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Title: Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft by David Bank ISBN: 0-7432-0315-1 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 13 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Detailed look at Microsoft
Comment: This book provides a very detailed look at the inner workings of Microsoft. It describes the battles within the company to determine how to change in the face of the internet revolution. The author provides tremendous detail, much of which is taken from email correspondence made public by the antri-trust case. Some of the detail may be a little dull for some. My major problem with the book is with the author's premise that Gates has "broken" the company by not adapting to the internet quickly enough and instead focused on protecting and extending the windows dynasty. Nobody has really figured out how to make money off the internet, so why blame Microsoft? Gates did protect the Microsoft cash cow (windows). The internet has not made windows extinct, at least not yet. I think a little time is required to see if Gates' strategy was the right one or not. However, still a very worthwhile read for any interested in Microsoft and the PC industry.
Rating: 5
Summary: I was there...
Comment: David Bank used to cover Microsoft for the Wall Street Journal. In this book he describes the period 1997-2000 at Microsoft as it coped with the success of Windows and Office and the threat of the Internet to the continuation of Microsoft's dominance. From e-mail snippets and interviews with many current and former Microsoft employees, he presents the "protect Windows" perspective of Bill Gates and Jim Allchin and contrasts that with the "do the new internet thing" perspective of people like Brad Silverberg and myself and others. Obviously Bill Gates prevailed and so a lot of people left. Overall I think a very balanced presentation -- you at least understand why Bill did what he did, even if you don't agree with his decision. Several juicy quotes from me. :-)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Job
Comment: David Bank does a good job of getting into the meat of the Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer story, and he was much help in helping me write my unauthoprized bio of Microsoft's CEO BAD BOY BALLMER.
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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 Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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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: 26 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: MICROSOFT SECRETS: HOW THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SOFTWARE COMPANY CREATES TECHNOLOGY, SHAPES MARKETS, AND MANAGES PEOPLE by Michael A. Cusumano ISBN: 0684855313 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 04 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard by George Anders ISBN: 1591840031 Publisher: Portfolio Pub. Date: 23 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company by Tim Jackson ISBN: 052594141X Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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