Revisit Microsoft Style Guide in 2022

In 2009 I blogged about Microsoft Manual of Style (now is called Microsoft Style Guide) and list some interesting terms.  At that time I were referring to the 3rd edition which was published in 2004.  Today at 2022, let's revisit the list to see what terms are added, what are removed to have a quick review on how computing technology changes in past 18 years.

New:

• New technology (AI, Bluetooth, Blu-ray Disc, big data)
• Social Media (chatbot, emoji, instant message, invite, profile)
• Cloud related
• Mobile related (touch-, wearable, mixed reality, notification, rotate, swipe, tap)
• Gaming (achievement, badge, e-sports)
• Security (honeypot, malicious-, malware, multifactor authentication,  spyware, trojan)

Removed:

• Legacy technology (CD (burn, rip), COM port, DOS, modem, diskette, push-to-talk, PCMCIA, VCR, VGA)
• Low level computing (assembly language, DWORD, interrupt, linefeed, machine language)
• Obseleted Microsoft products /technologies (COM, DOS, Front Page, NT, OLE, Winsock)
• Early internet terms (webzine, net-, newsgroup, sitemap, Usenet, Weblication)
• Pre-cloud (scale-up, virtual)
• Intel (IA32, Itanium, Intel-based, x86)

Details:

New	Removed
achievement (gaming) active player  AI antimalware antispyware app audiobook	access privileges action bar alt text (html) assembly language audit trail
badge (gaming) big data bio Bluetooth Blu-ray Disc	backward bitmask bitplane bitwise black hole (networking) bulleted burn (CD)
cell phone, cellular phone cellular center on chatbot check in cloud cloud platform cloud services community cloud company vs. organization compute conversation as a platform (CaaP) conversational user interface (CUI) -core cyber	caller ID card carrage return/line feed (CR/LF) CBT (computer-based training, now is called e-learning) CD, CD case, CD key, CD Plus certificate channel client area (now is desktop or workspace) code signing COM (Component Object Model) communication port (COM port) comprise critical process monitor critical section object cursor
dark mode deceptive software DevOps dynamic service capacity	data modem diskette Distributed File System DOS double word (DWORD) downlevel
e-discovery elastic service capacity e-learning emoticons, emoji End-User License Agreement (EULA) e-sports	Editor e-zine, webzine
family fitness band flick flyout freeze, frozen	facsimile firewall Fortran Front Page
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)	Gantt chart gateway
hang hard-of-hearing HDMI hierarchical menu high-level-language compiler honeypot hybrid cloud	hardware high-level highlight hotfix
infrastructure as a service (IaaS) instant message, IM Internet of Things (IoT) invite IT pro, IT professional	IA-32-based I-beam independent content provider (ICP) insertion point Intel-based Interrupt inverse video Itanium-based (Intel CPU architecture)
	jwewl case
	kludge
leading license terms	line feed localhost look up low-level
machine learning malicious code, malicious user malware, malicious software mission critical mixed reality multifactor authentication	MAC (media access control) machine language Macro Assembler (MASM) memory models movement keys MS-DOS My Computer
natural user interface, NUI .NET newsreader noncontinguous selection notification	NET (net-) new line newsgroup nonadjacent selection non-Windows application NT
off-premises, on-premises onboarding online services open source, open-source opt in, opt out org, organization	Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) online Help on/off switch overtype
page pan passwordless pin, unpin pinch platform as a service (PaaS) playlist please private cloud profile public cloud	panorama patch PC Card vs PCMCIA pixel Preface prohibition sign pull quote push-to-talk
	quarter inch quick key
relationship chatbot reverse video rotate	radix, radixes release notes Restore button rip
server service-level agreement (SLA) service-oriented architecture (SOA) ship single-sign-on (SSO) smb social chatbot software as a service (SaaS) software-plus-services sorry spyware stretch swipe sync	scale up Screen Tip search engine site map software update speed key spider stand-alone Super VGA, SVGA
tab, double-tab, tab and hold target drive, target file terminate text, text message tile, Live Tile toast to-do touchpad touchscreen touch-sensitive trackball trojan turnkey	time bomb title bar titled vs. entitled toolbar toolbox tooltip topic tutorial two-dimensional, 2-D
Ultrabook unwanted software UPnP URL USB use terms	Universal Naming Conversion (UNC) unprintable Usenet utilize
video call, videoconference video card video driver video game virtual agent voice user interface voice-activated device	VCR (videocassette recorder) VGA virtual root virtual server virtualize
wearable, wearable device web services wellbeing white hat hacker whitelist wireless work style workstream worldwide vs. international	Weblication Windows Installer Winsock worksheet
	x86 Xbase zero character