Quick news: Microsoft Press wins awards at STC Competition

We’re happy to announce Microsoft Press recently won seven awards from the Puget Sound chapter of the Society for Technical Communications (STC). Four books received the Award of Excellence and three received Merit Awards.

Congratulations to our authors, editors, and everyone involved in making great books at Microsoft Press!!

Award of Excellence

STC description of this award: An entry that wins an Award of Excellence consistently meets high standards in all areas. The entry might contain a single major flaw or a few minor flaws. The entry demonstrates an exceptional understanding of technical communication principles.

	Exam Ref 70-411: Administering Windows Server 2012 R2 Author: Charlie Russel Editor: Karen Szall
	Microsoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller Authors: Yung Chou, Keith Mayer; Mitch Tulloch, Series Editor Editor: Karen Szall
	Windows 8.1 Inside Out Author: Tony Northrup Editors: Valerie Woolley and Rosemary Caperton
	Windows Runtime via C# Authors: Jeffrey Richter and Maarten van de Bospoort Editors: Devon Musgrave and Carol Dillingham

Merit Award

STC description of this award: An entry that wins a Merit Award consistently meets high standards in most areas. The entry might contain a small number of major or minor flaws, but it still applies technical communication principles in a highly proficient manner.

	Microsoft Azure SQL Database Step by Step Authors: Leonard G. Lobel and Eric D. Boyd Editors: Devon Musgrave and Rosemary Caperton
	Training Guide: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2 Author: Mitch Tulloch Editors: Karen Szall and Carol Dillingham
	Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Author: The Microsoft Dynamics AX Team Editor: Carol Dillingham

The competition is an excellent way to receive feedback for online Help, tutorials, websites, reference books, brochures, posters, phone apps, and other media. Each entry was evaluated by a panel of judges. The feedback is based on the international standards for the Society for Technical Communication.