Re: This too is technical communication

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Well, with MS poor *customer* documentation is 
more the rule than a possible result.  But having 
seen some of MS' internal documentation of the
codes for some of their products, I feel fairly
safe in conjecturing that whatever is "missing"
in this case exists somewhere in the halls of
Redmond whether the company wants to admit
it or not.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Posada" <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>

> I think now we're getting into the conjecture stage. I'll buy that MS
> was probably trying to obfuscate the content, but only because we
> think we know what MS would do in this position. They might be, OTOH,
> MS doesn't have the lock on employing only highly skilled
> writers...with 300 people on the effort, poor documentation can be
> the result.

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