Yeah, that's right, MS is giving stuff away for free. And it's good stuff too: *Programming Windows Phone 7* by Charles Petzold<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Charles_Petzold>(yes, he actually DOES have a tattoo of the Windows logo on his arm!) *Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010* by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines *Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2* by Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner<http://www.sqlskills.com/AboutStaciaMisner.asp> *Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2* by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker<http://www.zacker.com/>with the Windows Server Team at Microsoft *Own Your Future, Update Your Skills with Resouces and Career Ideas from Microsoft* by Katherine Murray <http://revisionsplus.com/> (also available as a free PDF - http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/7/5/87567EBA-8B2A-4BB5-8D93-6FDB44CB9907/693616ebook.pdf) Grab them from https://blogs.msdn.com/b/southafrica/archive/2011/08/30/free-stuff-from-microsoft-ebooks.aspx Need a good ebook reader? Try Mobipocket. Not only is it a really nice reader, but it reads a whole host of formats and runs on more platforms than you can shake a stick at. Grab it from http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/ProductDetailsReader.asp Take advantage of this guys and happy reading! Cheers, AJ -- Thanks, ERDDUG Admin *___________________________________________________* *ERDDUG - The E**ast Rand Developer and DBA User Group http://bit.ly/ERDDUG_NH* *@ERDDUG* <http://twitter.com/ERDDUG>