Documentation in new Windows

[Jon Cosby]

I heard someplace the the documentation for the next version of Windows will
be entirely on the Web. What's with this, hard drives are over 100 GB and
some of us have dial-up connections and aren't always connected. This seems
like a bad decision.


Jon Cosby

 

[Mike Kolitz]

It's way too early to tell how the documentation for the next version of
Windows will be deployed. But you're right, I can see how that would be a
pain for some people.

 

[jack]

it's part of the ''big brother'' rumor. where all your
documents are to kept on the web in order to make sure you
are not pirating stuff.
so write in thousands of letters and emails to microsoft
and CNN and tell them where to stick longhorn and it's web
based storage.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I heard someplace the the documentation for the next version of
Windows will be entirely on the Web. What's with this, hard
drives
are over 100 GB and some of us have dial-up connections and
aren't
always connected. This seems like a bad decision.

Statements like that are nothing but rumor and FUD. Nobody knows
anything about documentation for the next version of Windows.
Probably not even Microsoft has made a decision on something like
this.

It's not a "bad decision" simply because no decision has yet been
made.

 

[t.cruise]

Some of my newer software does that now, and I don't like that concept at all. Also, if
you use the Windows Help and Support on the Start menu of your current version of Windows
XP, much information, aside from the basics, will be found if you have the Microsoft
Knowledge Base option selected, which is halfway to having the "documentation on the web"
already.

 

[hermes]

In Jon Cosby <[email protected]> typed:






Statements like that are nothing but rumor and FUD. Nobody knows
anything about documentation for the next version of Windows.
Probably not even Microsoft has made a decision on something like
this.

It's not a "bad decision" simply because no decision has yet been
made.

They already do it with Office help files. Why wouldn't they do it with
the next version of Windows?

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[Ken Blake]

In

They already do it with Office help files. Why wouldn't they
do it
with the next version of Windows?

They might or might not. I didn't say they wouldn't. My point is
simply that the release of the next version is far enough away
that probably no firm decision has yet been made, and any talk
about what might be done is nothing but idle speculation at this
point.