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| Author: Microsoft Corporation
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $19.79
You Save: $10.20 (34%)
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 31617
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.1
MPN: 9780735617469
ISBN: 0735617465
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.066005
UPC: 790145174659
EAN: 9780735617469
Publication Date: June 30, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 This book's got style! February 3, 2000
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
An excellent reference book. No problem getting consensus when using this to set style standards within a software documentation department. I'd love to see a new edition that addresses Web-based applications. What say you, MS Press?
What Is Adobe Waiting For? June 28, 2000
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The immediately useful, invaluable articles on: procedures, messages, parallelism, headings, dialog boxes and disk, may well survive Microsoft's break-up. Articles like 'jargon' and 'foreign words' make nice welcome mats to more detailed exposés in _WiredStyle_ and WFB's _The Right Word_. The plugs to McConnell's excellent _Code Complete_ and to the _Chicago Manual of Style_ are welcome and appreciated. Bilingual technical writers can only hope that French and German editions of the MMS be in the works, for vocabulary and localization. Would Adobe or Corel please come up with similar "Manual(s)... for Technical Illustrations". And will such a fine & popular guide to some of Word's offspring prod Microsoft to finally fix Word's bugs? Our wish list awaits...
A Technical Writer Must-Have October 15, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Every technical writer in the software industry needs this book. It deals with technical publication writing standards that don't only apply to Microsoft. As far as I know it's the only book of its kind--because of this, it will likely become THE standard for technical writing styles. The entries are up-to-date. They contain common usage, spelling, valuable information, examples, and so forth. I use it all the time.
Think before you buy May 17, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
From the previous reviews, it appears that a few people have bought this book without thinking about what the contents are. Only buy this book if you are documenting Microsoft style software. What you have here is a glossary of terms, not a manual about grammar usage. While you may not be happy using terms because Microsoft says so, these terms have become accepted by software users. If you do write software documentation this book is invaluable.
 Typical Microsoft May 7, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book ok, but not great. Some of their standards are a little antiquated.
If you are a software tech writer, check out the Sun Technical Publications, Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Second Edition.
If you work in the Mac world, then get the "Apple Publications, Style Guide." It is available free on the web.
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