Showstopper!
The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
Recommended by Scott Johnson, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #41 in Microsoft
Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David 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... more
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Scott Johnson If you're interested in high tech as a career path then I'd recommend a series of case studies around the development of products / founding of companies. Here are four examples: Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981) Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan (1996) Show Stopper by G Pascal Zachary (1994) The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator by Randall Stross (2013) The Everything Store by Brad Stone (2014) These books all tell the tale of starting a company or building a product and despite covering a time span of 30+ years and multiple generations of technology the... (Source)
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