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Review title: Boring book; rehashed cold potatoes
Product review: According to Ms. Goldman, when the then-single Bill Gates went out with a single woman, it was a "liaison" not a date. And so it goes. The normal and the commonplace are hyped to seem like the secret and the mysterious. I learned nothing from this book. Unlike Pam Edstrom's book, "Barbarians at the Gate" which has some real "insider" insights, this is a pretentious, boring book that rehashes well-documented old stories about Microsoft and its competitors(a huge amount of space is devoted to how Lotus was sold to IBM, for example). What has not been told before was simply made up. A titillating title, but "where's the beef?"
