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From: bobt@microsoft.UUCP (Bob TANIGUCHI)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Windows 3.0 - New Books
Message-ID: <55767@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 90 16:14:24 GMT
References: <1990Jun29.183148.27558@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1990Jul5.142709.25542@mtcchi.uucp>
Reply-To: bobt@microsoft.UUCP (Bob TANIGUCHI)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1990Jul5.142709.25542@mtcchi.uucp> thj@mtcchi.uucp (XT0221000-Tom Hjellming(ZG90210)0000) writes:
>altman@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) writes:
>
>>Well, I walked into my local B Daltons today and guess what I found?
>>A whole slew of new Windows Programming Books from Microsoft.
>
>
>>MS Windows Guide to Programming   1-55615-308-2  $29.95
>>MS Windows Programming Tools      1-55615-310-4  $24.95
>>MS Windows Programmer's Reference 1-55615-309-0  $39.95
>
>Microsoft may be splitting the documentation and software for Win 3.0 development
>just like they do it for OS/2 PM.

Yes, this is the case.  We are making our documentation for Win 3.0 available
in bookstores for those using third party tools to build Windows apps, and for
those evaluating windows, but not actively developing.

This is very much inspired by what we did with OS/2, and the OS/2 softset.

Bob Taniguchi
Advanced Operating Systems Group
Microsoft