Microsoft Windows Vista: Peachpit Learning Series

Microsoft Windows Vista: Peachpit Learning Series

by Larry Magid (Author), Dwight Silverman (Author)

Synopsis

Nearly six years in the making, Microsoft's Windows Vista will offer users hundreds of new features, with a stylish new user interface, new search features, and better security tools. Best-selling authors and respected tech journalists Larry Magid and Dwight Silverman lead readers through the new Vista capabilities, including the new UI, Windows Sidebar, Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player, and Windows Mail. Readers can learn lesson by lesson, or jump to the exercise they need at the moment.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: 1
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 31 May 2007

ISBN 10: 0321441923
ISBN 13: 9780321441928
Book Overview: Nearly six years in the making, Microsoft's Windows Vista will offer users hundreds of new features, with a stylish new user interface, new search features, and better security tools. Best-selling authors and respected tech journalists Larry Magid and Dwight Silverman lead readers through the new Vista capabilities, including the new UI, Windows Sidebar, Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player, and Windows Mail. Readers can learn lesson by lesson, or jump to the exercise they need at the moment.

Author Bio
A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry Magid contributes to CBS News, the New York Times, and other media outlets. He served for 18 years as a technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and his columns have also appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, CNN.COM and numerous other newspapers and Web sites throughout the world. Larry is also the author of the best-selling Little PC Book and MySpace Unraveled.

Dwight Silverman
is a veteran journalist who has written about personal computers since the mid-1980s. He currently is the computing columnist and technology blogger at the Houston Chronicle, as well as the co-host of Technology Bytes, a weekly PC-help call-in radio show on KPFT-FM. You can read his blog and columns at www.chron.com. He lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife and two children. This is his first book.