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THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 4

By Lenore Bickerstaff · 4 parts · 15 h 1 min · English

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Redmond, Washington, 1988 to 2025. A team hired away from Digital Equipment begins a new operating system in an office park; a Canadian shareware programmer talks his way into the building and spends a decade writing the small parts of Windows that everybody touches and nobody notices — the task list, the compressed folder, the activation check. Thirty years later a company that built its fortune on never breaking anything stakes itself on software whose output cannot be guaranteed in advance. This is an account of what it takes to keep a machine running for a billion installations, told from inside the bug database and the shipping schedule, and of what happened when the discipline that made that possible met a technology that does not admit of it. Covers Dave Plummer, Kevin Scott, and Microsoft.

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  1. Part 01

    3:24:19

  2. Part 02

    3:31:06

  3. Part 03

    3:56:15

  4. Part 04

    4:09:07

Books in this series

  1. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 1

    4 parts · 17 h 19 min

  2. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 2

    4 parts · 15 h 36 min

  3. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 23 min

  4. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 1 min

  5. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 43 min

  6. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 6

    4 parts · 16 h 52 min