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The
Microsoft File
The Secret Case
Against Bill Gates
by Wendy Goldman Rohm
- Book Description
The Microsoft File 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.
The Microsoft File is based on information from not one
but many "Deep Throats," as well as internal
documents that tell a story of:
> How Microsoft's predatory marketing and pricing
behavior belies its claims of fair competition.
> How Microsoft killed the market for a competitor's
operating system, a system that could have challenged
MS-DOS.
> How bugging devices were found in the hotel room of
a supposed business partner of Microsoft's the day before
a critical meeting with Microsoft.
> How Microsoft inserted hidden code in the beta
version of Windows 3.1, creating fear in the marketplace
that competing products would crash and adding a byte in
the final version that was marketed so the hidden code
wouldn't appear on the screen.
> How close Apple came to discarding the Macintosh
operating system for Windows, and the real reason why
Bill Gates decided to invest some $250 million in Apple.
> How Microsoft, despite nondisclosure agreements,
obtained and used technological secrets from competitors.
> How the biggest mergers in the software industry
unfolded, blow-by-blow, as Microsoft's competitors tried
to survive the increasing power of the Gates juggernaut.
Is Microsoft's rise as the world's most powerful and
successful company a classic example of the free market,
as many Microsoft apologists contend? Is its success, and
the failure of other companies, the result of the
creative destruction that makes capitalism so strong? The
Microsoft File suggests that other forces were at work.
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