Microsoft Docs

The content on Microsoft Docs was organised into groups based on product or technology and steps of working with it: evaluating, getting started, planning, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting, and the navigation panel and product/service pages showed material breakdowns. The service allowed users to download specific docs sections as PDF files for offline use and included an estimated reading time for each article.

Each article was represented as a Markdown file in various GitHub repositories, and most of the documentation content was open-sourced and accepted pull requests. Microsoft released a set of Visual Studio Code extensions, Docs Authoring Pack, to assist in editing Microsoft Docs content. It included the support of Docs-specific markdown features.{{Cite web |last=Govoni |first=Sergio |date=September 14, 2018 |title=Microsoft Docs and Localization Community Platform |url=http://sqlblog.com/blogs/sergio_govoni/archive/2018/09/14/microsoft-docs-and-localization-community-platform.aspx |website=SQLblog.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917120728/http://sqlblog.com/blogs/sergio_govoni/archive/2018/09/14/microsoft-docs-and-localization-community-platform.aspx |archive-date=2018-09-17 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |last=Sandquist |first=Jeff |date=9 January 2022 |title=Introducing docs.microsoft.com |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/introducing-docs-microsoft-com |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=Microsoft Docs |publisher=}}

Microsoft Docs preview was introduced in June 2016, initially containing .NET documentation. The process of migrating the bulk of MSDN and TechNet libraries' content has taken approximately two years. Key events:

• November 2016: the documentation for Azure, Visual Studio 2017 RC, C++, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core and SQL on Linux was added.{{cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/docs-november-update|title=Microsoft Docs November Update|publisher=Microsoft}}
• September 2017: the documentation for Office SharePoint, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and BizTalk Server ITPro was migrated from MSDN/TechNet.{{cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/september-release-notes|title=Microsoft Docs September 2017 release notes|publisher=Microsoft}}
• February 2018: Microsoft added a new feedback system for Docs based on GitHub issues.{{cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/a-new-feedback-system-is-coming-to-docs|title=A New Feedback System Is Coming to docs.microsoft.com|publisher=Microsoft}}
• September 2018: The launch of Microsoft Learn was announced on Microsoft Docs.{{cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/introducing-ms-learn|title=Introducing Microsoft.com/Learn|publisher=Microsoft}}
• November 2018: OneDrive technical documentation moved from TechNet to Microsoft Docs.[https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-moving-its-onedrive-technical-documentation-to-microsoft-docs/ João Carrasqueira. Microsoft is moving its OneDrive technical documentation to Microsoft Docs] Neowin News
• September 2022: The technical documentation from Microsoft Docs was made an item on the Microsoft Learn site.{{cite web|url=https://aka.ms/microsoftlearnannounceblog|title=Build skills that open doors—with Microsoft Learn|first=Erin|last=Rifkin|website=Microsoft Learn blog}}

• Microsoft Learn
• Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN)
• Microsoft TechNet

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• [https://learn.microsoft.com/docs/ New home of Microsoft Docs on Microsoft Learn]
• [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=docsmsft.docs-authoring-pack Docs Authoring Pack]

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