Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry-And Made Himself the Richest Man in America

click here for more details, find new or used items	Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews Used from £1.06 Pages: 534 (Hardcover) ISBN: 0385420757 Pub: Doubleday Pub date: 1993-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 112356

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A Good Read (0/2 people found this helpful)

The book was well written, informative and unbiased. However, it had too many characters and too many jumps across the space time continuum. This is a good primer to Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System.

The most informative Bill Gates book out there! (3/3 people found this helpful)

This is by far the most personal look at Bill Gates I've ever seen. It gives an insider's view of what it was really like to work for Microsoft in the early years. This includes everything from Bill's temper tantrums to his personal hygiene and old girlfriends. A must read for any Bill Gates follower!

Fantastic!! (0/1 people found this helpful)

An excellent read!! That's all I can say about it. If you've been around computers since 1977, as I have, you'll love this book. Get it!!

The only reasonably accurate Microsoft history. (4/4 people found this helpful)

Having read most of the "histories" of Microsoft and Bill Gates and having been around the PC industry for a couple of decades, this was the only one of the books that triggered more "I remember that" reactions than "Wait a minute, that wasn't what happened" reactions.

More myth-making about Gates (1/3 people found this helpful)

This is yet another in the long line of books that invents history to justify the wealth of a single individual. Gates never invented anything of significance in the software area or any other; he and his gang have bought, copied, or stolen virtually every software advance Microsoft has ever marketed. The only amazing thing about Gates and gang is their unfailing ability to produce and sell low-quality operating systems and software applications. No one will ever get at the full "real story" about Gates, and all these books do is boost the prominence of this late 20th-century version of the classic robber baron.

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