Bill Gates and the Microsoft Story

CSC 5
Hofstra University

Topic Outline
0. Introduction
1. The Microsoft Success: How and Why
2. The Anti-Trust Case
3. The Latest Ruling
4. The Future

Some Websites

Microsoft Museum: ww.microsoft.com/museum/default.mspx
Bill Gates homepage: www.microsoft.com/billgates/default.asp

"Bill Gates before Microsoft": http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html

Books

James Wallace, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire (Wiley, 1992)
James Wallace, Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace (Wiley, 1998)
John Heilemann, Pride before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era (NY, 2001).
Randall E. Stross, The Microsoft Way: The Real Story of How a Company Outsmarts Its Competition (1996)
Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews, Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an
Industry (1992)
Wendy Rohm, The Microsoft File: The Secret Case against Bill Gates (1998)