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Cross-Platform

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:39 am

Refers to the capability of software or hardware to run identically on different platforms. Many applications for Windows and the Macintosh, for example, now produce binary-compatible files, which means that users can switch from one platform to the other without converting their data to a new format.

Cross-platform computing is becoming increasingly important as local-area networks become better at linking machines of different types.