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Summary: Intense, informative, and inspiring - career motivational
Review: This was the best book that I have ever read. It honestly changed my life. I was always interested in computers and technology (mabye that is why I am majoring in Electrical Engineering) but this book helped me focus my dreams of starting a company in high-technology. This book gives the formula for being extremely rich and successful. The choice is yours whether or not to use it and make all the sacrifices that goes with it. This book shows what kind of person it takes to create a multi-billion dollar corporations. Incredible drive, superior intellect, and expert salesmanship. You will also get some insite into how some of the other multi-million dollar names came about. If you have interest in business and computers, this book is a must read.

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Summary: Honest, complete, precise, easy to read even for a French
Review: When, coming from UNIX, I decided to explore the PC platform in Jan 95, I was first an "ABM" (Anything But Microsoft), thus following the buzz. When, two years later, I investigated personally into this, I discovered with great surprise at which point all the mediatrics were twisting the facts, mostly in the same official buzz word, "lynch Microsoft". Mostly, but not always - which made hard to be sure of anything.

In about every article or book I checked, I found factually false statements (in either camp's favor); this "Mogul" book was the only that at the same time contained a lot of precise facts and dates, and none that I could find in error.

The writing and its index are very good, offering an optimized combination of fun reading, fast finding, accurate checking.

[e-mail] - Paris, Fri 22 Jun 2001 14:02:20 +0200