It's a long and boring advertisement of Microsoft. The main idea is:"If we look around we will find a lot of guys who have money but still don't spend it on our software. There are companies where all the processes can be improved with computers, and there are medical care system, and there are schools and universities, and armed forces, and governments of all levels, and all of them badly need different improvements. Humanity demands more computers to develop economics. And here we are: more co...

Couldn't finish it... every page was an ad for a Micro$oft product -- yuck!

It was little boring for me, but if you are a business person and if you are interested about how technology improved then the book is really good.

I bought this book back when it came out around 99-00, but completely forgot about it. I found it while cleaning part of my house. The book is aimed at business managers and high-level executives and tries to push the idea of a digital office environment. What's funny is reading the author's (Bill Gates) predictions for the future of technology in the coming years, he is quite accurate for the most part, but also far off on a few.

Bill Gates and Microsoft were at the height of their power when this book was released, so as an avid DOS, Windows and PC user, I was certainly intrigued. It has been 15 years now since I read the book, so can hardly remember anything, but I do remember thinking at the time that it was OK. Not spectacular and not horrible either but a good read. The use of @ in the title is certainly antiquated by today's standards but that was the trend of the day back then.

This book is an elaborate advertisement for Microsoft. It shows us how to manage, gather and use the available resources or information in the most efficient way possible. It shows us: 1. How not to take the current position in the market as a favor or a grant.2. How manufacturers will differentiate themselves in the market and sell their products. How to quickly improve productivity. Furthermore, it also tells us how to improve inventory management most efficiently.3. Meetings should not be use...

If you are a business person and would like to know how technology, specially computer and internet, can change and improve your business, you definitely need to read this book. Please don't think that this book will teach you stuff about computers because Bill Gates wrote it. This is not the case. This book teaches you how you can use computer and internet to save costs, improve performance, share knowledge and increase your sales and business operation. Reading this book in this era of compute...

Coming from Bill Gates, I didn’t find this book an interesting read. I tried picking it several times but it always bored me until one day I decided to pick it up and finish it. There are two problems with the book. First instead of instances, there is more of the philosophy of Bill Gates and second, the stories of Jobs and gates have already flooded the internet, start-up office and friend conversations that you feel you already know so much about them that reading a book feels like reading a d...

At the dawn of the Internet, this book... mentions it not at all. Whoever wrote this for him was a blind cave-fish.

It doesn't seem to me the Oracle of Delphi, as many readers depicted it. Jules Verne was a visionary, Bill Gates is a successful entrepreneur with limited writing skills that wrote a book (how much did he himself actually write?) about the following 10 years. I sincerely don't think it was so hard to predict such span. Moreover, there's a hell of a banal material, like he ran out of arguments but he needed to get his 500 pages so he just filled them up with any trivial expression that crossed hi...

Did you know that the first product Sony created was a rice cooker ? This book had the answer and reading this book helped me win a quiz competition years ago. This book is definitely NOT for tech community. I definitely don't like Microsoft products just because they dont have a soul. They have failed miserably in positioning their company ( which Apple successfully did ) , but take nothing away from this genius , Bill Gates. His passion is very apparent in the book - which makes it worthwhile

Words from the Messiah on business Microsoft & making money from a can do guy. Imagine him running a country. The man they had to make step down as CEO of Microsoft or he probably would be running the country.

Although this book was written twenty years ago, it still hold many redeemable qualities. Obviously, the technology discussions are tremendously outdated (even 10 years ago this was the case). That being said, Gates’s grasp of technology and his forward-thinking mind still shines through. Some takeaways:1). Change NEVER stops and continues to evolve. If you are keeping an eye on new trends, then you will be hopelessly behind, especially in business. 2). NEVER stop learning. He holds in high rega...

Book 12/21 for 2021.Similar to the Attack of the Clones novelization, I bought this book some time ago and have only now got around to reading it! I read AOTC just before this book - and like that - it subverted my expectations in a lot of ways.This book was written by Bill Gates and co in 1999, and so I have two caveats you should consider. If I was in 1999 reading this, it would possibly be the most brilliant book I'd ever read. It combines business, economics, computer science and tech to exa...

Amazing book about the future of technology in the next few decades looking ahead from the year 1999.1. Businesses need to develop its own digital nervous system, without which it wont succeed2. Talks about a lot of innovations now which we take for granted such as email, word processing, excel, databases, internet servers, which we take for granted and don’t even think about.3. Talks about applications of computers in businesses, schools, medicine, government, all of which has come true.4. Some...

This is Gate's second book, four years after "The Road Ahead..."Like that book, it's an exercise in vision-casting, though it's directed to business leaders and how the internet is going to change business. Each chapter covers a different aspect of business, and ends with a checklist of major points, and questions to ask yourself about your business environment.This didn't seem as revolutionary as "The Road Ahead" and I'm not sure why. I think it was just more obvious how the business aspects of...

This book is twenty years old and therefore reads a little dated when it comes to the wonders of the internet and the benefits that the coming digital age will bring. Still, Gates treats several areas where Information Technology can disrupt and improve, and it’s telling that most of his predictions have come true.Maybe read as a historical text, to provide some context and get a better understanding of where we’ve come from these past two decades.