Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1497638836 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 338 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Good Book on the History of NT Development" according to Aardvark. This book is a 2008 update to the original 199A Good Book on the History of NT Development Aardvark This book is a 2008 update to the original 1994 release. Unfortunately even that is a bit dated now with references to Nokia being more influential than Microsoft in setting new digital standards especially in the wireless arena. That hat was passed to Apple and Nokia is now owned by Microsoft. In addition, the book mentions that David Cutler went on to work on the Cairo project but no mention is made in the update that the project was canceled in 1996.Overall it is an enjoyable read and reminds me a lot of "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder. It is interesting to see the personalities at work on t. release. Unfortunately even that is a bit dated now with references to Nokia being more influential than Microsoft in setting new digital standards especially in the wireless arena. That hat was passed to Apple and Nokia is now owned by Microsoft. In addition, the book mentions that David Cutler went on to work on the Cairo project but no mention is made in the update that the project was canceled in 1996.Overall it is an enjoyable read and reminds me a lot of "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder. It is interesting to see the personalities at work on t. Enjoyable book Bz I enjoyed reading this book. The work environment there was very bad. I hope it isn't like this today and I wouldn't advise anyone to work under such conditions unless there is a guarantee of a large financial incentive.At the end of the book, the author lists all the people he interviewed. Wow - that must have been a lot of work - the author seems too humble.. An enjoyable accessible book Barbara R I really enjoyed reading this story about the creation of Windows NT.I'm no computer geek but Zachary told the whole story in an accessible and easy to read way
Pascal Zachary. Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Driven by the legendary Bruce 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.
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. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author, and teacher. He also writes on globalization, America’s role in world affairs, immigration, race and identit
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. He also writes on globalization, America’s role in world affairs, immigration, race and identity, and the dysfunctionalities and divisions in US society. . Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author, and teacher. Zachary concentrates on African affairs. About the AuthorG