The Best of Windows® 7: The Official Magazine at Dominant Systems Book Store

Explore the practical, fun, and creative things you can do right now with Windows® 7-with expert guidance from the editors of the only officially endorsed magazine for Windows® 7. This guide comes packed with smart-and-simple tips-and vibrantly illustrated how-to's-on everything from navigating the Windows® interface to taking advantage of new operating system features to fun projects for home, school, and work. Topics include boosting your productivity with Windows Live™ and Windows® Internet Explorer® 8, thwarting hackers, organizing your photo and music collections, making movies, streaming to an Xbox 360®, controlling your TV from your PC, using Windows Calendar to get organized, setting up a home network in 10 minutes, and more.

Customer Reviews & Comments
Written by the British staff of the Official Windows Magazine (which comes out quarterly here stateside and is not a bad magazine, available at your local B&N and Borders bookstores), this beginner's guide to Win7 is rather poorly written. Some of the step-by-step instructions are missing a step or two, and the layout is hideous: each topic is spread over two facing pages, but often it's not obvious wether you should read across the top of the two pages first, or read one page before the other. I feel that even though the book underwent editing by an American English speaker, the writing is still very awkward to an American reader. What I hate the most though, are those so-called super tips, which are nothing but some very basic things anyone under 50 can figure out on their own (no offense to anyone over 50 as I'm getting there prety soon). For better introductions to Windows 7, try Windows 7 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) or Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows 7 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)).

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