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Clarence Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Two software?

Hi,

I understand that the following sentence is grammatically incorrect as 'software' is an uncountable noun:


We currently do not have enough licenses for these two software.

[in response to "Could you let me know the need for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator?"]
How could it be re-phrased?
  

Top answer

for these two programs/applications for these two pieces of software

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for these two programs/applications

for these two pieces of software
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...these two applications.

or ... these two programs. But appications would get my vote.
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What if we are referring to MS Windows XP and MS Office 2003? Do we also refer to the Windows operating system as an 'application'?

Is it idiomatic to use '...these two types of software'?
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operating systems, packages, environments, you name it
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It doesn't sound very idiomatic to me.

For these two packages, for this operating system, for these applications. Those all sound better to my ear.
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Hi,

An operating system is not normally referred to as an application. Rather, an operating system is a means of controlling the computer to enable applications to be used/run. (I'm a former systems analyst.
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CliveAn operating system is not normally referred to as an application. Rather, an operating system is a means of controlling the computer to enable applications to be used/run.
MS Windows XP
falls in there, I believe.
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Hi,

Yes. Windows is an operating system, as was MS-Dos before it. Macs have an operating system. All computers have an operating system.

Clive
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