Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history...

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright...

Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users...

Software engineering is a branch of both computer science and engineering focused on designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications...

The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists...

Software testing is the act of checking whether software satisfies expectations. Software testing can provide objective, independent information about...

Software categories are groups of software. They allow software to be understood in terms of those categories, instead of the particularities of each...

Application software is any computer program that is intended for end-user use – not operating, administering or programming the computer. An application...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the...

with skill in computer programming. The professional titles software developer and software engineer are used for jobs that require a programmer. Sometimes...

Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each...

virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. The service has both free and premium tiers. The software that hosts the containers...

Software requirements for a system are the description of what the system should do, the service or services that it provides and the constraints on its...

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...

Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network...

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...

in October 1997. By 2005 it had been replaced with improved commercial software. Carnivore grew out of an earlier FBI project called "Omnivore", which...

Software safety (sometimes called software system safety) is an engineering discipline that aims to ensure that software, which is used in safety-related...

Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. Copy protection can be removed by applying...

Hindu dubbed Azhagi as a tool that "stand[s] out" among various similar software "emerg[ing] nearly every other day". Since year 2000, Azhagi has provided...

Software verification is a discipline of software engineering, programming languages, and theory of computation whose goal is to assure that software...

A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm. The validity of these patents...

graphics software app intended for expressive drawing and concept sketching also for making animations (Jelly Boo, Teatralka). The software was first...

Standalone software may refer to: Computer programs that can work offline, i.e. does not necessarily require network connection to function Software that is...

Software development is the process of designing and implementing a software solution to satisfy a user. The process is more encompassing than programming...

A software bug is a design defect (bug) in computer software. A computer program with many or serious bugs may be described as buggy. The effects of a...