Microsoft has put back the launch of its next operating system, Microsoft Vista. Corporate customers are promised it in November 2006, with the retail version due in January 2007. This is unlikely to have earth shattering consequences for technical writers, but it is likely to affect some of the Help authoring tool vendors. For Adobe,… Read more »

Electronics Weekly has published a map of technology start-ups in Britain. They define a start-up as one that is less than 5 years old and hasn’t been bought, floated or been wound up. There are 128 firms featured on the map, up from 110 in 2003 and 32 in 1999. The clusters are Cambridge, Bristol,… Read more »

Last week we said: “At the moment, the biggest problem is how to tag particular areas of a diagram (to be called “segmented tagging” or “hotspot tagging” perhaps?), but that’s unlikely to be a showstopper.” And this week, a Web site went into service that solves this problem!Does anyone else know what that Web site… Read more »

“I got a lot out of the day. I think the standard course is ideally suited to people who are starting out or at the early phases of implementing new online help projects. While the work that our department does is a little beyond this stage, I still found the course, which was tailored to… Read more »

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