Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - Paperback

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Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - Paperback

Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - Paperback

by G. Pascal Zachary
$23.99
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Book Overview

This "inside account captures the energy--and the madness--of the software giant's race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping" (Fortune Magazine).

Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business.

Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
ISBN9781497638839
Author G. Pascal Zachary
PublisherOpen Road Media
GenreBiography, Education, Business, and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages338
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - Paperback

Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - Paperback

By G. Pascal Zachary

About G. Pascal Zachary

G. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author, and teacher. He spent thirteen years as a senior writer for the Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001) and writes regularly for newspapers, magazines, and journals, including Salon, Foreign Policy, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wilson Quarterly, Fortune, and AlterNet. Zachary concentrates on African affairs. He also writes on globalization, America's role in world affairs, immigration, race and identity, and the dysfunctionalities and divisions in US society.

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