THE MAKING OF THE GREATEST MICROSOFT

Starting with a turnover of
just $16, 005 in 1976, Microsoft, ‘the house that Windows built’, had clocked
up over $143 billion in revenues in 2020. It also became one of the very few
companies to cross the $1 trillion mark in market capitalization! It’s not
just the story of its main architects—bill Gates and Paul allen—but also of
people like Steve Ballmer and Satan Nadella, who have taken Microsoft into an
orbit of its own. This book affords us fascinating insights into how modern
businesses are built, sustained and scaled up, besides offering an analysis
of how different leaders lead the same organization in their own unique ways.
The book traces Microsoft’s eventful journey from its early fledgling days to
the current dominant status—its first major deal with IBM and the launching
of Windows and Office software, gaming gadgets, and making forays into other
computer products and services like cloud, mobile phones, computer hardware
and artificial intelligence, covering the entire gamut of information
Technology. This is a story that has no parallels.