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KittyLiz
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April 17, 2006
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Winhelp and Vista

  • April 17, 2006
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I read that the Vista Windows operating system will not support WinHelp. I also read that you will not even be able to manually download WinHelp for Vista. Can anybody point me to the official word on this? I have an old client with large help projects still running in WinHelp. I may need to work up an estimate for converting them.

Kitty
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Anonymous
April 17, 2006
Kitty,

Microsoft announced at the WritersUA 2006 Conference last week that the WinHelp engine will not even be available for download for their Vista operating system. (They are planning to release the Vista OS the first quarter of 2007.) That was Microsoft's official announcement.

My boss was at the conference and called me as soon as she heard it. (We have about 100 WinHelp projects to convert.)

Many people who were at the conference have posted the news in various lists and forums. A highly credible posting from people who were at the conference is posted here:

http://wiki.helpware.net/tiki-view_blog.php?blogId=2

Regards,

Cindy
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Versifier146
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April 27, 2006
Goodbye, WinHelp!

~Jessica
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Anonymous
May 1, 2006
"Not so fast with the goodbyes," WinHelp pleads!

Remember that both government entities and large businesses take a long time to switch from one version of Windows to another. There are cost issues and security issues at stake. My current contract is with a company that runs Windows 2000 and Office 2003 - works like a charm.

It is likely that if your company is not on XP now, their next upgrade will be to Vista - but that could be two years away. I would definitely prepare them for a help conversion down the road - it should be part of their Windows conversion planning. But until Vista is on the users' workstations, WinHelp will keep doing its job.

(I miss working with WinHelp. HTML just isn't the same...)

Elisa
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