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Title: World War 3.0 : Microsoft and Its Enemies by Ken Auletta ISBN: 0-375-50366-8 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Packed With Knowledge!
Comment: Although a paranoid, childish and somewhat sniveling Bill Gates is the undoubted antagonist in author Ken Auletta's gripping account of the U.S. government's escalating war against Microsoft, it's tough to find the good guys. By detailing the legal maneuverings of Microsoft's competitors, which in large part spurred the government to action, Auletta pierces some of the innocent-victim personas adopted by the likes of Sun CEO Scott McNealy and others. But the author's treatment of Gates and his Microsoft colleagues is merciless, and in this honest portrait Auletta illustrates how the company's own arrogance brought on its legal woes. News junkies may find the broad outlines of the case familiar, but Auletta uses his readable style to delve into the major personalities and their motivations. We [...] like the way he makes even legal, technological details interesting to the general reader and fascinating to fans of corporate war stories. Read this book before catching the gripping sequel - playing now in U.S. Federal Court - in which Microsoft lands a critical counter-punch.
Rating: 5
Summary: It ain't over till it's over-MSFT vs US in exquisite detail
Comment: Just when we were waiting for Microsoft to meekly split itself based on the outcome of the first landmark court decision, it looks like the software giant is racking up the points in what may be the most exciting appeals case in US history.
World War 3.0 couldn't have come at a better time. This book goes into background about Internet browsers, the internet itself and computer operating systems, a key point in the anti-trust lawsuit. And it does an equally thorough job of informing the reader about US anti-trust law. These details are essential to understanding the case against Microsoft, and they are presented here in a way that is detailed yet completely comprehensible.
This would be dry reading indeed if there were not also vivid descriptions of the players; Bill Gates, brilliant, visionary,self-absorbed and completely ill-equipped to play the high-stakes game of personality; the prosecutor, who has gotten himself the case of a lifetime and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, traditional and sober judge. What is surprising is how much Judge Jackson reveals in this book, as judges are notoriously close-mouthed.
The appeals process is now underway and it ain't over till it's over. If you want to be informed on a case that will literally affect the future of technology, it's well worth reading World War 3.0.
Rating: 1
Summary: Rehashed newspaper articles
Comment: No new revelations here. This story has been told in earlier books, and with more ground breaking impact. This is a case of the publisher hoping to capitalize on a big business story, but too late !! See earlier books on the Microsoft antitrust case, such as The Microsoft File.
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Title: The Highwaymen: Updated and Expanded by Ken Auletta ISBN: 0156005735 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era by John Heilemann ISBN: 0060011637 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Trust on Trial by Richard B. McKenzie ISBN: 0738204811 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Winners, Losers & Microsoft by Stan J. Liebowitz, Stephen E. Margolis ISBN: 0945999844 Publisher: Independent Publishers Group Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information by Bernardo A. Huberman ISBN: 0262582252 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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