Research Catalog

Title

Renegades of the empire : how three software warriors started a revolution behind the walls of fortress Microsoft / Michael Drummond.

Author

Drummond, Michael, 1964-

Publication

New York : Crown Publishers, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Microsoft Corporation.

Description

xv, 297 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Competing in the high-tech computer market is a lot like war - especially if you work at Microsoft. Bill Gates's gladiators - his engineers and evangelists and programmers - were famous for seizing new terrain, converting nonbelievers, and always winning, no matter what the cost. No one took the lessons of the Microsoft way more to heart than Craig Eisler, Eric Engstrom, and Alex St. John, a trio of evangelists and software engineers who, more than anything, wanted to conquer a market on their own.".
• "Their first attempt was a top-secret effort to make Windows do what it had never done before: play games. Turning their well-honed combat skills on their own company, the trio - often called the "Beastie Boys" - rammed DirectX, their game project, through, first without permission, then without regard for political correctness, protocol, or budget restraints.
• The battle spilled from the halls of Microsoft into the international gaming community, but within months, DirectX was being used in every one of the best-selling games for the PC.".
• "The "Beastie Boys" had won the battle, but they received so few rewards that they felt as if they'd lost the war. So they set their sights on the Internet. Their new project: Chrome, a Web browser that could bring television-quality animated graphics to the Internet. It was every Microsoft marketer's dream, every competitor's nightmare. It should have changed the Internet and the lives of millions, none more than those of the three designers.".
• "Michael Drummond gained exclusive access to this trio's story - the tale of a rise, a fall, and, perhaps, a triumph."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• St. John, Alex, 1967-
• Businessmen > United States > Biography
• Eisler, Craig
• Computer software industry > United States
• Engstrom, Eric, 1965-

Note

• Includes index.

ISBN

0609604163 (hc.)

LCCN

99034657

OCLC

• 41445866
• ocm41445866
• SCSB-3869106

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries