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Ed Bott is an award-winning technology writer with more than two decades' experience writing for mainstream media outlets and online publications. He's served 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 recently released Windows 7 Inside Out.
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Ed Bott
Ed Bott is a freelance technical journalist and book author. All work that Ed does is on a contractual basis.
Since 1994, Ed has written more than 25 books about Microsoft Windows and Office. Along with various co-authors, Ed is completely responsible for the content of the books he writes. As a key part of his contractual relationship with publishers, he gives them permission to print and distribute the content he writes and to pay him a royalty based on the actual sales of those books. Ed's books are currently distributed by Que Publishing (a division of Pearson Education) and by Microsoft Press.
On occasion, Ed accepts consulting assignments. In recent years, he has worked as an expert witness in cases where his experience and knowledge of Microsoft and Microsoft Windows have been useful. In each such case, his compensation is on an hourly basis, and he is hired as a witness, not an advocate.
Ed does not own stock or have any other financial interest in Microsoft or any other software company. He owns 500 shares of stock in EMC Corporation, which was purchased before the company's acquisition of VMWare. In addition, he owns 350 shares of stock in Intel Corporation, purchased more than two years ago. All stocks are held in retirement accounts for long-term growth.
Ed does not accept gifts from companies he covers. All hardware products he writes about are purchased with his own funds or are review units covered under formal loan agreements and are returned after the review is complete.
Biography
Ed Bott
Ed Bott is an award-winning technology writer with more than two decades' experience writing for mainstream media outlets and online publications. He's served 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 recently released Windows 7 Inside Out.
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How much online privacy do you really have? Less than you think
How much privacy do you have on the web? An independent group called PrivacyChoice has undertaken the formidable effort of assigning a numeric score to popular websites, measuring their published...
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview due February 29: why it's not called beta
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview will be available for download on February 29. Why isn't it called a beta? Blame Google. And Apple. And Microsoft. Especially Microsoft.
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Did Google withhold malware protection details from partners?
Google's Safe Browsing API is a core security feature of Chrome that Google shares with Firefox and Safari. Now, a security research firm that specializes in measuring the effectiveness of these...
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Apple's lawyers clean up the sloppy iBooks Author EULA
Today, Apple released version 1.0.1 of its iBooks Author program. There's no new code, only a new license agreement. The sloppy language in the original license agreement is cleaned up, but the...
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Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from?
After reading last month's SEC filings, I was inspired to make some pie charts. Microsoft's a software company. Apple's a hardware company. What business is Google in? If you said search, guess again.
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What are your plans for the Windows 8 beta? (poll)
Over the past few months, Windows 8 has been publicly demoed and discussed in detail more than any other software program I can remember. Has all that information made you more eager to try...
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Legal legend David Boies won't get another crack at Microsoft
Barnes & Noble thought it had a strong defense against allegations that its Nook e-reader infringes on Microsoft patents. It even hired a legendary antitrust lawyer to lead that part of the case....
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Symantec says it's safe to use pcAnywhere again
Last week Symantec told some 50,000 pcAnywhere users to stop using the software until it could fix a critical security flaw. Those patches are now available, and the company is offering free...
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Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft
The beta release of Windows 8 is just a few weeks away. It should be nearly feature-complete, and expectations will be high. So what's keeping managers in Redmond awake at night? Here are my top...
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What does the Office 15 schedule say about Windows 8?
In recent years, Windows and Office have moved on parallel development tracks. Today's announcement of an Office beta "later this summer" offers some useful hints about the Windows 8 schedule....
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Ease Windows 7 eyestrain with a bigger, blacker mouse pointer
If you're a Windows 7 user of a certain age, with cheap reading glasses stashed all over your home and office, this tip's for you. (And if it's not for you, send the link to your parents. They'll...
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Cast your vote in the Windows 8 release schedule prediction pool
It's that time again. The Windows 8 beta, er, Consumer Preview will be ready in late February. Think you can guess what's next? Cast your vote in the Windows 8 Release Schedule Prediction Pool.
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Closing thoughts on Apple's greedy, "crazy evil" iBooks license
This week's discussion of Apple's new license agreement for its iBooks Author program was what the State Department calls a "full and frank exchange of ideas." If you missed the debate, here's...
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With Apple's U.S. dominance, smartphone race heads overseas
Collectively, four recent earnings reports from very large companies paint a clear picture of the global smartphone market. Who's in the lead? That depends on where you look. Who's in second? That...
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Major Symantec breach highlights risks of running old software
Symantec says it has fewer than 50,000 users of pcAnywhere, a remote-access program that has been around for decades. It now says, for safety's sake, those users should pull the plug. Immediately.
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Some standards are more open than others
Ace Apple-watcher John Gruber thinks Apple is perfectly within its rights to build a proprietary, incompatible version of the open EPUB digital book standard. It's not their business to reduce the...
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How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books
For nearly two years, Apple has wooed digital book publishers and authors with its unconditional support of the open EPUB standard. With last week's introduction of iBooks 2.0, Apple has...
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Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement
Over the years, I have read hundreds of license agreements, looking for little gotchas and clear descriptions of rights. But I have never, ever seen a legal document like the one Apple has...
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The trouble with CES: too much electronics, not enough consumer
What's the matter with CES? Part of the problem is that it hasn't really changed since 1981. Here's my analysis of what's wrong and what a truly competitive 21st Century show should offer.
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Linux won't be locked out of Windows 8 PCs, but FUD continues
A new draft of Microsoft's Windows 8 hardware certification specs confirms what we already knew: the new Secure Boot feature won't lock out Linux on hundreds of millions of new PCs. But Linux...
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