Ed Bott is an award-winning author and technology journalist who has been researching and writing about Microsoft Windows and PC technology, in print and on the Internet, for more than two decades. Much of that work has appeared in The Ed Bott Report on ZDNet (zdnet.com/blog/bott), where his signature hands-on advice columns and buying recommendations have been a fixture through at least a half-dozen Windows versions. Ed has written more than 30 books, all on Windows and Microsoft Office, which have been translated into dozens of languages and read worldwide. You can catch up with Eds latest opinions and get hands-on advice in his newsletter, Ed Botts READ ME; for details, visit edbott.com/newsletter. You can also connect with him on Twitter (@edbott) and on the open source Mastodon network (mastodon.social/@edbott). Ed and his wife, Judy, live in Atlanta, Georgia. They are currently between dogs.