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| Author | Marlin Eller, Jennifer Edstrom |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Computer Software Industry, Microsoft Corporation |
| Publisher | Henry Holt |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 0-8050-5754-4 |
| OCLC | 38527822 |
| 338.7/610053/0973 21 | |
| LC Class | HD9696.63.U64 M534 1998 |
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft from the Inside is a book that was jointly written by Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller, an American programmer who was a manager and a software developer at Microsoft Corporation from 1982 to 1995, and development lead for the Graphics Device Interface (GDI) of Windows 1.0 and also for Pen Windows. Written as a third-person account of Eller's experiences at Microsoft, it goes into detail about the early years of Microsoft and its emergence as a massive corporation.
Two chapters of the book deal specifically with the business contacts between Microsoft and GO Corporation. In April 2008, as part of a larger federal court case, the gesture features of the Windows/Tablet PC operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by GO Corp. concerning gesture interfaces in operating systems for portable computers.[1]