Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress Microsoft - Hardcover
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Tells the story of three engineers who developed DirectX, videogame code, without the approval of Microsoft
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Inside the Microsoft 'mothership' anarchy ruled... Three techie geniuses - dubbed 'The Beastie Boys' - were on a high risk mission to transform the world-leading Windows software. Thanks to their efforts the PC became a hotshot games machine - another coup for Bill Gates to crow about. But their tactics were almost suicidal, as Renegades of the Empire entertainingly reveals. The trio showed open contempt for their employers, including the executives who tried to rein them in. They spent enormous amounts on lavish presentations with fireworks, debauchery and daring pranks. They even publicly scorned the revered Windows software system in front of cheering trade press writers, winning around a hitherto sceptical industry. What happened to Eisler, Engstrom and St John paints a vivid picture of Microsoft - and the madness of a business obsessed with meteoric growth. As the three embarked on an equally ambitious project to revolutionise the Internet, internal backbiting and stress began to take their toll. Chrome Plating a Harley-Davidson, complete with a flame-throwing exhaust, was a stunt too far. Michael Drummond gained exclusive access to this trio's story. In Renegades of the Empire he gives us the most revealing glimpse yet into the world's most successful company.
About the Author
Michael Drummond is a technology business writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune and has won many national and regional journalism awards, including the Investigating Reporters and Editors Award and the Best of the West competition. He lives in San Diego.
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- PublisherCrown Pub
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0609604163
- ISBN 13 9780609604168
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages297
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