RE: is more verbiage needed?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Karen Mulholland wrote:
 
> I also prefer the minimalist approach, but in this case each 
> line requires one more element: the version or range of 
> versions on which the application is known to work properly. 
> 
> There are bound to be people out there is still running 
> ancient, creaking versions of these operating systems, and 
> some of them may be your customers. Is your product going to 
> work on Windows 95? Probably not. 

Karen, you stopped reading Leonard's description too soon. True, the
"System Requirements" page initially contains only:

Windows
Linux
Macintosh

_But_ read on: 

> Except for the header, each phrase is a hyperlink that expands a table

> containing the application's OS, hardware, and software requirements 
> for each platform.

Those three OS names are merely the gateway to details regarding that
platform (including OS requirements). A single hyperlinked word for each
platform entirely serves the purpose. 

"It's my opinion and it's very true." ;-)

Richard


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