>>Most places will take your order and ship it is available.
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>Except for Microsoft itself, evidently. All that's available there is a 'coming soon' announcement (http://shop.microsoft.com/comingsoon/default.asp). No way to advance order it, that I can find.


I don't think MS does this themselves anyway. Everytime I've ordered from MSPress, I get routed to a book reseller.