Experience learning made easy--and quickly teach yourself new ways to work with Windows on your PC and touch- enabled devices. With Step by Step, you set the pace-- building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Explore the Start screen and use touch on tablets
• Connect your home network, email, and social media
• Customize your experience with cool apps
• Manage photos, music, movies, and connect to Xbox®
• Organize files and folders; store them in the cloud
• Help secure, troubleshoot, and tune your system

CIPRIAN ADRIAN RUSEN is a technology aficionado and former IT project manager for a major consumer goods corporation. In his spare time, he likes to experiment with the latest technologies, learning how to use them and sharing his knowledge with others. He coordinates the team of bloggers at 7 Tutorials, writing tutorials for Windows users and helping them achieve the best possible computing experience. He is the author or co-author for several Microsoft Press books, including Microsoft Office Professional 2013 Step by Step and Network Your Computers and Devices Step by Step.

JOLI BALLEW is a Microsoft MVP for Windows and holds many Microsoft certifications, including MCSE, MCTS, MCDST, and MCT. She is an award-winning, best-selling technical author of over 50 books. Joli has been working with computers, gadgets, and all things media since her freshman year in college in 1982, where, even then, she was aware of her interests and strengths and majored in computer science and systems analysis. Joli is the Microsoft IT Academic Coordinator at Brookhaven College in Dallas, Texas, where she also teaches. Among the many titles Joli has written for Microsoft Press, she is the co-author of MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-632): Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007 and Windows 8.1 Plain & Simple.