Microsoft Press is the

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arm of

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Press' introduced books were ''The Apple Macintosh Book'' by Cary Lu and ''Exploring the IBM PCjr Home Computer'' by

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in 1984 at the

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. The publisher has gone on to release books by other recognizable authors such as Charles Petzold,

Steve McConnell Steven C. McConnell is an author of software engineering textbooks such as '' Code Complete'', ''Rapid Development'', and ''Software Estimation''. He is cited as an expert in software engineering and project management. Career McConnell gradua ...

Mark Russinovich Mark Eugene Russinovich (born December 22, 1966) is a Spanish-born American software engineer and author who serves as CTO of Microsoft Azure. He was a cofounder of software producers Winternals before Microsoft acquired it in 2006. Early lif ...

and Jeffrey Richter. Following a deal signed in 2009,

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became the official distributor of Microsoft Press books. In 2014, the distributor was changed to Pearson. In July 2016, Microsoft Press editorial staff was laid off.

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* Microsoft divisions Computer book publishing companies Publishing companies established in 1984 {{microsoft-stub