Today the world communicates majority of the time in English. And the most common way of spreading messages or news to different parts of the globe is through the Media Industry. Media consists of newspapers and radio broadcasting and television broadcasting. All these require dictionaries and this is mostly done with the help of a dictionary software. This would be more convenient for the company or the newspaper agency, whichever it may be. This is because in the newspaper agency people are allotted different columns to different groups of people and they would usually be stacked up in different parts of the office used for their purpose.
One reason why people would prefer using a english dictionary software is because buying separate dictionaries for each member would be economically absurd and again would occupy more space, and this would not help the writers since they would require their own space. On top of that, the writers can access whatever they want from the software, much faster than from normal dictionaries. Even in the News broadcasting offices, one can realize that anchors have shifted from a bunch of papers to a laptop for their use while on the air. This is again because of the use of dictionary softwares used.