PRESTON GRALLA

Preston Gralla is a contributing editor for Computerworld, and the author of more than 35 books, including "How the Internet Works," "Windows XP Hacks," and "Windows Vista in a Nutshell." He has written about technology for more than 20 years, and has published in numerous national magazines and newspapers, ranging from Computerworld to USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, and CIO Magazine. Seeing Through Windows

Five Reasons a Windows Fan Also Loves the Mac

After recently living with a Mac for two weeks, long-time PC user Preston Gralla has come up with five good reasons a Windows person can still love a Mac.

Opinion: Five Things Ballmer Should Say at CES

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer should skip the pep rally speech this year and deliver some straight talk on Windows 7 and Vista.

Microsoft Vista SP2 Beta: Nothing Obviously New to See Here

The beta of Vista's new service pack keeps most of its changes under the hood, so if you're expecting visible changes you'll be disappointed.

Windows 7 Review and Video: This Time Microsoft Gets It Right

Computerworld's Preston Gralla concludes that Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system shows great promise in his hands-on review of the pre-beta.

50 Tools to Speed Up or Otherwise Enhance Your PC

Free and low-cost downloads that will make your PC run more quickly and smoothly, help you use the Internet more effectively, and push Windows to work at optimum speed with the interface you want, not what Microsoft gave you.

Review: Google's Chrome, The First True Web 2.0 Browser

Google's new Chrome browser uses simplicity and some clever new features to bring Web surfing into the 21st century.