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Microsoft Rising: ...and other tales of Silicon Valley

ISBN: 978-0-7695-0200-7
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340 pages
February 2000, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
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Preface.

PART 1: The Valley of the Kings: Inside the Computer Industry.

Chapter 1: Reversals of Fortune (EIC Message, Computer, August 1994).

Chapter 2: The Tombs of Tech (EIC Message, Computer, November 1994).

Chapter 3: Operating System Roulette (Binary Critic, Computer, February 1995).

Chapter 4: Silly Valley (Binary Critic, Computer, June 1995).

Chapter 5: A Monopoly Is Born (Binary Critic, Computer, August 1995).

Chapter 6: Ellison's Folly (Binary Critic, Computer, February 1996).

Chapter 7: How Hits Happen (Binary Critic, Computer, July 1997).

Chapter 8: The Techno Treadmill (Wired Wired World, IEEE Internet Computing, September--October 1997).

Chapter 9: The Rise of Strategy (Binary Critic, Computer, September 1997).

Chapter 10: The End of the Dream (Binary Critic, Computer, January 1998); (Cyber View, Scientific American, February 1998); (In the News, IEEE Software, January--February 1998).

PART 2: The Rise of the Internet.

Chapter 11: The Latest Dance Craze: Browsing (EIC Message, Computer, September 1994); (Binary Critic, Computer, April 1995).

Chapter 12: Rumble in Telecommunications (Binary Critic, Computer, May 1995).

Chapter 13: NetGain or NetLoss? (Binary Critic, Computer, July 1996).

Chapter 14: A Bad Dream (Binary Critic, Computer, November 1996).

Chapter 15: Revolution in Telecommunications (Wired Wired World, IEEE Internet Computing, May--June 1997).

Chapter 16: Everything Is Going IP (Wired Wired World, IEEE Internet Computing, November--December 1997).

Chapter 17: Who Owns the Internet? (Wired Wired World, IEEE Internet Computing, January--February 1998).

Chapter 18: The United Nations of Cyberspace (Wired Wired World, IEEE Internet Computing, March--April 1998).

Chapter 19: The Year I Shoot My TV (Binary Critic, Computer, January 1997).

Chapter 20: The Internet: From Here to Ubiquity (Internet Watch, Computer, October 1997).

PART 3: Street Rumble in Software City.

Chapter 21: The Dark Side of Objects (EIC Message, Computer, December 1994).

Chapter 22: The Big Software Chill (Binary Critic, Computer, March 1996); (Binary Critic, Computer, August 1996).

Chapter 23: Tiny Beans (Binary Critic, Computer, September 1996); (Binary Critic, Computer, March 1997); (Binary Critic, Computer, March 1998).

Chapter 24: The Trouble with Programmers (Binary Critic, Computer, April 1998); (Binary Critic, Computer, July 1998).

PART 4: When Radical Is Chic.

Chapter 25: Innovation and the Next Big Thing (EIC Message, Computer, October 1994).

Chapter 26: FutureBusiness (Binary Critic, Computer, November 1995).

Chapter 27: Learning Curves and Strategy (Binary Critic, Computer, December 1995); (Binary Critic, Computer, January 1996).

Chapter 28: The Limits of Innovation (Binary Critic, Computer, April 1996).

Chapter 29: The Borg (Binary Critic, Computer, May 1997).

PART 5: Techno-Society.

Chapter 30: The Age of Information (Binary Critic, Computer, September 1995); (Binary Critic, Computer, October 1995).

Chapter 31: Tribalism (Binary Critic, Computer, November 1997).

Chapter 32: Privacy (Technology News, Computer, June 1998); (Cyber View, Scientific American, November 1997).

Chapter 33: Technology and the Productivity Paradox (Binary Critic, Computer, May 1998).

EPILOGUE: What to Do About Microsoft (Binary Critic, Computer, September 1998).
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