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Catherine Rivi asked for examples of documentation for software running on
multiple platforms. Microsoft has done a pretty fair job with their docs for
the latest versions of Word/Excel/Powerpoint. Fortunately, the interfaces are
virtually identical across the two versions of these products, so the
documentation challenge is relatively slight. They've chosen to document the
Windows versions (which were released first) and then note any major
variances on the Mac platfom.
