Barbarians led by Bill Gates
Subtitle: Microsoft from the inside, how the world's richest corporation wields its power
By: Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller.
Contributors: Eller, Marlin.
Edition: lst ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Gates, Bill, 1955-; Microsoft Corporation.; Computer software industry -- United States.
Description: From the epoch-making 1983 Las Vegas launch of Windows to the ongoing Internet Explorer v. Netscape antitrust suit, this "developer's eye view" sets the record straight on any number of hotly debated - and often hotly litigated - turning points in the short but colorful history of the Information Age.

How did Microsoft miss the Internet boat in the first place, letting Netscape capture the lead in Web browsers? How exactly did they - or didn't they? - rip off the Macintosh in the development of the Windows interface? What's the real story - the truth that eluded even GO Corporation CEO Jerry Kaplan in his own book - of how Microsoft came from behind in pen computing to drive GO out of business?

And how did Microsoft get all those "Windows" pillowcases all over Las Vegas in their first, half-million-dollar launch of the product that didn't exist?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-244) and index.