RE: Microsoft wants journalists, not tech writers?

Subject: RE: Microsoft wants journalists, not tech writers?
From: "Anita Legsdin" <anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:45:07 -0800


Good point. Maybe the journalists will rebel at creating phrases such as "Click the 'Click' click-box."

Anita
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--Julia Child

-----Original Message-----
From: MaggiRos [mailto:maggiros -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:24 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Microsoft wants journalists, not tech writers?



If I read the original quote correctly, Microsoft wants to
hire journalists to write their on-line help, not their
technical documentation.

Thing is, I never thought it was the writers who made MS
help so useless, but the corporate help style imposed on
them. Writers from a different discipline can't change
anything until MS changes the way they think about how they
do help.



Maggie



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