Microsoft is making sure that IT Professionals and developers can access information that will help them embrace Microsoft’s latest release of desktop and server operating system.

The Redmond company has released two ebooks, that are available for free download, focused on...

• Windows 7 <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EE2A1D38-88A9-43B3-95BC-7E962F0B6030&displaylang=en>
  
  ...combines selected chapters written by industry experts Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows 7 Team with select Windows 7 articles from TechNet Magazine.
  Sample topics include:
  
  • Deployment Platform,
  • Planning Deployment,
  • Testing Application Compatability, and
  • 8 Common Issues in Windows 7 Migrations.

• Windows Server 2008 R2 <http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/10/20/free-e-book-introducing-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx>
  
  ...is designed to simplify the installation and management of the latest iteration of Windows Server for larger learning providers running Windows-based servers. Covering every aspect of Windows Server 2008 R2 in nine chapters and approximately 200 pages is clearly an impossible task. Rather than try to cover everything, they’ve focused on what is new and important, while giving readers the context from Windows Server 2008.