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Subject:Re: The Microsoft Style Guide From:Gregory Keith <GKeith -at- DELRINA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:45:00 PST
Someone wrote:
>There is a Microsoft "house style," and a Microsoft style guide (I forget
>the exact name, but I'm pretty sure it's commercially available).
And Mark Levinson replied:
>** Not yet, I think, but I understand it's on its way...
This was the first version: "Microsoft Publications Style Guide. Version
1.0. (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corp, 1991)" as cited in the
Boggan/Farkas/Wellinske book Developing Online Help for Windows. I've heard
rumors that there is a second version, but I've never even seen any copies
of the first version, and it hasn't been available from Microsoft Press, I
guess because it's the internal style guide. There are commercially
available interface guidelines, but that's a different story. Anyone else
know anything about this?
Greg
Gregory Keith
Technical Writer
Symantec/Delrina Canada
Toronto, Ontario
gkeith -at- delrina -dot- com
