RE: Conference

[Paul Hanson <PHanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com>]

My impression from Char's post last week is that WinHelp *is* dead, that it
will *not* be available *at all* with Vista, even as a download. See below.
What are other TWers doing that have the majority (or at least "some") of
their projects in WinHelp?

>From last week:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Char James-Tanny
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:14 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Official WinHelp announcement
<snip>
The WinHelp engine will not be included in Microsoft Vista. In addition, the
engine will not be available for download or redistribution.
<snip>
(NOTE: I announced this yesterday on HATT. To clarify one possible question:
this supersedes all previous announcements.)

Microsoft Help MVPs Char James-Tanny, Paul Neshamkin, Dana Worley, Scott
Boggan, and Rob Cavicchio 
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Paul Hanson
Technical Writer
Adobe Community Expert (ACE) - RoboHelp
http://www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/team_members/200.ht
ml
Quintrex Data Systems 
http://www.quintrex.com
email: phanson at quintrex.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Goldstein
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:49 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Conference

<snip>
it would be unwise to move an existing project away from WinHelp right now,
just because of Vista.
<snip>
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