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Showstopper! (The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    G. Pascal Zachary
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    338
    Publisher:
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (July 22, 2014)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9781497638839
    ISBN-10:
    1497638836
    Dimensions:
    5.25" x 8" x 0.8"
    File:
    Eloquence-IPG_07022026_P10280930_onix30_Complete-20260702.xml
    Folder:
    Eloquence
    List Price:
    $23.99
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    $20.63
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-IPG
    Discount Code:
    C
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Pub Discount:
    60
    Weight:
    14.24oz
    Imprint:
    Open Road Media
  • Overview

    This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine).

    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 David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft 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.