{"product_id":"showstopper-the-breakneck-race-to-create-windows-nt-and-the-next-generation-at-microsoft-paperback","title":"Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eG. Pascal Zachary\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"inside account captures the energy--and the madness--of the software giant's race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping\" (\u003ci\u003eFortune\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShowstopper\u003c\/i\u003e is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of a New Machine\u003c\/i\u003e by Tracy Kidder, \u003ci\u003eShowstopper\u003c\/i\u003e gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eG. Pascal Zachary is a journalist, author, and teacher. He spent thirteen years as a senior writer for the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (1989 to 2001) and writes regularly for newspapers, magazines, and journals, including Salon, \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWilson Quarterly, Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e, and AlterNet. Zachary concentrates on African affairs. He also writes on globalization, America's role in world affairs, immigration, race and identity, and the dysfunctionalities and divisions in US society. \u003cbr\u003e Zachary teaches journalism at Stanford University. He has lectured on various campuses, including those of MIT, Caltech, Puget Sound, UC Berkeley, Connecticut, and Tufts. He is a fellow at the Institute for Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and a senior associate at the Nautilus Institute in San Francisco. Currently, he is writing a book on the political economy of sub-Saharan Africa and a memoir of his marriage to an African, the Igbo hair braider Chizo Okon. They live with their children in the San Francisco Bay Area. His personal website is www.gpascalzachary.com and he blogs at www.africaworksgpz.com. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 338\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 22, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47630210728189,"sku":"9781497638839","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/VU9EdnhMZHlUREpwa0h1SGtELzZFZz09.webp?v=1780340169","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/showstopper-the-breakneck-race-to-create-windows-nt-and-the-next-generation-at-microsoft-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}