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Summary: Almost not worth slamming
Review: This book is such a tired pastiche of old ideas, cliches, and slavish technophilia -- at least to anyone who's been awake for the past decade -- that it's hardly worth slamming, except to deter other poor souls from being sucked into it.As another writer said, save your money and buy some O'Reilly books. (And I would add, some O'Reilly books on LINUX.) I'm going to wash my hands now.
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Summary: what is next? internet based for everything!
Review: This is another great book by Bill Gates. "The road ahead" explains why INTERNET will change our life. This book tells how to make the INTERNET useful to YOU. What are to follow? Everything will be "internet based"! INTERNET based design systems, internet based research systems, internet based decision making systems, ...
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Summary: The obvious, stated.
Review: This book does nothing more than state the obvious over and over again. 'Insightful' cannot be used to describe this book because a child of eight could easily deduce all the major points without any assistance. It is an exercise in the obvious. If you're looking for a back-door glimpse into Microsoft or the mind of Bill Gates, forget it. Your money is better spent on fortune tellers and mind readers.
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Summary: Insipid, Vapid, and Stupid
Review: What business ISN'T conducted "@ the speed of thought?" [sic] What business hasn't, ever, been conducted "@ the speed of thought?" This is just another attempt to portray the current business climate as somehow fundamentally different from business 2, 200, 2000, or 20,000 years ago. That, of course, is hogwash. Today's businessmen, Gates included, have a simple goal that they share with their ancestors of centuries ago: Give Me Your Money. You'll find more original ideas on the wall of a barroom commode.
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Summary: Buy Michael Dell's book instead
Review: The problem with Bill Gates is that there is simply nothing original or insightful in that empty head of his. ...in this book, he oversimplifies and tries to synthesize what other, more thoughtful thinkers on the subject of the future of business have already said. If you want to read a great business story and learn some tried-and-true, valuable strategies for managing in the information age, buy Michael Dell's book instead.
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Summary: I believe it is a worth reading book.
Review: I think that someone would find a lot between th e-lines that could be beneficial to his own business. This guy could at one time made people all over the world to speak one language, the microsoft language. Ayman Sabry
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Summary: Bill's Mein Kampf
Review: An extremely frightening read, especially the part about DNA - Digital Network Addiction. The idea of using an "entertaining" operating system to hook employees into longer hours and more work is truly the work of an evil genius. The revelation that Bill actually had a hand in putting Solitare into Windows (the first test of DNA), and has fostered both the Internet and a consumer-faced Windows to this end may be the evidence that a future war-crimes panel needs to justify a harsh punishment. The sordid details of his first sexual encounter with his current spouse is also, frankly, creepy
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Summary: Bill Gates Is a Genius!!!!
Review: Although I expected to hate this book as much as I hate Microsoft Office's "Mr. Paperclip" Digital Assistant, I was totally blown away by the useful and insightful suggestions that this book offers. For instance, on the subject of the "must-have's" for succeeding in e-commerce, Gates lists the following: 1) a computer, 2) Access to the Internet, 3) a Web site, 4) a sure-fire scheme. Now, while I consider myself a little more informed than the average cybernaut, I never really considered these issues in putting together my master plan for conquering the Internet. Of course, there are some parts where the book gets boring, but being a great storyteller in addition to being the finest business mind of our age, Gates quickly draws the reader back in by dropping in totally unrelated, but tasty bits of erotica. This being a family forum, I won't go into details, except to say that the bit involving the mouse pad and the shaving cream was worthy of the Marquis de Sade. Truly inspired! And if you don't go for that sort of thing, the book also includes some fine recipes for boiling your professional enemies in such a way that it looks like they did it to themselves. Uh, what's my point here? Well, I really think you should buy this book. In fact, buy as many copies as you can afford. Bill Gates is going to be president one of these days and when he gets into office, let's just say that he'll remember if you don't! Consider yourself warned.
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Summary: Something is missing
Review: The book provides a really interesting look at how to become a fully digital company. However, it does not address what seem to me to be central issues: How do I successfully compete in this new world? How do I ensure that my customers stay with me? The best complement to Gates' book that I have found is "HyperWars: 11 Strategies for Survival and Profit in the Era of Online Business" by Bruce Judson with Kate Kelley. Judson and Kelley go straight at all of the hard problems that Gates ignores.
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Summary: Follow the Leader, Boys & Girls !
Review: Don't waste your time being the anarchist,looking for a different OS or interfaces, use the 80/20 rule and get with the program. Being able to follow the 12 steps now, will get your company that much farther ahead of the competition. You will become a master of one interface. Companies are not going to learn yet another interface, every time it comes out, they would become, you know the cliche', jack of all interfaces!. Microsoft is here to stay.
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