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