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Microsoft Director of Sales Excellence - Eric Ligman wrote on his blog page that Microsoft is giving away hundreds of free ebooks currently covering a wide variety of topics that include Windows, Azure, Office, Windows Server, and SharePoint among others.

The giveaway features recent publications as well as older ones.

The Windows category for instance lists 14 ebooks covering Windows 10, among them "Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals", "Deploying Windows 10: Automating deployment by using System Center Configuration Manager" and "Upgrading to Windows 10: A simple hands-on guide for everyone".

Not all publications offered for free are full-blown ebooks with hundreds of pages though. Many are, but there is also a good selection of shorter publications, for instance the one-page PDF file that compares security features of Windows 7 with those of Windows 10.

Most ebooks are designed for IT professionals, administrators and business/Enterprise use. While that is the case, some are without doubt useful for home users as well.

Many ebooks are offered in several formats, with PDF, EPUB and DOCX the most common formats. You will find the occasional MOBI format thrown in but that is about it.

All ebooks are completely free which means that they don't have an expiration date associated with them.

One issue that you may run into however is that there is no "download all" button available that works. While there is a download all button displayed, it lists to a FAQ page that reveals why there is no such download option.

Free ebook selection

The following list provides you with a sample listing. All ebooks listed below are offered as downloads on the MSDN website.

Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals
Windows 10 IT Pro Essentials Top 10 Tools
Introducing Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Azure Essentials Fundamentals of Azure
Microsoft Azure Essentials Azure Machine Learning
Microsoft Azure Essentials Azure Automation
Introducing Windows Azure™ for IT Professionals
Microsoft® Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime
Introducing Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview
SharePoint Server 2016 Reviewer’s Guide
SharePoint Server 2016 Quick Start Guide for Single Server Farms
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016: Mission-Critical Applications, Deeper Insights, Hyperscale Cloud, Preview 2
Windows Powershell 4.0 Examples Quick Guide
WINDOWS POWERSHELL 4.0 LANGUAGE QUICK REFERENCE
Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition

The selection includes quite a few quick reference sheets for various Microsoft products. It is unclear for how long these ebooks will be offered for download, so grab them as quickly as you can before they are pulled again.

For the techies, the attached text file contains links to all the free ebooks. I recommend Jdownloader to download all the links automatically.