Challenge 2: Which Tools Are Actually Usable on Windows -- Solution Walkthrough All six tools can be included in some form, but they split into two genuinely different answers depending on category. Usable natively, end to end, on Windows: - Cap -- explicitly cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux), so this is the one capture-time recorder in the course actually installable and usable on Windows itself. - DemoPolish -- web-based; it never runs a native app on your own machine at all, it only needs an existing recording to upload, which can come from any OS. - Trupeer -- same reasoning as DemoPolish: web-based, OS-agnostic on input, works regardless of what recorded the raw footage. - Descript -- explicitly supports Windows alongside Mac, so this is fully usable natively too. Not usable natively on Windows: - Screen Studio -- Mac only, per the OS-coverage map; there is no Windows version and, per the chapter's own research, no planned one either. - Screenify Studio -- also Mac only, same limitation as Screen Studio. Reasoning for the two web-based tools deserves its own note: DemoPolish and Trupeer aren't "usable on Windows" in the sense of running Windows software -- they're OS-agnostic by construction, since the actual processing happens on their own servers, not on your machine. A Windows user can record with Cap (or any other Windows-compatible recorder) and then feed that file into either pipeline without ever touching a Mac. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This exercise checks that the reader correctly applies the chapter's own OS-coverage table to a Windows-specific scenario, and recognizes the important nuance that "web-based" tools aren't restricted by the recording OS at all -- only the capture-time recorders carry a real OS constraint, and only two of the three of those are Mac-only.