| Mark Minasi is a
best-selling author, popular technology columnist,
commentator, keynote speaker, and all-around alpha geek.
What separates him from many of the other alpha geeks,
however, is that he knows how to explain things to normal
humans and often make them laugh while doing it. That's
reflected in his recent Reader's Choice award for "Favorite
Technical Author" at CertCities. More testimony to his
popularity with tech world came at the SearchWin2000 webcast
on tuning computers. At that webcast, Mark drew three times
as many attendees as any previous webcast, crashing Yahoo!'s
servers.
He is probably best known for his books in the Mastering
series (Mastering Windows Server 2003, Mastering Windows
NT Server, Mastering Windows 2000 Server, Mastering XP
Professional, etc.) and his perennial hardware PC repair
and fix-it book The Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance
Guide, now in its 13th edition. His monthly columns in
Windows and .NET Magazine are among the best-read in the
periodical. Mark has also authored 19 other technology
books, spoken on technical topics in 20 countries, and
written and performed in a dozen technical education videos.
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Not all of Mark's books are technical. He
also penned McGraw-Hill's The Software Conspiracy: Why
Software Companies Put Out Faulty Products, How They Can
Hurt You, and What You Can Do About It, a book that
challenges the popular acceptance of shrink-wrap software's
low quality relative to other consumer goods and motivates
the consumer to demand low-defect software. |
