Microsoft gives away nearly 300 free, tip-packed ebooks and resource guides

Get ready to drink deep from the fountain of knowledge. As he's done in years past, Microsoft senior sales excellence manager Eric Ligman has compiled a veritable flood of free Microsoft ebooks and other resources, offering up nearly 300 gratis guides for your reading pleasure.To be fair, most of the materials—which we first noticed thanks to BetaNews—are basic guides, sales materials, or deeply technical tomes delving into the arcane arts of, say, Azure, Sharepoint, and Microsoft Dynamics. Valuable resources, sure, but maybe not consumer-friendly resources.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'

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