Blogs

If you've been watching this blog, you know that I'm planning to make some changes to the score reports that candidates receive after completing a certification exam. Based on the suggestions and ideas that you've shared with me over the last...

We’re happy to announce that Windows Server 2012 Inside Out (ISBN 9780735666313) by William Stanek has shipped to the printer! Dive into Windows Server 2012—and really put your systems expertise to work! This supremely organized reference...

Details Date/Time: January 15, 2013 8:30-10:00am PST      ▪  Where: Live online      ▪  What: Engaging, demo-rich Q&A session     ▪  Cost: FREE!       ...

Our official distributor, O’Reilly Media, is running a special discount on books that recently won awards from the Society for Technical Communication (STC) of Puget Sound. Hurry. Deal ends Jan 16, 2013. Click here to see the books   ...read more

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...

Welcome to the weekly IT Academy update for the week of January 7th. We’re kicking off the new year with a roundup of education-related news from Microsoft, including events and opportunities you may have missed over the holidays. What...

We’re happy to announce that Training Guide: Configuring Windows 8 (ISBN 9780735673229) by Scott Lowe has shipped to the printer! This book will be available at retail stores by the end of the month. If you’re an IT professional with a...

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...

We are excited to announce that Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 Step by Step (ISBN 9780735669109) by Joan Lambert and Joyce Cox has shipped to the printer! You can preorder your copy here or here . To support an independent bookstore, preorder here . The...

A hearty congratulations to Andrew Brust, author of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Microsoft Press, 2012), for becoming a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional . Take a look at Andrew’s MVP profile here . Here’s an earlier post by Andrew as he...

Hello. We’re excited to help spread the word about Charles Petzold’s new MSDN Magazine column: DirectX Factor. (By the way, watch for a post from us very soon with an update about the about-to-publish Programming Windows, Sixth Edition . Hint: you have...

Greetings! We’re currently working with Paul Mehner on a book titled Developing Cloud Applications with Windows Azure Storage , which we expect to publish in April. Jeffrey Richter, who recently published a new edition of his classic CLR via C# (sample...