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3 unusual facts about Microsoft Press


Code Complete

Code Complete is a software development book, written by Steve McConnell and published in 1993 by Microsoft Press, urging developers to get past code and fix programming and the "big design up front" waterfall model.

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The publisher has gone on to release books by other recognizable authors such as Charles Petzold, Steve McConnell, Mark Russinovich and Jeffrey Richter.

Microsoft Press' first introduced books were The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu and Exploring the IBM PC by Peter Norton in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire.


Dino Esposito

Dino Esposito is a consultant and the author of several .NET books published by Microsoft Press.

History of Microsoft

This expansion included Microsoft Press, a book publishing division, on July 11 the same year, which debuted with two titles: Exploring the IBM PCjr Home Computer by Peter Norton, and The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu.

Out of the Inner Circle

Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security is a book by Bill Landreth and Howard Rheingold, published in 1985 by Microsoft Press and distributed by Simon & Schuster, Inc. (ISBN 0-671-30942-0).

Tony Northrup

Northrup has published 32 how-to books covering Windows systems administration, software development, and photography for Microsoft Press, O'Reilly, SAMS Publishing, and Mason Press.


see also

Computer Lib / Dream Machines

The book had two front covers to indicate its intertwingled nature, and was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by a division of Microsoft Press.