Breaking Windows
by David Bank · first published 2001
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…viable desktop OS) to promote IE and attempt to get a stranglehold on the web is a significant part of what got them in trouble. Excellent book covers the situation in more detail: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Windows-Fumbled-Future-Micro...
on “Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store” ↗Completely agree. This book <br> http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Windows-Fumbled-Future-Micros... although dated gives some good historical context on Microsoft Management culture (although it is focused more on Gates).
on “Microsoft is not a web company” ↗This book gives a good perspective of some of the internal feuds at Microsoft (from the dotcom times): http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Windows-Fumbled-Future-Micros...
on “Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant” ↗And another one about the .net: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Windows-Fumbled-Future-Micro...
on “How Hotmail changed Microsoft and email” ↗You could ask the same of Google and Chrome. An excellent treatise on the topic is discussed in Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft, by David Bank. It describes a lot of the tensions that existed inside Microsoft as they tried to figure out how to continue selling Windows as a platform,…
on “From Redmond with Love - IE team sends cake for FF4” ↗