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"Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" (1992) https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp/0887306292 https://www.amaz
by johansch 10y ago
"Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" (1992)
https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp/0887306292 https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41611.Hard_Drive http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41611.Hard_Drive
Mostly re-read the parts of the book that talk about the 80s (the creation of the PC, DOS, Windows, the PC clones, Microsoft and Intel outsmarting IBM, Microsoft bullying the rest of the industry, etc.).
- pjmorris 10y agoI've not read 'Hard Drive', but I've re-read 'Gates' by Manes and Andrews, and can recommend it.
- johansch 10y agoWell, ditto. I can recommend 'Hard Drive' just by its sheer writing/research quality. Apparently the book came out of a series of articles in "The Seattle Times", back when newspapers employed quality writers/researchers. It gave me a) a whole new understanding of the computer hardware/ecosystem I grew up with b) a re-newed insight into why Gates was a horrible, horrible monopolist who held back software development for the world quite a bit. My best guess is by about 5 years. (And that estimate is actually quite generous towards Mr. Gates.)
- pjmorris 10y agoI don't think you'd be surprised in the large by anything in 'Gates', though there may be a story here or there that 'Hard Drive' didn't present, and vice versa. I'll make a point to read 'Hard Drive' as well, I find the perspective helpful.