Microsoft
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Software platform company whose PC-era dominance, antitrust ordeal and cloud-era revival each generated their own shelf of books.
9 books · 4 people behind it
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- Hard DriveJames Wallace, Jim Erickson, 1992
- Hit RefreshSatya Nadella, 2017
- Show-Stopper!G. Pascal Zachary, 1994
The people behind it 4
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Founders 1
Academics 1
Journalists 2
Books 9
T2 Hard Drive
James Wallace, Jim Erickson · 1992 · Subtitled Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire.
G. Pascal Zachary · 1994 · The building of Windows NT; a classic of software-project reporting.
T2 Idea Man
Paul Allen · 2011 · Insider memoir by the co-founder, including his break with Gates.
T2 Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella · 2017 · Insider account by the CEO who repositioned Microsoft on cloud and AI.
T3 Overdrive
James Wallace · 1997 · Sequel to Hard Drive, on the browser wars and the road to antitrust.
David Bank · 2001 · Internal strategy fights over the internet and the antitrust case.
Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne · 2019 · Insider account by Microsoft's president on tech policy and regulation.
Randall E. Stross · 1996 · Sympathetic 1990s analysis of Microsoft's competitive method.
Jennifer Edstrom, Marlin Eller · 1998 · Insider account by a former Windows developer; hostile in tone.