The only good alternative I could come up was to avoid this issue altogether is this: It originally was designed for audio files, such as MP3, but various software media managers now use it to play video file lists. The issue, I think, boils down to whether softwares is a correct plural form for software.
2025, and the plural form softwares, indicating countification of the noun for individual examples of the form, is at least acknowledged by Wikipedia, where it admittedly is still deemed non-standard.
'Softwares' seems to be less common than 'a software' by far, for native speakers. But, regardless of who says them, 'a software' and 'softwares' are incorrect usage—kind of like how 'a women' is incorrect and 'women' or 'a woman' are correct (I have no idea why people keep writing that, unless it's autocorrect doing it).
Hi everyone I have a doubt if I can use the word softwares when I am writing the next: "I can use these softwares" (plural sentence) thank
The background: the lexeme SOFTWARE is a M (often called “mass”, or sometimes “uncountable”, “non-countable”, or “noun-count”) noun; in most uses — note the qualification — it is SG-only (*softwares), takes the determiners characteristic of M nouns (much software, for instance), and rejects the determiners characteristic of ...
Yes, the same with "hardware". However, I've heard software developers (for whom English is a second language) incorrectly use "a software" and "softwares".
How to use preposition on and in when we talk about applications/softwares?
I have doubt in differencing "launch" and "release". I have seen many softwares. Some of them uses "launch" and rest uses "release". Someone help me to figure it out.