Breaking Windows : - ( How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
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Language: English
Published by The Free Press, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore, 2001
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x+287 pages with index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with silver lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. "Breaking Windows" tells the story of the battle for the soul of Microsoft that raged inside the company from 1997 to 2000 and continues to reverberate today. Drawing on hundreds of e-mails among Microsoft executives, trial testimony, and exclusive interviews with Gates and his chief lieutenants, "Wall Street Journal" reporter David Bank reveals the bitter maneuvering between what he calls Microsoft s "Windows hawks" and its "Internet doves." On one side were the fierce defenders of the hegemony of Windows, on the other those who championed a new way of doing business based on the Internet s "open standards." The reformers wanted to break free from the legacy of Windows and dare to compete on the merits of their software. Condition: Corners gently bumped else a near fine copy in like jacket.
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- Title
- Breaking Windows : - ( How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft
- Author
- David Bank (1960- )
- Publisher
- The Free Press, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0743203151
- ISBN 13
- 9780743203159
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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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.
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About the Author
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.
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