Books / Book 300
Date: 2002-12-05 (permlink)
Author: Jennifer Edstrom, Marlin Eller
Name: Barbarians Led By Bill Gates: Microsoft From The Inside
Rating: ***

Interesting reading, but I wouldn't bet on the truthfulness of any of it. Eller portrays himself as a genius that was always right and how Microsoft would have been 10 times bigger had he been listened to. Does that sound believable to anyone? Not to me, by a long shot. Just his claim that Microsoft could have "owned" the Internet had they started paying attention in 1992 is ludicrous. What exactly could Microsoft have done? If anyone thinks people would have started using Windows 3.1 to run their mail servers...