Ed Bott is an award-winning technology journalist with more than two decades’ experience writing for mainstream media outlets and online publications, including stints as editor of the U.S. edition of PC Computing and managing editor of PC World; both publications had monthly paid circulation in excess of 1 million during his tenure. He is the author of more than 25 books on Microsoft Windows and Office, including the best-selling Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, Second Edition and Windows Vista Inside Out, published in 2007, and Windows Vista Inside Out, Deluxe Edition, which includes updated coverage of Service Pack 1 and 300 pages of new content. You can order any of those titles direct from Amazon.com or find them at your favorite local brick-and-mortar bookstore.

Ed is currently working on Windows 7 Inside Out, which will be published in September 2009. You can pre-order it now from Amazon.com:

For more of Ed’s writing and reporting, be sure to visit Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report at ZDNet.

Ed lives in the American Southwest with his wife Judy, their aloof yet strangely charming cat, Katy, and a pair of rescued English Springer Spaniels named Mackie and Lucy.