Analysts
Stuart J. Johnston, Manager, Seattle Office
Stuart J. Johnston has been analyzing and reporting on Microsoft-related technologies and markets for more than fourteen years. He has regularly appeared as the “Tech Expert” on ABC-TV’s Seattle station, as well as on the BBC and TechTV on cable. He has also been widely quoted in national radio syndicates as well as the New York Times and other newpapers. He has been a columnist for Information Week, PC World, and InfoWorld, as well as spending several years as the Seattle bureau chief for InfoWorld. He has also written cover story analysis for XML Magazine. His areas of coverage have ranged from Microsoft’s object technologies to tools, application development environments, messaging middleware and operating systems to Microsoft’s Biztalk XML Server and related technologies.
He won the Computer Press Association’s national award for best news story in 1993 for his coverage of Microsoft’s MS-DOS 6.0 bug debacle, and he was a key participant in InfoWorld’s landmark coverage of the IBM/Microsoft operating systems split in the early 1990’s.
Prior to becoming involved in the computer business, Stuart was a professional musician, where he was the opening act for Juice Newton, Hank Williams Jr., the Paul Winter Consort, and Cheech and Chong. This background shows up today in the lively and very human perspective that he brings to his analysis of deeply technical subjects.
Stuart holds a bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Montana.