Capitalize "Version"?

Chris Borokowski athloi at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 14 08:12:34 MDT 2007


Unless "Version" is part of the product title as determined by the
legal and marketing departments, I'd make it lowercase, or better yet,
leave it off, in the style of software naming.

"I'm using ScoobyPie 4.25 to format those documents."


--- Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net> wrote:

> "XYZ Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of its
> ScoobyPie
> Version 4.25."
>  
> This is the opening sentence of a release note I'm working on. I'd
> lower-case "version," and the Microsoft Manual of Style seems to
> agree.
> Would you? Is there any compelling reason to leave it uc?


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