Windows 7 Day – Get your Laptops powered by Windows 7 Beta

Golden Opportunity for those who want to try Windows 7 Beta and get their laptops loaded with Windows 7 Beta for Free.  The South Asia MVP Blog has just posted about it:  India’s Own Bootcamp: Windows 7 Day

On Saturday, 18th April 2009, several User Groups in India would host Windows 7 bootcamp event.

Windows 7 Beta is attracting a lot of buzz recently, and here is your chance to dive in the same. Attend the one-day workshop to gear up on all the necessary skills to get started on Windows 7 efficiently.

• Walk in with your laptops and get them powered with Windows 7
• Participate in the parallel sessions running
• Even if you are not carrying your laptops, feel free to attend sessions
• Lot of surprises await you!

Gurgaon (Hosts: Delhi IT Pro): Register here

Mumbai (Hosts: Mumbai IT Pro): Register here

Pune (Hosts: Pune User Group): Register here

Bangalore (Hosts: Bangalore IT Pro): Register here

Chennai (Hosts: Chennai IT Pro)

Siliguri (Hosts WindowsSupport)

Hyderabad (Hosts: Hyderabad Techies)

Registration for the event is free.

Please obtain your own Product Key by visiting: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

 

So Hurry Up, Grab this Chance and Experience what the World is talking About- Windows 7

(Source: India’s Own Bootcamp: Windows 7 Day )

EDIT: I have added few more User Group cities to the above list. Also this Windows 7 Day is getting lots of attention across blog world. Check this post also Windows 7 Day flows across the blog-o-sphere

Two More Free e-books from Microsoft Press

You might have seen my earlier posts related to free E-Books offered from Microsoft Press. Now continuing the celebration of  25th Anniversary of Microsoft Press, its offering two more very popular E-Books -

Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion by Charlie Russel and Sharon Crawford (27 chapters, 3 appendices, 719 pages) (PDF, 25.4 MB)

 
Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition: Build a Program Now! by Patrice Pelland (9 chapters, Glossary, 255 pages)(PDF, 7.7 MB)

Its a Must have, full colored hands-on book to learn Visual Basic 2008

NOTE: Get them now, as this offer ends on April 22 from the links provided.

Please note that you have to register to download the Full Book and also it gets downloaded as ‘pdf_loader.pl’ which you have to rename them with .pdf extension to open them in pdf reader.

Free E-book: Illustrated C# 2008

RedGate is offering a Free download of e-book Illustrated C# 2008 from APress Publishers. Its a 730 pages e-book, downloadable in .zip format ~18.3 MB.

You can download it from here.

(Source: Stefano Mapelli's weblog)

Windows7 Swag

I am member of Microsoft Connect and do participate in testing various Microsoft products. At present I am involved in testing Windows 7 Beta as one of the main products along with some others at Connect.

So we regularly have lots of Live chats and Live meetings with Microsoft Products Team members. This is the best part, where else can one have the opportunity to interact with these experts who are involved in developing such great products. During such chats we discuss various queries, suggestions and all these are answered by these Products Experts.

Recently during one of such Windows7 Live chats,  I had won a prize for the ‘Best Suggestion’ . From time to time one gets goodies for “Best suggestions’ , ‘Best Question’ etc put up during the Live Chat. So its all fun mixed with Experts talk. And last week I received the Windows7 Swag. They sent a Windows7 USB Aquarium, Bobble Pen and a Notepad. Here’s a screenshot :

Thank You Windows 7 !!!