About
My name is James M. Fisher and I have had the honour and the pleasure of being a Microsoft MVP awardee since October 2003.
In late ‘97, I purchased a brand new Pentium 200MMX with 64MB of RAM and a whopping 3.4GB hard drive. Now, I was introduced to Windows 95. OSR2, to be exact. Inquisitive person that I am, I promptly messed something up that required me to pay a local shop good money to reinstall Windows. I vowed to be more careful, but I wanted to know how to fix such things myself. Thus began my journey into the strange, yet wonderful world of the PC.
Next was an upgrade to Windows 98, then 98SE.
About this time, I was invited by MS to be a beta-tester for Windows Me. Next up was Windows XP and that was pretty exciting to watch it’s development and have a small part in it. Then it was Service Pack 2 for XP, Vista, and now Windows 7.
The Ciprian Interview: http://www.vista4beginners.com/James-Fisher-Interview
The Rich Robinson Interview: http://mintywhite.com/tech/news/interview-with-microsoft-mvp-james-fisher/
The Brief History of WindowsTalk
This is actually the fourth version of WindowsTalk.
The first version of WindowsTalk was not owned by me, but was started by a handful of Windows 98 beta testers in order to continue their association and Win98 support after the beta closed down. Several years ago I came into contact with this group, and by then, the content of the site was so old (XP was the current version of Windows at the time) that I suggested updating it. The offer was then made to purchase the windowstalk.org domain name so that I could manage the site myself. I readily agreed!
I then purchased a FrontPage template, got web hosting and WindowsTalk 2.0 was born.
Eventually, I discovered blogging and found it much easier than maintaining a website. So I set up a free account at Blogger and WindowsTalk Blog (WindowsTalk 3.0) went live in the summer of 2008.
Now, I have moved to Wordpress on Host Gator and I hope WindowsTalk 4.0 will be here for many years to come. There have been some changes in the theme, however. 
I presently serve as a Moderator at The Windows Club Forums, and I live in beautiful Atlantic Canada with my wife and our dachshund, Ginger.
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Still others have not been personally tested, but have been recommended by others whom this author respects.
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