November, 2011

Don't miss the chance to attend this intensive two-day course that will provide you first-hand experience directly from the most authoritative experts on PowerPivot! To learn more and to register, visit http://www.powerpivotworkshop.com/ About the Book...( read more ) ...read more

Greetings. Zain Naboulsi, coauthor of Coding Faster: Getting More Productive with Microsoft Visual Studio (which covers Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010), is presenting “The Ultimate Guide to Visual Studio 2010 - Coding, Debugging, Modeling, Testing...( read more ) ...read more

In celebration of Cyber Monday, we're featuring 60 ebooks: 20 new releases, our current 20 top sellers, and 20 of our most popular picks of recent memory. Use discount code CYBERMONDAY . This deal expires 2011-11-29 and may not be combined with other...( read more ) ...read more

In the spirit of Cyber Monday, today we’d like to share an interview with Richard Banks, author of the first book in Microsoft Press’s new Microsoft Research series, The future of looking back   (ISBN: 978-0-7356-5806-6) . The interview, by Anna...( read more ) ...read more

Updated for ASP.NET MVC 3, Dino Esposito’s Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition , is now available. You can see the book’s “Contents at a Glance” and read its Introduction in this earlier post . In this post we share an excerpt from one of...( read more ) ...read more

Still time to register! Course: Exam 70-659: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization Jump Start Target Audience: IT Pros with some Microsoft Virtualization experience who want to be sure they're ready to pass exam 70-659 Instructors: Microsoft Technical...( read more ) ...read more

Greetings. Since May 2011, Eric Ligman (the Microsoft Director of Partner Experience in the Worldwide Partner Group) has been fine-tuning his “Microsoft Partner Info” Windows Phone app. Here’s a description of it: Microsoft Partner Information, right...( read more ) ...read more

Check this out: If you are a developer or existing team/startup focused on building a business that takes advantage of the Kinect and Natural User Interface technologies, then the Kinect Accelerator is where you need to be. Through this program, Microsoft...( read more ) ...read more

Here’s the announcement (from November 17): A second, more retail-friendly version of Microsoft Surface is now available for pre-order in 23 countries. Earlier this week, Popular Science named the Samsung SUR40 a 2011 “Best of What’s New” award recipient...( read more ) ...read more

Some of you might find a recent article in Network World interesting: “Will IT certs get you jobs and raises? Survey says yes” The lead: “In this survey of 700 IT professionals, most say certifications have led to raises and better jobs, busting the myth...( read more ) ...read more

Greetings. As you probably know, Microsoft Press sells ebook versions of our titles via O’Reilly, our distributor. A title’s ebook bundle contains up to five different formats: APK, DAISY, ePub, Mobi, and PDF. The following table does a great job describing...( read more ) ...read more

Posted by the Microsoft Learning Jump Start Team Microsoft Learning hosted a brand new class in the popular “Jump Start” series back on October 6, 2011. Because we received such rave reviews and demand for more options to take the class, we've added a...( read more ) ...read more

  Thursday, Nov 17, 2011 Office 365 and Exchange Online Learn how the new Exchange Online service of Office 365 allows you to have access to email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere from your desktop, browser, and mobile devices. 1 PM...( read more ) ...read more

Microsoft Press is pleased to announce Start Here! , a new series aimed at teaching the basic skills that people completely new to a development language, technology, or product need in order to start programming. The Start Here! series walks readers...( read more ) ...read more

Hello. Andrew Whitechapel, who is working on a book titled Windows Phone 7 Development Internals (Microsoft Press, 2012), has an article in the November 2011 issue of MSDN Magazine called “Building a ‘Mango’ App.” The article describes use of some of...( read more ) ...read more