Michael Bartosh Passes

My heart sank and tears came to my eyes when I read this. I worked a little with this guy. He started as the apple student rep at Texas A&M. The same position I later held for three years. He left some big shoes to fill. One of the peices of advice he gave me was "get less sleep."

He was an awesome guy. I feel for his wife and family.

He fell from a balcony. And what is with all the future tense writing with the media these days. He passes? He dies? He falls? Shouldnt it be he Passed, died, fell ???? I am noticing this a lot in the news media these days. Anyway, sorry to see such a great asset to the Mac community die.

Ummm - crazy question, but as a Tokyo-ite how did he tragically die here?

Terrible to hear. I had just been emailing him about some ideas I had, and we might have worked together.

My best to his family.

Godspeed sir.

I visited a technology briefing on 23rd of may, only some days ago, and i read he is dead due to a tragic accident. It's very sad and shocking and a big loss. On behalf of my team: our thoughts go out to his family and friends, Michael will live on through his books and in all our memories.

Michael Bartosh will be sadly missed by the Mac community, heartfelt condolences to his wife. He leaves us far too soon.

With no offence to Michael, the nature of this report perhaps points out the editorial shortcomings of many of the TUAW bloggers. 'Passing away' is a well used and perfectly acceptable reportage term to describe an individual's death in many situations. However it is not particularly well chosen when someone dies from a sudden, tragic accident as happened in this case.

Um MacDiva needs some people skills. At the very least a drop of tact.

Michael will be missed.

“Suddenly passed away” is similar to “died suddenly,” a euphemism commonly used in newspaper reporting. Is that intended?

Holy crap! I'm sitting here in utter shock and disbelief. I only met Michael once and his knowledge and skills were so evident, not to mention he was one of the rare geeks who had a wonderful personality. He was even scheduled to be on-site doing some more work with my company later next month. This is completely tragic....