Microsoft: The Company and Its Founders

Technology Pioneers

by Ashley Rae Harris

This title examines the remarkable lives of Bill Gates and Paul Allen and their work building the groundbreaking computer company Microsoft. Readers will learn about each founder's background and education, as well as his early career. Also covered is a look at how Microsoft operates, issues the company faces, its successes, and its impact on society. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Technology Pioneers is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

112 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Ashley Rae Harris lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She completed an M.A. from the University of Chicago, where her research focused on adolescents and Web culture. Ashley's work has appeared in VenusZine and Time Out Chicago. Though she has written several books for teen audiences, THE PRANK is her first horror novel.

Reviews

[Lynda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this book is targeted at adolescent readers, that did not stop me from picking it up from my local library. I was not disappointed as I got to review a lot of the knowledge I had picked up over the years about Microsoft in a compact format and I finished the book in an hour. Adults who are strapped for time and just need a cursory overview and refresher can turn to this book (or read it with their kids, that's the whole point right?). The part about the founders celebrating one their many successes, before they turned 21, with ice cream and non-alcoholic cocktails is certainly a light-hearted and fun moment in the book while still managing to highlight key pivotal moments in the company's history. What a long way Microsoft has come since its founding in 1975. Another update to this book would need to be written in five years (or less) as change is exponential now.

[Shaundell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative text describing the life of Bill Gates in founding the Microsoft Company.