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Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace

James Wallace

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Summary

James Wallace examines Bill Gates and Microsoft as the company faces competitors, antitrust scrutiny and the rise of the internet. The account combines Gates’s business ambitions with Microsoft’s efforts to defend its position in the software industry. Its chapters address the road ahead for the company, the trustbusters and its response to the internet.

  • SourceGoogle Books: Overdrive, Wiley licensed record · Contents: The Road Ahead, The Trustbuster, Internet 101; bibliographic details and author biography

Why read it Our view

Read this to examine how an established software company reacts to competition, a new technology and legal scrutiny at the same time. The account offers questions about the demands that success places on strategy.

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  • Bill GatesBiography subject
    Wallace examines Gates and Microsoft’s competition, antitrust scrutiny and internet strategy.
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