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Show-Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary
$10.90 Now $5.90 Save 46%
Show-Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
Show-Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

Unveiling Windows NT's turbulent, groundbreaking journey.

If you're fascinated by tech history or love behind-the-scenes industry stories, "Show-Stopper!" is right up your alley. By diving into the creation of Windows NT, it offers an in-depth look at the challenges and triumphs of software development on a monumental scale, all set against the backdrop of the cutthroat tech industry in the early '90s. It's a gripping narrative that puts you in the rooms where computing history was made.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Show-Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary
$10.90 Now $5.90 Save 46%
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ISBN: 9780316911139
Author: G. Pascal Zachary
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Date of Publication: 1994-11-17
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: Technology, Biography
Goodreads rating: 4.15
(rated by 1220 readers)

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Showstopper! is a vivid account of the creation of Microsoft Windows NT, perhaps the most complex software project ever undertaken. It is also a portrait of David Cutler, NT's brilliant and, at times, brutally aggressive chief architect. Cutler surely ranks as one of the most impressive software engineers the field has ever produced. After leading the team that created the VMS operating system for Digital's VAX computer line--an accomplishment that most would regard as a lifetime achievement--he went on to conceive and lead the grueling multi-year project that ultimately produced Windows NT. Both admired and feared by his team, Cutler would let nothing stand in the way of realizing his design and often clashed with his programmers, senior Microsoft management, and even Gates himself. Yet no matter how involved he became in managing his 100-programmer team, he continued to immerse himself in every technical detail of the project and write critical portions of the code himself. Showstopper! is also a fascinating look at programmer and managerial culture behind the Microsoft facade. The portraits of the men and women who created NT not only reveal the brilliance of their work but the crushing stress and the dislocating effects that new wealth had on their lives. For some team members, the NT project ultimately destroyed their marriages, friendships, and virtually every human relationship outside of work. Showstopper! also reveals the
 

Unveiling Windows NT's turbulent, groundbreaking journey.

If you're fascinated by tech history or love behind-the-scenes industry stories, "Show-Stopper!" is right up your alley. By diving into the creation of Windows NT, it offers an in-depth look at the challenges and triumphs of software development on a monumental scale, all set against the backdrop of the cutthroat tech industry in the early '90s. It's a gripping narrative that puts you in the rooms where computing history was made.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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