The new Visual Studio 11 help "Help Viewer 2.0" runtime will be used for Windows 8 F1 help. This is good news for those of us who have been waiting for an open Unicode help system. Currently no release dates available on either product. For more information read these blogs...

Jeff Braaten [MSFT] has all the detail for you here…

• http://thirdblogfromthesun.com/2011/09/announcing-microsoft-help-viewer-2-0-developer-preview/

Paul O’Rear [MSFT] also posted these notes…

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/thehelpguy/archive/2011/09/15/help-viewer-2-0-visual-studio-11-windows-8-developer-preview.aspx