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Amazing book that goes up to 1994 or so is Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the microsoft Empire.

It's writing and editing certainly leave a lot to be desired but from a historical standpoint about Microsoft, it's a fantastic read.



Gates by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews is a much better book. Bigger, better researched, better written, and a lot more accurate.

(Paul Andrews worked for the Seattle Times and Microsoft was his beat. I guess he just had more and better contacts.)

Hard Drive did well because it came out first and filled a big hole in the market. However, Gates was sufficiently better to become a best seller.




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