From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:49:55 -0400, Mike N.  wrote:

>   The tendency for office going online is very irritating.  The help
>originally insisted on going online, but I managed to disable that.  Online
>help is slower than mollasses, and there's no justification for it if the
>help exists locally.   What, do they think help changes so fast that you
>need to read it online?

   In the pell mell headlong rush to  move all help online, Vista cannot
even display the old format .HLP files.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6EBCFAD9-D3F5-4365-807
0-334CD175D4BB&displaylang=en

  Doubtless, it was really ommitted to conserve disk space for all the
crapware that OEMs load.

>   Visual Studio also has the annoying habit of trying to portray the
>online help as faster than local help.

  The only valid reason for online help is the community-contributed code
samples, like on PHP.net.   I haven't turned the online help back on to see
whether community code samples are included now.

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