This just arrived in today’s mail bag:

I’m 80 years old and I dislike people giving me false information; Its called lying. Its bad enough trying to get the windows 8.1 to work for me without a cheat sheet. I was elated to find an offer of a cheat sheet on p.5 of windows 8.1. Not finding it was very frustrating can you remedy my problem. By the way; I hate computers but they are a necessary evil which I have to put up with.

I wonder how many people this guy has called a liar have then helped him. I composed a reply in my mind and deleted his email.

For the record: I wrote a book on Windows 8.0 almost two years ago. One year ago, Wiley asked me to revise that book for the 8.1 update. Sadly, my mother-in-law was dying at that time. I chose family over commerce. Wiley hired another writer to revise the book. Apparently, he didn’t explain this in his revision nor did he include his email address in the new book. Worse, I don’t even have a copy of the book nor do I have any control over the referenced cheat sheet.

I made no money on the 8.1 book and I make no money helping readers. Through no fault of their own, readers don’t know this odd situation. I help the polite ones.

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