G. Pascal Zachary Libri

This is the story of the Microsoft team's campaign to ensure the company's domination of the next generation of the computer revolution. Windows NT was the result of their adventure into new technology, which took five years hard work and $150 million to develop.

In this work, Gregg Zachary, the Wall Street Journal correspondent in London, looks to explain who the big economic winners and losers will be in the future, and provides a roadmap to the new civilization arising out of the sweeping shifts in the world economy. It also reveals that the determinants for success are national diversity and a mongrel sense of self.