Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era

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DIANE Publishing Company, 2001 - Business & Economics - 246 pages
How did it happen that Bill Gates wound up being pursued and attacked by his own gov't.? And how did a co. that dominated the technology landscape find itself weakened, vulnerable, and under the threat of a court-ordered breakup? Here is the secret history of the antitrust trial that shook an economy: U.S. v. Microsoft. Drawing on years of reporting -- including extensive interviews with Gates and other top Microsoft executives, Justice Dept. trustbuster Joel Klein, superlitigator David Boies, Intel chief Andy Grove, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, and scores of lesser-known but pivotal players -- Heilemann lays bare the chaotic confluence of forces that shattered Microsoft's aura of invincibility and the climate of fear that held an industry in thrall.

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John Heilemann is the national political correspondent and columnist for New York magazine. He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker, the Economist, and Wired. He is the author of Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime and Double Down: Game Change 2012.

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