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I last updated our free ebook site in November, 2012, but I often get emails from readers wanting me to remind them where to find our complete list. Here it is: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/05/04/free-ebooks-great-content-from-microsoft-press-that-won-t-cost-you-a-penny.aspx You...

Hello again, Kraig here. Earlier this year we announced my blog, http://www.kraigbrockschmidt.com/blog , where I’d promised to be posting corrections to my free ebook, Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript , along with other material that I wasn’t able to include in the book. As many...

Hello everyone. Kraig Brockschmidt here. It’s been four months since the public release of Windows 8 and my free ebook, Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (which has been in the top 10 free programming books on Amazon for some time, and in the top 20 in Computers & Internet...

Kraig here. Anytime you write a book, such as Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript , a free ebook that we released last October in conjunction with Windows 8, you almost immediately see things to change or update! There are always more topics you would have liked to cover, but didn...

Hello! We’re very happy to announce that we have finalized Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows, Sixth Edition ! As many of you know— the many of you who purchased the ebook version of this title and have been receiving incremental releases of the ebook since May 2012 —Charles began writing this book...

Greetings, everyone. Charles Petzold is writing his final chapter, Chapter 19, “Pen (AKA Stylus)”; Marc Young, the book’s Technical Reviewer, is reviewing Chapter 17, “Share and Print”; and I’m wrapping up my edit of Chapter 14, “Bitmaps.” This means we’re looking very very good for publishing the book...

We just posted the links to download the Mobi and ePub formats of Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals You can find the links in the blog post here:  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/11/13/free-ebook-introducing-windows-8-an-overview-for-it-professionals-final...

We’re happy to announce that we have released the final version of this free ebook. FREE DOWNLOAD FORMATS: PDF Introducing Windows 8- An Overview for IT Professionals - PDF ebook Mobi coming soon ePub coming soon If you prefer a hard copy of...

  We are happy to let you know that we have posted sample chapters of Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (ISBN 9780735657984), by Richard Hundhausen, to the Microsoft download center here . To purchase a full copy you can order here or here . To support an independent...

Greetings, everybody. This is a quick note to tell you that we’ve updated the companion content for Kraig Brockschmidt’s free ebook Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript . So download the companion content again if you’ve already got it: http://go.microsoft...

I hear from a lot of you each week asking how to keep up with our free ebook announcements and updates to new versions. I thought I might write this post to give some handy tips. Hope you find it valuable. 1) RSS - Subscribe to our RSS feed (located on the right-hand side of the blog home page) and we...

To celebrate Windows Phone 8 and //build/ , Microsoft Press is making Windows Phone 8 Development Internals available in two preview digital editions—plus the final ebook, when ready—at special promotional pricing. Purchase between October 30 and November 5, 2012, and your cost is just $10...

Hello, Kraig Brockschmidt here. To help celebrate //build/ , I’m delighted to announce the completion of Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript! You  can download the ebook in PDF format here: http://go.microsoft.com/FWLink/?Linkid=270056 (17.9 MB) ( Note : We will be providing...

Perhaps you're familiar with our unique approach to publishing Charles Petzold's Programming Windows, Sixth Edition . Via this approach you're able to purchase two preview ebooks and the final ebook at one time at special pricing. This is a quick post to tell you that we're using a similar...

The Windows 8 operating system is the newest member of the Microsoft Windows family. It differs from earlier Windows releases as much for what it does not change as for what it does change. That is, the features that IT pros loved about Windows 7 are still there in Windows 8—just better. The same...

Hi, Carl Diltz here. The easiest way to read a free ebook in the Kindle for iPad app is to use Safari (the Apple browser on the iPad) to go to the download link for the ebook. (Browse, for example, to the third link at this page: Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2012 (RTM Edition) .) Tap the link...

Updated We just released the RTM version of our Windows Server 2012 ebook. Check it out! PDF - Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition - PDF ebook EPUB – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – ePub format MOBI – Introducing Windows Server 2012 RTM Edition – MOBI format (for Kindle)  ...

Mitch Tulloch has updated his very popular free ebook on Windows Server 2012 based on the RTM version of the software. A key feature of this book is the inclusion of sidebars written by members of the Windows Server team, Microsoft Support engineers, Microsoft Consulting Services staff, and others...

We’re happy to release the Second Preview of our free ebook Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript , by Kraig Brockschmidt , today. Here’s a description of the ebook from Kraig: Kraig here. Hello again! Now that the RTM build of Windows 8 is out and available to developers, along with...

The Second Preview of Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is going well. We’re up to 12 chapters in this release ( from four chapters in the First Preview ), all chapters are final, and we’re just putting together the PDF and the ebook’s companion content. Come back to our blog...

Greetings. On the book’s catalog page you’ll find a “Companion Content” link in the right margin: That link takes you to the companion content’s download page, which looks like this: The “Download the companion content” link there initiates your download of the ebook’s sample code, in this case the code...

We’re ready to release the Release Preview eBook of Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows, Sixth Edition . This book focuses exclusively on writing new Windows 8 apps with C# and XAML. (The companion content for this book also includes all the program samples converted to C++.) See this...

Greetings. We’d like to give you a sense of timing about the next release—the Release Preview version—of Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows, Sixth Edition eBook. As we’ve announced and described previously (and it’s a good idea to review that page again for details...

Greetings. We hope you’re enjoying the First Preview release of Kraig Brockschmidt’s Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript . It contains the four chapters boldfaced below. This is a note to say that we think we’ll release the Second Preview the first week of August, and we think it...

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