[Am-info] Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Now Runs Microsoft

[Fred A. Miller]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

'Just may have to buy this one.

Fred

"In this revealing biography -- based on in-depth study and interviews with
Microsoft insiders -- Fredric Alan Maxwell provides the complete,
controversial narrative of one of the technology industry's most influential,
talked-about figures: Steven Anthony Ballmer, the awkward Detroit Country Day
School valedictorian who rose to become Microsoft's president, and in the past
two years, its CEO. Together with Bill Gates, Ballmer leads the company he and
Gates took from less than 30 employees to some 50,000, and annual revenues
from $12 million to more than $20 billion and rising. A balanced portrait,
this book reveals the good boy Ballmer -- the dedicated son who once took
three months off to care for his ailing parents, and the bad boy Ballmer --
the ruthless businessman who at the same time devised and led a scorched earth
policy against other software developers, a policy that earned him the
nickname "The Em-balmer."

<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0066210143/ref%3Dnosim/catportscom-20/002-7237619-5700016>

- --
Fred A. Miller
Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
fm@cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org
- --- SuSE Linux v8.0 Pro, KMail 1.4.3---
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAj2Vy5EACgkQB9vk4ichYXeosACbBY+XJhYMJxyPihuop+yQzS1G
xjQAoLuruIQfcXReSn63ks6bcQWZd7t3
=eUIN
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----