Re: Microsoft Manual of Style 3rd Edition - Pub'd 2003?
Subject:Re: Microsoft Manual of Style 3rd Edition - Pub'd 2003? From:Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM> To:techwr-l List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 02 May 2008 06:01:06 +1000
Barbara Vega wrote:
>
> On Amazon it states that the most recent version of this guide, 3rd
> edition is 2003? Did I read this right?
>
> If so, can anyone recommend a similar guide that is more recent? I
> looked through Amazon's suggestions and none seemed appropriate - that
> were recent. One seemed good but its most recent date was 1997.
>
> I am updating the Style Guide and I felt sure Microsoft would have come
> up with something more recent. But 5 years is a bit dated.
>
>
> BTW - I flipped through the 2nd edition and could not find "login" as
> one of the terms. It is not in there at all.
>
The second edition of _Read Me First: A Style Guide
for the Computer Industry_ is also from 2003, but
we do have an entry for "login" and "log in to" :->
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