BAD BOY BALLMER: The Man Who Rules Microsoft
Fredric Alan Maxwell, . . Morrow, $26.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-06-621014-8
Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen may be the most well-known rulers of the huge computer empire, but this latest offering attempts to show that the company's current CEO, the colorful and bombastic Steve Ballmer, an early Microsoft employee and friend of Gates's from their days at Harvard, is in fact the company's muscle. Unfortunately, this "biography" is little more than a re-hashing of Microsoft's already well-documented ruthless business practices, staggering financial success and endless legal travails. Seattle-based writer and researcher Maxwell, once profiled in the
Reviewed on: 08/12/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
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