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Microsoft has been great at providing a lot of content and services online. In addition to hitting their sites as needed, I also try to hit their site now and then just to take note of their top level sites.

Please note that Microsoft changes their web structures so often that some of these links may not work. Microsoft.com is one of the world's largest Web sites and they have a lot of inconsistencies. EG: They have Microsoft.com/Office (for selling the product) as well as Office.Microsoft.com (for using the product). You simply have to use their site frequently and know how to navigate to what you need from scratch.

The search feature of any Microsoft site sucks [as of 2004-03]: it will return results but the correlation between what you get and what you want is very low in comparison to Google. In fact if you have to search, use Google and it might point you to the part of Microsoft that you need.

• Microsoft.com. The home site for Microsoft Corporation. The following links have the syntax of either "Topic.Microsoft.com" or "Microsoft.com/Topic".
  • /Catalog. All products.
    • /BusinessSolutions.
    • /Games.
    • /MSN.
    • /Office.
    • MSDN.Microsoft.com/VStudio.
    • /Windows.
    • /WindowsServerSystem. The old directory name of "/Servers" was much better.
  • Resources
    • /Communities.
    • /Downloads.
    • Learning Tools
      • /TrainCert. Training & Certification.
      • MSPress.. Surprisingly good books.
      • /Resources/Practices. New 2003-06. "Best practices", i.e. suggestions on implementations.
      • /USA/Events. Let's all go to MS Events as if we were Trekkies.
    • Office.Microsoft.com/ProductUpdates.
    • /Security.
    • Support.. Product Support Options.
      • Support.Microsoft.com/Search. Product Support Knowledge Base.
    • WindowsUpdate..
  • Info For
    • Individuals
      • /Insider. Home Users.
      • MSDN.. Developers.
        • MSDN.Microsoft.com/Support. Developer support.
        • Forums.Microsoft.com
      • /TechNet. IT Professionals.
        • /TechNet/ScriptCenter.
        • /TechNet/Security.
        • /TechNet/Support. IT Professionals support.
    • Organizations
      • /Partners. Microsoft Partners.
      • /SmallBusinesses.
      • /Enterprise. Large Businesses.
      • /Business/Industry. Industry? What the heck does that mean?
      • /Government.
      • /ServiceProviders.
      • /Education. Educational Institutions.
      • /PressPass. Journalists.
  • About Microsoft
    • /MSCorp. Corporate Information.
    • /MSFT. Investor Relations.
    • /Careers.
    • /Backstage. About the MS site itself.
  • /Worldwide.
  • Search.. Search the MS site.
• MSDN.Microsoft.com. (Microsoft Developers Network). For developers and programmers. The following links have the syntax of "MSDN.Microsoft.com/Topic".
  • /Community.
    • /Chats.
    • /Usergroups.
    • /Newsgroups.
    • /VKiosk. Volunteer Kiosk.
  • /Columns. Columns by actual people. This used to be "/Voices".
  • /MSDNMag. Deep into MS.
  • /ShowsAndWebcasts. I've never been into this kind of stuff.
    • /MSDN TV.
    • /TheShow. The .NET Show.
    • /VBTV.
    • /Training/Webcasts.
  • /Support.
    • /HowTo.
  • /TCE. Training, Career and Events.
  • Libraries
    • /Code. Source code, both samples and functional.
    • /Downloads. Its free but they're actually buying you.
    • /Library. Surprisingly good, I'm here often. Get it on CD or DVD if you like.
    • /Workshop. Web Workshop. This has since been merged with /Library but the homepage for /Workshop has a good set of MSDN Library links pertinent to Internet technologies.
  • /Subscriptions. For a tons and tons of CDs. Actually I love my MSDN Universal.
  • /DeveloperCenters. "aggregate all the content and resources that you need to be successful around a particular product, technology, audience or geography." Many topics are covered but here are Key Topics.

    My Picks	MSDN Picks 2003-06
    /Access /ASP /DataAccess /DataAnalyzer /DirectX /IE /Office /Office/FrontPage /Scripting /SOAP /SQLServer /SQLXML /UDDI /UI /VBA /VInterdev /Windows2000 /WindowsMedia /WindowsXP /XML	/NETFramework /Architecture /ASP.NET/ /Security /VBasic /VCSharp /VisualC /VJSharp /VStudio /WebServices /WindowsServer2003

• MSN.com (Microsoft Network). Microsoft's portal to the Web for the public.
  • ComputingCentral.MSN.com. Friendlier than MSDN & TechNet. Nice FAQs, chat rooms, and message boards. Extends beyond the MS world.
  • Zone.com. Gaming Zone.
  • Hotmail.com. Free e-mail.
  • LinkExchange.com. Web banner exchange service.
  • Search.MSN.com. Search the Web.

By Microsoft Employees

Geez, you'd think that they loved working for Microsoft or something.

• DataGrid Girl. By Marcie Robillard.
• John Porcaro's Weblog. "Group Manager on the Home and Entertainment Division's PR team."
• The Scobleizer Weblog. By Robert Scoble.

By Others

• Annoyances.org. An extension of the infamous Windows Annoyances books by David Karp, published by O'Reilly.
• ComputerHope.com
  • Microsoft DOS A complete brief overview of each of the MS-DOS commands. There are still plenty of uses for DOS.
• EasyDOS.com.
• KMFMS.com. An anti-Microsoft site.
• Microsoft-Watch.com.
• NTFAQ.com. John Savill's Windows FAQ.
• Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows [winsupersite.com]
• PSC Excel Web Source. "one of the most comprehensive Excel97/2000/2002 and Excel/VBA sites on the Internet. More than just a list of links or downloadable files, the PSC Excel Web Source has over 150 of pages devoted to specific Excel topics, hundreds of example formulas, and much more."
• kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/. Windows Resources. Lots of How Tos, Tips, Tricks, etc.
• WinNetMag.com. Windows & .NET Magazine.
• WUGNet.com. Window's Users Group Network.

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