Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

<DIV><B>This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (<I>Fortune</I> Magazine).</B><BR/><BR/><I>Showstopper</I> is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by <I>Wall Street Journal</I> 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.<BR/><BR/> Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize–winning book <I>The Soul of a New Machine</I> by Tracy Kidder, <I>Showstopper</I> 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.</DIV>