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kanna
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kanna asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 9 years ago

how to explain software to a lay person?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Software is the thing that makes your computer work and all the programs or applications on it, in other words, anything that's not physically there eg. windows (or Mac), Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office etc .

    Hardware is any physical item or media that is attached or can be used with a computer eg. Monitor, Keyboard, Processor etc.

  • 9 years ago

    Software is the stuff you download and run on the computer. Hardware is the stuff the computer is made of.

  • 9 years ago

    software is information designed to tell the hardware of the computer what to do in order to accomplish a certain task.

  • OMG to answer this seriously would not be fun.....

    touch his/her's skin and say software......

    then rip out his/her heart & right b4 he/she passes away

    say hardware!

    HA!

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  • 9 years ago

    It is a set of instructions.

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