Ed Tittel has been working in and around IT for over 30 years. Though he’s been working with and writing about Windows since the early 1980s, he has been a Windows Insider MVP since 2018 and earned MVP (Windows) in 2024.
The author of more than 100 computing books, Ed is perhaps best known for his Exam Cram series of certification prep books and his half-dozen or so …For Dummies titles (including HTML For Dummies, now in a 14th edition). These days, Ed writes regularly for Computerworld, Tom's Hardware, and AskWoody.com.
Since 2009, Ed has also opined and testified as an expert witness in over 60 patent suits, mostly on web development and markup language topics. To learn more about Ed, visit his website at edtittel.com, where you'll also find his daily Windows blog.
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