Software ist die Gesamtheit von Programmen, Daten, Anweisungen, Bibliotheken und verwandten digitalen Materialien, die den Betrieb eines Computersystems steuern. Sie unterscheidet sich von Hardware, die die physischen Komponenten bezeichnet, welche diese Anweisungen ausführen oder speichern.
A collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work. This is in contrast to physical hardware, from which the system is built and actually performs the work. In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs and data. Computer software includes computer programs, libraries and related non-executable data, such as online documentation or digital media.