I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

Moody, Fred

ISBN 10: 0140176551 / ISBN 13: 9780140176551

Published by Penguin Group USA, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140176551
• ISBN 13: 9780140176551
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 7 ounces

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Synopsis

Fred Moody spent a year shadowing a team of Microsoft developers working on a children's compact disc to be called Explorapedia. What he discovered was that, when the novelty and excitement surrounding the newest generation of software is stripped away, one finds a world not of high-tech efficiency but of simple human muddling.

Review

An outsider is allowed into the labyrinth to watch a Microsoft multimedia project from conception to partial completion. If you are interested in understanding Microsoft's strengths--and weaknesses--breaking into new markets, this is a must-read book.