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Summary: The Journey of the world's richest man
Review: THe biography of William Henry Gates, chairman of Microsoft, the richest man in the world. Hard Drive speaks of Gates amazing journey from a hacker to a morgul. Read this book to learn the journey of the world's richest man.
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Summary: To Bill Gates Fans Club
Review: There are only two words about this book....
READ IT!!!
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Summary: The Early Days
Review: This book gives a fascinating insight about Microsoft and how the two buddies Gates & Allen transformed the way we live, learn and play today. More important is, the book gives us a glimpse of an often misunderstood genius, Bill Gates himself. Read this book and you'll get the idea what makes him tick. Really, he is not as bad as some people would like us all to believe.
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Summary: The Early Days
Review: This book gives a fascinating insight about Microsoft and how the two buddies Gates & Allen transformed the way we live, learn and play today. More important is, the book gives us a glimpse of an often misunderstood genius, Bill Gates himself. Read this book and you'll get the idea what makes him tick. Really, he is not as bad as some people would like us all to believe.
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Summary: Tells you the INSIDE story of Microsoft
Review: This book gives you the inside story of Microsoft. If you have always wondered why Microsoft always takes out the competition, or how Bill Gates ticks, this book describes it all. Truly an excellent book. I recommend it to any aspiring business person who wants his company to suceed. If the world had more Bill Gates, well it would be a great world.
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Summary: Good information but out of date
Review: This book has a 1992 copyright. Near the end mention is made of Word Perfect, which the authors say is still way out in front of Word. I'm a Word Perfect fan and am concerned about the results of the well known predatory competitive tactics of Gates, since I've seen Word Perfect beat up on to the point where it is struggling to survive. If Word Perfect leaves the scene or is much diminished, that will be real loss to the consumer, because Word Perfect is substantially easier to use than Word. Also, Word Perfect has historically been much more user friendly re: tech support (free and toll free), while Microsoft, as usual, and true to its hardnosed style, doesn't answer its phone. Because computer industry time works on an accelerated clock, a 1992 book is SERIOUSLY out of date. The book is good (though rather flat in its journalistic presentation), as far as it goes, but the ending is a disappointment when you realize how much is left unsaid.
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Summary: The rise and rise of Gates and Microsoft
Review: This book is an excellent biography of Gates and that little startup company called Microsoft. The book is well written, the story flows chronologically, detailing Gates' childhood in the 1960's, his fascination--bordering on obsession--with computers, and his relentless focus on starting Microsoft.
It is a fascinating story and full of parallels and insights for anyone starting a business in the technical field. Nobody is perfect, we all have flaws, including Gates, but he did almost everything right. He was focused, he had ambition, intelligence and he applied himself relentlessly. When it came time to take risk, he stepped up to the plate more than once, and when the pressure was on, he didn't buckle under.
His detractors say he got lucky. Well as a famous athlete once said, "the harder I practice, the luckier I get." That phrase is applicable to Gates.
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Summary: First book to read if u want to know about Gates
Review: This book is the best book about Gates i ever read. It is tell about Gates and it's company,Microsoft, from each early year till today, detailed but still easy to understand. I think this book is good for any Gates's fan who want to have a first book about Gates .
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Summary: very inspiring story
Review: This book portrays an intensely driven person. He was born with talent and wealth, yet he did not rely on either of these to just get by. He pushed his talents to their limits. While still in gradeschool, he would pull all nighters programming. The picture of him sleeping on a table in the schools computer lab reminds me of Edison sleeping on the bench top in his lab. We have all benifitted from the increase in productivity that computers have brought to many types of work, and credit is due to Bill Gates and others like him that worked very hard to improve the quality of computing. This book reveals the intensity with which he works, and made me feel happy about his success.
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Summary: Greatest Microsoft Information book I have ever read
Review: This Book puts a whole new prespective of microsoft and tells of how bill gates tried to keep microsoft small
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