Breaking Windows

Furnishes a gripping account of the people who executed Bill Gate's plan to establish a monopoly in the 1s and 0s of digital code by creating a new kind of business orgamism, and how they are dealing with the limits of Microsoft's growth and their own mid-life crises. 50,000 first printing.

David Bank, a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, has covered Microsoft since 1996. Previously, he was a technology and telecommunications writer for the San Jose Mercury News. His articles have appeared in Wired, Newsweek, and Out. A 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, he is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He and his partner live in Berkeley, California. This is his first book. Additional information can be found at www.breakingwindows.net.