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If you use Office 2010, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to download the complete ebook “ First Look Microsoft Office 2010 ,” by Katherine Murray. This 202-page book provides way to better express yourself, create compelling documents, work with data, organize, store, and share...

Our spring cleaning turned up quite a few chapters and full e-books to share with you! Get acquainted with the latest Microsoft software with e-books covering Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Office 2010, and much more! Sign up for Spring Cleaning...

Did you know you can download Excel templates to create schedules, calendars, budgets, to-do lists, and much more? Check out these free Excel templates . If you’re looking to improve your Excel skills, consider downloading a free chapter from the ebook “ Microsoft Excel 2010 Data Analysis...

According to a study by Windows ITPro , about 44% of readers view Microsoft SharePoint Server as a “very important application” for their organization’s operation. 33% say it’s a “mission-critical” application. No doubt, SharePoint enables information sharing, document...

Have you joined the special offers and updates mailing list from Microsoft Learning? Here's a good reason to sign up soon: In addition to announcements about exclusive deals and the latest training and certification resources, if you sign up by February 28, 2011 we'll give you free access to...

One word, rhymes with sneeze Because we develop learning products on a wide variety of Microsoft technologies, we need to keep in touch with experts on each product to help us develop the content. We call these folks Subject Matter Experts, or SMEs (rhymes with “sneeze”) for short. We love...

We’re happy to announce that Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant, Second Edition , by William Stanek, has shipped to the printer. The book’s ISBN is 9780735627383, the book includes 17 chapters and 736 pages, and it will be available after April 21. The book’s first edition...

We’re happy to announce that Windows 7: The Best of the Official Magazine is now available. Today we offer an excerpt from the book. First, here’s a quick a description of it: Explore the practical, fun, and creative things you can do right now with Windows 7—with expert guidance from the editors of...

(cross-posted from our Microsoft Press blog) Do you recognize this man? That’s Charles Petzold ! Looking stylish with the cover of his free ebook on his tee shirt. It’s a draft preview of his upcoming book (to be published in the fall): Programming Windows Phone 7 Series . This preview ebook contains...

Kim Spilker here. The Society for Technical Communications is an international organization of technical communicators whose purpose is to foster quality in print and online technical publications. Other competitors at the local level (Puget Sound region) included Microsoft UA teams and organizations...

Hi all, Patty Gardner here, Content Development Group Manager for Microsoft Press. I’m very proud to present this year’s STC (Society for Technical Communication) Award winners. The STC is an international organization of technical communicators whose purpose is to foster quality in print...

Hello everyone. Kimberly Kim here, managing editor at Microsoft Press. As we plan the Training Kits that will cover the next round of .NET Framework exams, I d like to hear from readers of the Training Kits that covered the last round. If you’ve read any of the books in the list below, let me know your...

Gang, CLR via C#, Third Edition (ISBN: 9780735627048), by Jeffrey Richter, is proceeding very very well. We’re 99% sure it will be available in the middle of February 2010! Because the book is coming soon, we’d like to post information originally shared by Jeffrey about how the third edition differs...

By the Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 Administrator’s Companion Authors In March 2008 we got together to brainstorm an idea about this book and from day one we realized that we would have some interesting challenges to overcome, such as chapter rewrites as the product evolved. However we knew that once...

Good morning. If you read our Microsoft Office Step by Step books, such as Microsoft Office Word 2007 Step by Step , Microsoft Office Project 2007 Step by Step , and many others, please let us know if you use the books’ “Quick Reference” sections. We’re working on our Office 2010...

Debating whether or when to upgrade to Windows 7? Already installed Win 7 and wondering which book(s) have the information you need to learn your way around? Let us help you make up your mind: Discover the portfolio of Microsoft Press books on Windows 7 (and pick up a few pointers) with this new, free...

Just in time for the official launch of Windows 7 comes our newest Microsoft Press Training Kit – MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows® 7 by Ian McLean and Orin Thomas (ISBN: 9780735627086; 912 pages). The Training Kit provides in-depth preparation plus practice for the MCTS...

Free happy for IT Pros today: Download this free Windows 7 Deployment ebook , containing the deployment section of the Windows 7 Resource Kit plus some of the best Win7 deployment articles from TechNet! (Developers, don’t fret: we’ve got free stuff coming for you guys too today…)

A reminder that the not-quite-so-early-bird $300 discount for PDC09 (November 17-19 in Los Angeles) ends in a couple of days. Register here . Also, if you’re enrolled in the Metro Early Adoption or BizSpark program, you’re eligible for a $500 discount. Interested parties should contact the PDC09 Registration...

We’re pleased to announce that Windows 7 Resource Kit by Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows 7 Team at Microsoft, is now available for purchase in bookstores (Microsoft Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780735627000; 1760 pages)! To give you a taste of what you’ll...