## Derived Forms
- adware
- biosoftware
- bloatware
- firmware
- freeware
- hardware
- intersoftware
- malware
- microsoft
- microsoftware
- neurosoftware
- nonsoftware

## Related Forms
- application
- assembler
- assembly
- bug
- code
- coding
- compilation
- compiler
- computer
- debugging
- executable
- firmware

## Etymology
Computing sense from soft + -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined by John Tukey in 1958. The earlier sense of software to mean tangible products with a soft texture may have fallen out of common usage before the computing sense was created.

## AI Etymology
Software: Computing sense from soft + -ware, by contrast with hardware (“the computer itself”). Coined by John Tukey in 1958. The earlier sense of software to mean tangible products with a soft texture may have fallen out of common usage before the computing sense was created. In current use it includes the sense The programs and instructions that tell a computer what to do.

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- Technology & Computing

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