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Software is what you actually see when you turn the computer on. It is the instructions that tell the computer what to do. There are lots of different layers of software in a computer, the layer that makes the computer itself work (the operating system), the layer that interacts with you (the user interface) and the layer that performs specific tasks for you such as spreadsheets or word processing (the application).

If you think of the computer as being like a TV/Video combination, the TV/Video only comes to life when you insert a video cassette, before that it is just a dead weight.

So too with software, until software is put onto the hardware we don't have anything useable!

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