218. Announcing: Hardcore Software, the Print Edition
Due to reader demand...
Hardcore Software is now available in the following formats:
Hardcover print book on Amazon featuring over 900 pages including an index, bibliography, and more ($, ships July 1). International (non-US) orders available direct from the publisher here.
Start reading the eBook immediately on Kindle and Apple Books and many eBook stores worldwide (EPub and PDF, $)
Audio series narrated by me available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack, and RSS and Amazon/Audible ($)
And this original on Substack including a treasure trove of artifacts, photos, images, news clippings, and memos
There’s even a collection of archived videos on YouTube
Announcing Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution print edition. Many have asked for a shelf-worthy format, so I’ve done a full edit and created one.
It’s 100+ sections, 15 chapters, 918 pages of stories, adventures, ups & downs of what I experienced working on developer tools, Office, Windows, and across the company. ($)
Preorder today! The hardcover/letter-sized edition is offered at cost and includes an index, a bibliography of books/magazines, and more. https://a.co/d/ct7ZXN2
A small number of copies available as grants if you're a new US grad in comp sci still job hunting. (DMs open).
Also available, is the eBook version on most major eBook platforms. The eBook is available immediately. https://a.co/d/c6aXY0c
(Any net proceeds used to support professional contributions and US-based 501c(3) non-political organizations.)
There's also a complete audiobook which references the free web version for images, articles, PDFs, and more available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Substack, and via RSS.
Shout out to @SubstackInc for being an incredible partner and perfect way to publish, and to the community joining in weekly.
The revised serialized version complete with a curated trove of artifacts and it's FREE! hardcoresoftware.substack.com
Don’t trust me. Here’s insider
sharing his thoughts on https://www.thurrott.com/microsoft/300790/review-hardcore-software-by-steven-sinofsky“…an insider’s account of the events that drove Windows and the PC first to prominence and then to their inevitable downward slide. If you care about this history as much as I do, you should read it immediately.”
“…Sinofsky was either in the room for, or a key player in, many of the events he describes in the book. And his analysis of these events in the context of history is what makes the book so rewarding, even when I disagree with him.”
“Indeed, it’s so rewarding that I’ve already re-read several sections of Hardcore Software repeatedly. This is rare. The last book to have this effect on me was Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, and for the same reasons. Both books describe major milestones in a personal computing history that I’m heavily invested in and am quite knowledgeable about, and yet both also provide unique views and information about those events, deepening and expanding my understanding of them. I feel like I learn something new each time.”
Author's note: The new printed book (and eBook and Substack) has undergone a copyedit since this review was published.
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