And thanks to Alas Babylon! for the ping!!
Posted on 07/10/2015 2:16:58 PM PDT by lbryce
How You Can “Download All” of the Microsoft eBooks I posted
Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager - Eric Ligman
RATE THIS Eric Ligman 9 Jul 2015 8:42 AM 3 image5 Ever since I put up my “I'm Giving Away Millions of FREE eBooks" post, I have once again been receiving a flood of fantastic comments and feedback about the resources, as well as several questions. Here’s a quick FAQ/How-To to help address many of these in one place as a way to make it as easy as possible for my readers to find what they need. I hope these help you out and address questions you have regarding the post.
*SNIP*
With this list of links, you should be able to use the browser plug-ins, etc. of your choice to download the full list in an automated way.
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Why would I want to download Microsoft eBooks?
Got a link to something useful? Oracle eBooks? Apple eBooks? Linux eBooks?
Cool! Thanks.
That is a refreshing attitude. Most of what Microsoft publishes is "How to Make Our Crap Work". Since they now style all of their documents after web pages full of circular links, there is almost no content. They used to print quality documentation twenty years ago. People nowadays mistake contentless pages with plenty of links to other empty pages for documentation.
Free new windows: Is there anyway to download
the new Windows for free.
Due out at the end of this month, from the press I see.
What are you running now?
If it’s Windows 7 or 8.1, you can upgrade to Windows 10 for FREE... Starting July 29th.
Check your Windows Update page in Control Panel.
Very ping-worthy for your Microsoft ping list, I think!
And thanks to Alas Babylon! for the ping!!
Well, I got 267 of them.
One of the commenters at the link suggested “wget” and I tried installing a windows version but I couldn’t make it work. Fortunately i had a Linux box that I could dust off and try. Wget was already installed on it and, with the aid of a text file of each linked article, I was able to capture a bunch. Now I need to sort through them and see if there’s anything of value ;’)
Thanks for the ping.
My opinion of the printed stuff of decades ago was pretty low, too. On of the early Word manuals, for instance, managed to burn 8 pages or something with various way to print a doc (mash the little printer on the toolbar, Ctrl-P, Alt-F,P, etc.), which were both self evident and the same as every other windows program, leavened with plenty of white space.
What there was very little or nothing on, was the more advanced stuff you couldn’t guess for yourself, like mail merge with a database.
This led to my theory that the developers weren’t allowed to speak to the “technical” writers. The docs guys just got a copy of the software and whatever they could figure out by themselves, they documented within an inch of its life to pad page count. Anything difficult or non-obvious, you know, the stuff that actually NEEDS to be in the manual, and you were on your own.
“wget” is a native command alias in Powershell. If you’re using Windows 7 or higher, you can use wget in Powershell to do the same thing. It is an alias for invoke-webRequest.
Long live PoSh!
Oh, how could I forget the documentation regarding their applications? That always has been a nightmare.
Silly me, I was actually thinking in terms of things like the MFC and WIN32 documentation. Their printed books that could be purchased separately to accompany the compiler suite were a lot better than the current hyper-linked circular void.
Oh. The best Win32 book was the Rector/Newcomer handbook. That wasn't a Microsoft publication. The Petzold book was pretty good.
Oh yeah, the books you purchased, even the ones from Microsoft Press, were generally pretty good. They had to be, right, cause the book was the item you were paying for? The “manuals” that came in the box, though, total dreck.
No so fast! They could be opened to just the right spot and used under a table leg to keep the table from being such a nuisance.
Why would I need that when I could use five AOL CD’s in their jackets?
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