The Making of Microsoft: How Bill Gates and His Team Created the World's Most Successful Software Company

by Daniel Ichbiah, Susan Knepper

Traces the story of Bill Gates and the software company he founded, Microsoft, which revolutionized the computer industry

Genres: Business, Computers, Biography, History, Technology

304 pages, Hardcover

First published August 5, 1991

About the author

Daniel Ichbiah is a French author of several books on musical and technical topics. He has written a biography of Bill Gates which was published in some fifteen countries and also a big book about robots, which appeared in the US and Germany as well as in France. He has also written biographies of Madonna, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Coldplay and also various French artists.

Reviews

[Nalin Savara]

Read it as a child and totally loved it - found it recently in my old stuff and skimmed it again and it is still as awesome and still as inspiring as it was when I first read it as a kid.

It's one of the books that inspired me to get into tech and it's still one of the most straightforward and well written books I've ever read in my opinion.

Please please please do read it if you can - it's just awesome!

[Jean Schindler]

Written in the early '90s and translated from French - a very well-researched but accessible narrative about the early days of Gates, Microsoft, and the sofware market.

[Ethan Kraus]

Interesting read about the early years of Microsoft and Bill Gates.

[Sunish]

Read it long before I got access to Internet and it was a great read to understand how Microsoft came into existence.

[Jim Lavis]

This is a nice introduction regarding the story of Bill Gates and the making of Microsoft. It shares the struggles and challenges Bill had in the beginning, and I'm always amazed how leaders like Bill Gates are motivated to build empires like Microsoft. It's a good read.

[Gallusman]

Très interessant, pour les geeks. Ceux qui ne connaissent pas l'histoire de l'informatique risquent de s'y perdre.

[Akshay]

looks like a school text book. and is more boring than one.