Windows 8: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue

With Windows 8, Microsoft completely reimagined the graphical user interface for its operating system, and designed it to run on tablets as well as PCs. It’s a big change that calls for a trustworthy guide—Windows 8: The Missing Manual. New York Times columnist David Pogue provides technical insight, lots of wit, and hardnosed objectivity to help you hit the ground running with Microsoft’s new OS.

This jargon-free book explains Windows 8 features so clearly—revealing which work well and which don’t—that it should have been in the box in the first place.

Paperback

First published December 22, 2012

About the author

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "For Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music). In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

David and his wife, Jennifer Pogue, MD, live in Connecticut with their three young children.

Reviews

[Steef Jacobson · Rating 5 out of 5]

forget that windows 8 doesn't come with a manual; this fixes that. It's well organized and helps you get to the real issues of win8. There's even an upgrade spot that explains what you'll lose by upgrading (I luckily have win7, so I loe nothing but win-xt is really f'ed). The size though is really large so don't expect to read it on the subway but have it next to your computer till you get used to win8.