What is the difference between a process and a thread?

Question

What is the technical difference between a process and a thread?

I get the feeling a word like \'process\' is overused and there are also hardware and software threa

Answer 1

For those who are more comfortable with learning by visualizing, here is a handy diagram I created to explain Process and Threads.
I used the information from MSDN - About Processes and Threads