At the Fourteenth Annual WritersUA Conference to be held in Palm Springs, California, April 9-12, 2006 the MVPs have learned that the WinHelp viewer will not be downloadable either. The WinHelp engine will not be included in Microsoft Windows Vista.
You should not count on any of your WinHelp files being viewable in Windows Vista. If everyone downloads WinHelp then Microsoft just can’t guarantee Vista’s security. Get used to the idea of no WinHelp.
We have learned that Josef Becker died suddenly on 29 March 2006. Josef was well known in the Help authoring world for his collection of Help utilities, now found - in memoriam - online at www.helpmaster.info.
Josef Becker wrote his first technical documentation in 1982. Ten years later, he developed his first WinHelp system using pure Word. He was a Microsoft Help MVP from 1999 to 2005.
In later years, Josef Becker was the Managing Director of Becker & Poettgen Software GmbH, a firm that specializes in developing computer-based training, Web-based training, and hypertext-based training.
I extend my deepest sympathies to his family.