Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - Softcover

Zachary, Pascal G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759285780 ISBN 13: 9780759285781

Publisher: e-reads.com, 2009

Synopsis

Showstopper! is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary Bruce Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Micropsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper! gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

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Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft Showstopper! is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary Bruce Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Micropsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing busine... Full description

Edition details

• Publisher: e-reads.com
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0759285780
• ISBN 13: 9780759285781
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336