In MEA ALM Community we are also celebrating Visual Studio 2012 launch too by launching HandsOnVisualStudio.com to experience, learn & practice Visual Studio 2012 via guided, multi-lingual and real-life labs
In this amazing site, we have made videos for the all 20 Hands on Labs for the Visual Studio 2012
Hope you enjoy them all 
I have made a post on MEA ALM Community Blog, showing some of the changed and added new features done in TFS 2012 from project management prospective, the new TFS web access and how it gives a high- level overview of the current iteration, also sprint planning and how it’s easy to adjust it by changing any the information of any task. Also showing task board where you can see the tasks by state and move the tasks from state to state visually.
To read the whole post click here
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Eric Ligman has shared 2 great posts about a lot of free ebooks to download
Here are some books’ titles:
Here are the 2 posts , it contains more than 60 free books (first post, second post)
Also there is an E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies where you can find more 
Somasegar (corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft) and Jason Zandar (Corporate Vice President for the Visual Studio team in the Developer Division at Microsoft) announced on their blogs that VS 2012 will be officially released on September 12th, mark your calendars and visit http://visualstudiolaunch.com for more details.
There are more good news for MSDN subscribers, VS2012 will be available to download on August 15th 
Today Windows 8 released to manufacturing (RTM) has been announced 
Here are the available dates for WINDOWS 8 RTM
Bob Tabor has made 21 video that will teach you the fundamentals of HTML5 & CSS3
Click here to watch the whole series on Channel 9
Brian Keller have been working on 2 amazing books for ALM and TFS 2012
click on images to get the books
Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 covers the full breadth of ALM capabilities available in Visual Studio 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012, and related technologies
Professional Team Foundation Server 2012 dives deeper into Team Foundation Server 2012 and is intended for anybody who needs to install, administer, or perform advanced configuration tasks with Team Foundation Server 2012
For more info you can read the whole article here
Brian Keller announced on his blog the DemoMate for visual studio 2012 ALM it’s a Silverlight-based rendering of a software demo which can be used to easily learn a demo or show it to an audience
You can run these DemoMates online, or if you plan on using these in an environment where you might not always have Internet access then I suggest installing the offline version.
Online:
● Agile Project Management in Team Foundation Server 2012
● Building the Right Software – Generating Storyboards and Collecting Stakeholder Feedback with Visual Studio 2012
● Diagnosing Issues in Production with IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 2012
● Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012
● Making Developers More Productive with Team Foundation Server 2012
● Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2012 – MSTest, NUnit, xUnit.net, and Code CloneOffline: (gets installed locally on your computer)
● Agile Project Management in Team Foundation Server 2012
● Building the Right Software – Generating Storyboards and Collecting
Stakeholder Feedback with Visual Studio 2012
● Diagnosing Issues in Production with IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 2012
● Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012
● Making Developers More Productive with Team Foundation Server 2012
● Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2012 – MSTest, NUnit, xUnit.net, and Code Clone
For Full article click here
Steven Sinofsky (President of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft) announced at Microsoft’s annual sales meeting that customers will be able to get Windows 8 starting on October 26th 2012
Ahmed Nasr's Blog 