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What is Hardware?
In general, computer hardware is any physical part of the computer or accessory.
EG - a PC monitor is hardware, but any computer programme you are running, is software.
Examples :-
- Printer
- Screen / monitor
- (computer) Mouse
- Disk / CD / DVD
What is Software?
In General, software is a program that can be installed onto the computer via a CD/DVD/Floppy disk.
Examples :-
- Games
- Windows / Linux operating systems
- Photoshop
- Microsoft WORD
- Visus scanner / De-bugger
Some games for example, do not have a licence or an installation key, but if it is the original media (not a copy of the original) then it is ok to be given to another person.