If you've been using a personal computer for long enough, you've probably made a habit of interchangeably referring to the applications on your hard drive as programs or software. Both terms have been ...

The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who ...

Buying or renting — that’s not just the big question when it comes to housing. With software, too, customers often have to ...

It’s often said that every business today is a software company. That’s not just because so many businesses across so many industries depend on system software and applications for their day-to-day ...

The best free PC software programs aren’t about the cost (or lack thereof), they’re about a fresh opportunity—collections of code that put the dumb hardware in your computer to smart use, tools that ...

PCWorld senior editor Brad Chacos wrote an excellent story about the best software for a new PC. But if we’re talking the barest minimum, anyone with a Windows PC really, absolutely must have a ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Traders use ...

As the saying goes, the best things in life are free: love, friends, and great software that works almost as well as a paid product. If you’re like me, you have probably shopped around for certain ...

Software engineering encompasses the design and development of software using principles of computer science, mathematics and engineering. In addition to exploring the technical aspects of computer ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.