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Re: Cross-platform gets redefined ..

* Doug Mentohl peremptorily fired off this memo:

> On 26 Feb, 16:05, Erik Funkenbusch <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Microsoft itself makes Silverlight available on both the PC and Mac.  That makes it cross platform ..
>
> It's 'cross platform' except on Linux .. :)

Indeed.  "Cross-platform" is MicrosoftSpeak for "runs on many variants
of Microsoft Windows."

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