| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | soft booking | 软性预订 (A project booking that tentatively assigns a resource to a project or activity without committing it to the schedule) |
| comp., MS | soft break | 软中断 (A break which is simulated by the debugger. It is used if a native program cannot be stopped for some reason (for example, the program is executing in kernel mode). The debugger freezes all threads and simulates a break) |
| comp., MS | soft delete | 软删除 (The process of moving an item to the Deleted Items folder) |
| comp., MS | soft edges | 柔化边缘 (A picture, shape, or video effect that uses gradation as opposed to a hard outline. The edges of the object disappear or fade into the background) |
| comp., MS | soft font | 软字体 (A set of characters that are copied from a computers disk to a printers memory when requested for printing a document. Downloadable fonts are most commonly used with laser printers, although dot matrix printers can accept some of them) |
| comp., MS | soft hyphen | 软连字符 (" A hyphen that is used to control where a word or phrase breaks if it falls at the end of a line. For example, you can specify that the word "nonprinting" breaks as "non-printing" rather than "nonprint-ing.") |
| comp., MS | soft page | 软页 (A rendered page that can be slightly larger than the size specified using the InteractiveHeight and InteractiveWidth properties of a report (HTML and WinForm control)) |
| comp., MS | soft page-break renderer | 软分页呈现器 (A rendering extension that maintains the report layout and formatting so that the resulting file is optimized for screen-based viewing and delivery, such as on a Web page or in the ReportViewer controls) |
| comp., MS | soft quota | 软配额 (A quota that does not enforce the quota limit, but generates all configured notifications) |
| comp., MS | soft recovery | 软恢复 (" "Soft" recovery is what happens when the system is shut down improperly, but you still have the main data files available on the hard drive. The server goes through the logs, and "rolls back" any incomplete transactions, thus restoring the database to a state of integrity.") |
| comp., MS | soft restart | 软重启 (The restarting of a running computer without first turning off the power) |
| comp., MS | soft SA | 软件 SA (A security association (SA) in which the Negotiate security filter action is enabled, but there is no authentication or encryption being performed because the computer with which communication occurs is not running IPSec) |
| comp., MS | soft shadowing | 柔和阴影效果 (A shadowing effect that uses gradation as opposed to a hard outline) |
| comp., MS | soft start | 软启动 (In a preset recording interval, a starting point which includes extra buffer time allocated to a planned scheduled recording in case the program starts a little early) |
| comp., MS | soft stop | 软停止 (In a preset recording interval, an end point which includes extra buffer time allocated to a planned scheduled recording in case the program ends a little late) |