Style notes

In general terms, we follow Microsoft guidelines for terminology, as detailed in:
Microsoft® Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition (Microsoft Press, 05/01/2002).
This establishes basic meanings, spellings and wordforms.

Unfortunately, this has not been updated for more than five years although MS terminology changes almost as often as their software.

More recent glossaries can be accessed through: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/glossary/default.mspx

Some exceptions are noted below:

We use ie. (NOT i.e.) for "that is", and eg. (NOT e.g.) "for example". This violates Microsoft documentation standards, but we like to live dangerously.