My next book is almost ready

Even if you're already a Windows expert, I promise you'll learn something from it

I am reading page proofs for Windows 11 Inside Out this week. It has been a journey, but this book has almost hit the finish line.

You can pre-order the book at Amazon: Windows 11 Inside Out (Kindle and print editions). Pre-orders are important to authors like me, because they tell booksellers there’s an audience for their new work, which in turn inspires the booksellers to order and sell more copies.

I make a small commission off every sale that uses that Amazon link, so thanks in advance. If you prefer a different bookseller, please give them your business! I will gladly set up direct links to third-party sellers, regardless of whether they offer a commission. Send me an email or leave a comment and I’ll get in touch with them.

By my unofficial count, this is the 16th release in the Windows Inside Out series since I helped kick off the franchise in 2001. And every time I read page proofs for a new edition, I think back to that first one. I was sitting on the couch in the early morning on September 11, 2001, calmly reading page proofs, when a friend sent me an email saying, “Turn on your TV. Now.”

Thankfully, none of the subsequent editions have been as eventful as that one.

I’ve spent most of my professional career chronicling the ups and downs of Microsoft Windows and, more importantly, helping human beings make sense of its glorious mess.

The world has gone through a few changes in the 20+ years that have passed since that first Inside Out edition. When my co-authors and I wrote that volume, the world was very different. Twitter didn’t exist. The iPhone didn’t exist. The iPod didn’t even exist! Wi-Fi was years away from widespread adoption. The Handmaid’s Tale was fiction.

There had only been one Iraq War. Mobile phones flipped open, and you used them to talk to people. With your voice. The Internet was still sort of nerdy and TV ads still included AOL keywords. There was no such thing as an “app.”

You get the idea.

Anyway, I would be thrilled if you bought this book.

And if you use a Windows PC but don’t really think you want to invest in a book about how to use it, I understand. Stick around for a week or two and let me tell you about the next stage in my journey of delivering hands-on help for people who use Windows.