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Title: Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry-And Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews ISBN: 0-671-88074-8 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great history of PC computing
Comment: I bought this book expecting to skim through it to find out a little more about what Bill Gates was like. But it's a wonderfully readable history of the growth of PC's, from the early days when the best a school kid (Bill himself) could do was to try to get access to a teletype time-share system, on through the first home "computers" that amounted to little more than a bunch of switches and LEDs (no keyboard or monitor), to IBM coming out with the PC and Microsoft's amazing good fortune at supplying the OS (great story! Bill just cared about programming languages, mostly BASIC, and saw the DOS manuever mostly just as a way to ensure that BASIC would run on the new IBM machine!), on thru the OS/2 vs. Windows battles.
It even has a lot of inside detail on the development of the Apple Macintosh. I recently read "Accidental Empires" (the basis for the TV documentary "Triumph of the Nerds"), and found Gates to be a far better and more readable history of the PC's startup.
The book is packed with interviews and amusing or interesting anecdotes. It's well written and well edited. One drawback for some people will be that it hasn't been updated since 1995, but for the two main things that have happened since then - the anti-trust suit against Microsoft and the rise of the Internet - there are plenty of other sources.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Detailed History in the Making of a Monoply...
Comment: I won't get wordy here but I read this book twice and enjoyed it both times. It goes into the life of Bill Gates; his thought process, his work ethics, his childhood and how Microsoft established it's dominance. It's a good read even though it's over 500 pages. I highly recommend this book along with the book "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire". This is the way it really happened. Not the way the movie "Pirates of SV" incorrectly portrayed it.
Rating: 4
Summary: An interesting account of Bill and the evolution of the PC
Comment: This very readable book provides a candid overview of the rise of Bill Gates and Microsoft. I found it interesting and insightful. Like much of the material about "billg", I find it a little sycophantic -- but it is not over the top. Key success ingredients: early signs of selfishness, million dollar trust-fund from his grandfather (which no doubt provided safety and leverage at the start), an early passion for an incredibly important technology at the critical period and a shrewd, single-mindedness. I suspect Bill is not a particularly compassionate, polite, happy or fair person -- however I bet he is really efficient!
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Title: Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace, Jim Erickson ISBN: 0887306292 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Bill Gates by Jeanne M. Lesinski ISBN: 082259689X Publisher: Lerner Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How the Company Outsmarts Its Competition by Randall E. Stross ISBN: 020132797X Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Bill Gates Speaks : Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur by Janet Lowe ISBN: 0471293539 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 09 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Road Ahead (CD ROM included) by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson ISBN: 0140260404 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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