Java is a programming language that enables software to run on many operating systems.

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Each new turn of Moore's Law enables software to do miraculous things.

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So they've tried to create some programs, one called the Free File Alliance, which enables software companies to become part of an alliance that the IRS, the federal government, has created to make their software easier.

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