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Subject:Re: NEWS: Update from Microsoft on Help plans From:John Cornellier <t_w -at- cornellier -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:08:02 +0100
Does the "customer feedback" mentioned imply that people prefered a stand-alone help browser, and not an integrated one (as implemented in VS .NET)?
>The Microsoft® Help team has decided not to release Microsoft Help 2 as a
>general Help platform. This is primarily in response to customer feedback
>that the most important thing is providing a standard Help experience on
>everybody's machine. With that in mind, we are focusing our work efforts
>on providing a great Help experience in the next client release of Windows
>(codename "Longhorn") rather than on releasing an interim solution that is
>not integrated with the operating system.
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