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

Daniel Ichbiah and Susan L. Knepper

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Summary

Daniel Ichbiah and Susan Knepper recount the development of Microsoft during the personal-computer industry's early growth. Their company history starts with Gates's path into programming and the beginnings of BASIC, then follows Microsoft's first year and its expansion as a software business. The account places the company within an industry of computer makers, programming languages, operating systems and application software.

  • SourceThe Making of Microsoft — licensed Crown Publishing Group record · 1993 revised edition, authors, ISBN 9781559582254; publisher description; contents Child Prodigy Turns Programmer p.1, BASIC Beginnings p.17, Microsoft's First Year p.28

Why read it Our view

Use the early-company account to study how Microsoft moved from programming work into a software business. The opening sections focus on the beginnings of BASIC and the company's first year.

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  • Bill GatesMicrosoft company history
    Ichbiah and Knepper examine Microsoft and Gates's role in building the company. The contents include BASIC Beginnings and Microsoft's First Year; this is a company-history connection, without implying Gates recommended it.
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