The software can operate with the closed-looped controls, or as a 'closed system,' as required by many companies when using audit trail functionality.

The software operates on a website design template system, which allows users to choose from free, pre-designed templates.

Big corporate customers want plenty of help in making all the computer hardware, software and networks operate smoothly.

It controls the way all other software operates, and it determines the way the various components of a system work together.

The software can operate on a single computer, which was a big leap forward that really helps researchers.

But the way the software operated was it just literally wrote into memory.

Most software of this nature will only operate with the hardware manufacturer they were designed for and will accept very few outside vendors.

Microsoft says its software must operate with other kinds of online authentication software if Internet commerce is to develop rapidly.

Some software, though, may operate in a more limited mode.

"The Frozen Keyboard" is a rich, and richly funny, book with much material on how software should operate, and why it probably never will.