Microsoft gives away almost 300 ebooks -- master Windows 8.1, Office 365, and much more

Eric Ligman, Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager, has released a whole new batch of free ebooks, covering topics such as Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows 7, Office 2013 and Office 365, Azure, Lync 2013, and SQL Server. There are ebooks and resource guides for all things Microsoft. For the past few years, Ligman has been writing posts in which he has given away almost 150 free Microsoft ebooks, and now he has another 130 more titles available to download for free, in addition to all the ones previously offered. Yes, that's right -- there are now close to 300 titles… [Continue Reading] Continue reading at 'Betanews'

[ Betanews | 2014-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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