{"id":889,"date":"2009-11-18T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2009-11-17T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T19:17:40","slug":"a-new-edition-of-pcs-for-dummies-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"A New Edition of PCs For Dummies<\/em> is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Say hello to the 12th Edition of PCs For Dummies<\/em>, which landed in my office the other day.
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\nYes, it’s the 12th Edition, though the publisher has now opted to call it the “Windows 7 Edition.” That’s because the book’s release is timed around Windows 7, the latest unimpressive operating system from Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Yeah, okay: I like Windows 7. But given the advances made by Apple with Mac OS X, Windows 7 is a decade-old operating system that you can buy for your PC today! I mean, where is the innovation, Microsoft?<\/p>\n

Then again, that’s a question I’ve been asking Microsoft for decades now. Meanwhile, back to my book:<\/p>\n

The 12th Edition of PCs for Dummies<\/em> is not all about Windows 7. It covers Windows 7 as the primary PC operating system, but I have lots of information in there about Windows Vista and even some Windows XP stuff. That’s because PCs For Dummies<\/em> is, first and foremost, a computer hardware book.<\/p>\n

I also cover a bit about computer science in the book because, honestly, the more you know about your computer, the happier you’ll be using it.<\/p>\n

As I do with all my books, the new edition of PCs For Dummies<\/em> is a good re-write of the previous edition. I’ve added new information, reorganized, and updated everything. That’s just on the off-chance that someone out there actually buys every dang doodle edition of my book. It gives them something to look forward to.<\/p>\n

More appropriately, if someone has, say, the 8th Edition of PCs For Dummies<\/em> and they go out and buy this new edition, they’ll be getting a whole new book several times over.<\/p>\n

For example, I cover floppy disks pretty well in the 8th Edition, but I think floppy disks might be a sidebar in the Windows 7 edition of PCs For Dummies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m doing other book updates now, and have a new book planned for this winter. Should be fun. And, naturally, I look forward to updating PCs For Dummies<\/em> again, this time for whatever-the-heck they’ll be calling Windows 8. (I hope it’s not “Windows 8.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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