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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to software: Software – collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it. Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words, software is a set of ''programs, procedures, algorithms'' and its ''documentation'' concerned with the operation of a data processing system. The term was coined to contrast to the old term hardware (meaning physical devices). In contrast to hardware, software "cannot be touched".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Princeton University, Princeton, NJ )〕 Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only. Sometimes the term includes data that has not traditionally been associated with computers, such as film, tapes, and records.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) )〕 == What ''type'' of thing is software? == Software can be described as all of the following: * Technology – * * Computer technology – * * Tools – 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Outline of software」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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