September, 2009

We’re happy to announce that Windows 7 Resource Kit (Microsoft Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780735627000; 1,760 pages), by Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northup, and Jerry Honeycutt, shipped to the printer today!...

…to help us make books that better meet your standards: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/booksurvey ...

Mark Russinovich will be presenting at a free-for-everyone Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp at PDC09. Sign up now!...

We’re pleased to announce that Windows 7 Step by Step, by Joan Preppernau, Joyce Cox, and Online Training Solutions, Inc., is now available for purchase in bookstores (Microsoft Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780735626676; 544 pages)!...

We’re pleased to announce that Windows 7 Inside Out, by Ed Bott, Carl Siechert, and Craig Stinson, is now available for purchase in bookstores (Microsoft Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780735626652; 1056 pages)!...

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Microsoft Windows 7 (Microsoft Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780735627086; 912 pages), by Ian McLean and Orin Thomas, is at the printer. Congrats, Ian and Orin!...

"One of the things that I often discuss with people who write VBScript code is the process of translating VBScript code to Windows PowerShell code. In fact, several years ago, I was approached about writing a utility that would automate the process. I thought about it long and hard, and in the end decided to forgo developing such a tool."...

Microsoft Press's books keep popping up on The Big Bang Theory....

Juliana, Sandra, Ben, Melissa, Denise, Valerie, Laura, Devon, and everybody else at Microsoft Press wish Ed Bott a happy happy birthday today! Ed, it’s been a repeated pleasure to work with you book by book over all these years....

We’re pleased to announce that Windows 7 Plain & Simple, by Jerry Joyce and Marianne Moon, is now available in bookstores (Microsoft Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780735626669; 400 pages)!...

Part 1 of an multipart review, by MVP David Morton, of the new edition of Windows Internals, Fifth Edition, by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon, with Alex Ionescu....

We’re pleased to announce that Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming, by Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, Roger Wolter, Greg Low, Ed Katibah, and Isaac Kunen, is now available!...

In case you haven’t seen the news, Microsoft Press and O’Reilly Media, Inc., will be partners starting November 30. Some details here....

Microsoft Learning is offering up to 25% off select (many) certification exams and E-Learning collections....

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

A week from today, on Saturday October 3, Kalen Delaney, the main author of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals (Microsoft Press, 2009; ISBN: 9780735626249; 784 pages), will be presenting at SQLSaturday #26 at 11:30 AM in Redmond, WA....

A reminder that the early-bird $500 discount for PDC09 ends soon....