Gartenberg now writes as Analyst-in-Residence for imore.com.[4]
Work
After a 10-year absence, Gartenberg re-joined Gartner in 2010.[5] He previously worked as a partner at Altimeter Group,[6] as Vice President of Strategy and Analysis at Interpret, LLC,[7] and as a vice president at Jupiter Research.
Gartenberg had an aborted employment with Microsoft.[8] He was hired in February 2007 with the job title "Enthusiast Evangelist" to publicize Windows Vista[8][9][10] but left after three weeks in March 2007, returning to his former job at Jupiter Research.[11]
Gartenberg also contributes to many media outlets. He has monthly online columns in Computerworld[12] and Macworld and a weekly online column on Engadget. He previously wrote a weekly column for SlashGear.[13]
In October 2007, regarding a potential Microsoft Windows competitor, Linux, he wrote "Linux still doesn't make it on desktop.... For now and the foreseeable future, it's going to remain a Microsoft world. Linux still isn't the answer."[14] Gartenberg repeated the claim in an opinion piece published in March 2010, wherein he denied that use of a free operating system significantly reduces cost of computer ownership.[15]
In July 2009, Google announced the development of an operating system for netbooks, ChromeOS, due for release in late 2010. Gartenberg opined "Chrome OS is not a threat to Windows.... By creating of lot of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt this morning... they hope to take the attention and luster off of [Microsoft] Windows 7"[16] and "... history doesn't run in favour of Chrome OS's principles".[17]