Microsoft (Windows) operating systems

Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed is the most comprehensive and realistic guide to planning, design, prototyping, implementation, migration, administration, and support.

This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system.

If you want to build applications that take full advantage of Windows Vista's new user interface capabilities, you need to learn Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Compared to industrial-strength database products such as Microsoft's SQL Server, Access is a breeze to use.

This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data.

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This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data.

This guide is strikingly different from other books on Microsoft ADO.

If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream.

If you're considering the vastly improved 2007 version of SharePoint, this concise, practical and friendly guide will teach you how to get the most from the latest version of Microsoft's information-sharing and collaboration platform.

For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools.

Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup & Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material.

Schedules, budgets, communications, resources.

Microsoft Excel continues to grow in power, sophistication, and capability, but one thing that has changed very little since the early '90s is its user interface.

This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day.

Windows Vista is Microsoft's most important software release in more than a decade.

So much of what is commonplace today was once considered impossible, or at least wishful thinking.

This fast-paced book teaches you the basics of Access 2007 so you can start using this popular database program right away.

This unique reference thoroughly documents every important setting and feature in Microsoft's new operating system, with alphabetical listings for hundreds of commands, windows, menus, listboxes, buttons, scrollbars and other elements of Windows Vista.

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Working with Microsoft's network directory service for the first time can be a headache for system and network administrators, IT professionals, technical project managers, and programmers alike.

As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created, Excel is familiar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard.

A smart collection of insider tips and tricks, Windows XP Hacks, Second Edition covers the XP operating system from start to finish.

Want to work more efficiently and effectively?

A car PC or carputer is a car tricked-out with electronics for playing radio, music and DVD movies, connecting to the Internet, navigating and tracking with satellite, taking photos, and any electronic gadget a person wants in a car.

As part of the Microsoft Office suite, Access has become the industry's leading desktop database management program for organizing, accessing, and sharing information.

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Windows PowerShell, formerly know by its codename "e;Monad"e; and available now for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, and soon for Exchange Server 2007 and MOM, is the future of Windows administration.

O'Reilly has once again updated its bestselling tutorial on ASP.

In the last few years, security has become a hot-button issue for IT organizations of all sizes.

This book is the Windows Server version of the classic TCP/IP Network Administration.

Millions of people use Microsoft Word every day and, chances are, you're one of them.

Windows XP Pocket Reference is a handy book for power users and system administrators who need a solid reference with quick answers, but not a lot of explanation.

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SharePoint Office Pocket Guide is the quick path to sharing documents and building lists.

Samba is a cross-platform triumph: it turns a Unix or Linux system into a file and print server for Microsoft Windows network clients.

Any Outlook power user knows that Microsoft Outlook is more than just an email program: it's a suite of organizational tools that can help you manage your schedule, contacts, and deadlines with remarkable efficiency.

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While Mac OS X garners all the praise from pundits, and Windows XP attracts all the viruses, Linux is quietly being installed on millions of desktops every year.

From simple calculations and lists to critical business management systems, Excel is not just the dominant spreadsheet application, it's one of the most widely used software applications in the world.

C# programmers all have one thing in common -- they're learning a new language.

Though most programmers use two or more languages, they usually have a mastery of one.

The rapid proliferation of mobile networks for both public use and private has made connectivity-on-the-go a desirable, if not absolutely essential, condition.

For a long time, a lot of Windows users have been clamoring for the opportunity to run the Mac OS X operating system on their Windows PCs.

For years, support for scripting and command-line administration on the Windows platform has paled in comparison to the support offered by the Unix platform.

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 consistently proves to be worth its weight in gold, with new implementations thought up every day.

Quickly learn the most useful features of Microsoft Office 2007 with our easy to read four-in-one guide.

This practical guide has exactly what you need to work with Windows Server 2008.

This practical guide has exactly what you need to work with Windows Server 2008.