See Also
Style Guides
3rd Edition
You can see details on Microsoft's Manual of Style on the Microsoft Web Site. The guide provides complete styles and guidelines for publishing a variety of technical publications. See this Web page on the Microsoft Manual of Style .
1998 Edition
There is a Web site from where you can download the edition published in 1998, free of charge.
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Other style guides
The University of Chicago Press has announced the publication of the fifteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, the essential reference on American English. "Those who work with words know how dramatically publishing has changed in the past decade, with technology now informing and influencing every stage of the writing and publishing process."
Apple's style guide is available online, as is the BBC News style guide. The BBC guide is written mainly for broadcasters, but would be of use for journalistic copy.
Guide - Grammar, Punctuation and Capitalization
NASA's Web site contains a good general guide to grammar, punctuation and capitalization that will be useful to anyone who believes good writing isn't rocket science. You can download this guide as an Acrobat file.