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Rohm, Wendy Goldman

 
9780812927160: The Microsoft File

Sinopsis

With the help of detailed accounts of private meetings and interviews with those close to Bill Gates, an investigative journalist traces the Microsoft president's quest to drive his competitors out of business

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<b>Wendy Goldman Rohm</b>  is an award-winning writer who has covered the high-tech world for over a decade. Her articles have appeared in, among other publications, Wired, Upside, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Financial Times, and Information Week, and have been syndicated by The New York Times Syndicate International. Rohm is also a playwright and poet, and lives with her daughter in Evanston, Illinois. She welcomes correspondence at wendy@compuserve.com.

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crosoft File</b> is an extraordinary fly-on-the-wall account of Microsoft's intent to monopolize the computer industry. Wendy Goldman Rohm takes you to the inner sanctum of Microsoft, has you sit in on meetings between Microsoft and important customers and competitors, and looks at the struggles of the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice as they try to develop a strategy to counter one of the most serious charges of market manipulation since John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.<br><br><b>The Microsoft File</b> is based on information from not one but many "Deep Throats," as well as internal documents that tell a story of:<br><br>> How Microsoft's predatory marketing and pricing behavior belies its claims of fair competition.<br><br>> How Microsoft killed the market for a competitor's operating system, a system that could have challenged MS-DOS.<br><br>> How bugging devices were found in the hotel room of a supposed business partner of

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