Microsoft Documentation Declared Unfit For US Consumption

anomalous cohort writes "Washington DC judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly announced during the ongoing Microsoft antitrust hearings that their documentation is unfit for US consumption. This is relevant in an antitrust hearing as poor documentation on how to inter-operate with Microsoft's products is seen as an unfair barrier to entry for companies who compete with Microsoft. Others see this as yet another example of their crumbling hegemony or indolence as their empire burns."

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[fiannaFailMan]

Those linked blogs say nothing about "yet another example of [Microsoft's] crumbling hegemony or indolence as their empire burns."

Re:This is good.

[alexborges]

Get a grip, hippo, they dont mean your kb.ms thingie. They mean the INTEROPERABILITY docs, which you will NEVER see in a website such as your msdn.

Re:Seriously?

[AlgorithMan]

I have spent so many hours in the MSDN, despaired of undocumented function-parameters, undocumented functions, missing cross-references, horrible code examples, etc. etc. etc. - In the end I trashed ALL projects, that I needed WinAPI documentation for...