Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

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019. BillG the Manager

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019. BillG the Manager

“Intelli…what?”–Bill Gates

Steven Sinofsky
Apr 15, 2021
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019. BillG the Manager

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The breadth of the Microsoft product line and the rapid turnover of core technologies all but precluded BillG from micro-managing the company in spite of the perceptions and lore around that topic. In less than 10 years the technology base of the business changed from the 8-bit BASIC era to the 16-bit MS-DOS era and to now the tail end of the 16-bit Win…

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