BAD BOY BALLMER

In January 2000 Bill Gates gave his responsibilities and the title chief exec-utive officer of Microsoft to his best friend, Steve Ballmer, who had been at Gates's side almost since the company's earliest days. The news sent shock waves throughout the technology and computer worlds, making many people wonder about the man who was now entrusted with Bill Gates's baby.
The life of Steve Ballmer is an incredible story of tremendous ambition, genius, arrogance, and charisma, an up-by-the-bootstraps saga of how the only child of a up in suburban Michigan Swiss immigrant grew and became the fourth wealthiest American while working for someone else. Bad Boy Ballmer also reveals a man so arrogant that after the Department of Justice filed its antitrust suit against Microsoft, Ballmer stood onstage in San Jose and proclaimed "to hell with Janet Reno," a man so intense and aggressive that he once ripped his vocal cords by yelling too loudly.
In this enlightening biography--based on in-depth study and interviews with former Microsoft insiders--Fredric Alan Maxwell provides the complete, ontroversial narrative of one of the technology industry's most influential and talked-about figures. A balanced portrait, the book reveals the good boy Ballmer--the dedicated son schooled in Birmingham, Michigan, who once took three months off to care for his ailing parents--and the bad boy Ballmer--the ruthless usinessman who devised and led a scorched-earth policy against other software developers.
Bad Boy Ballmer is also the definitive story of the Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer relationship, from their 1974 meeting at a Harvard dorm to the present day. Providing fresh insights into the longstanding bond between this odd couple.

作者简介：
FREDRIC ALAN MAXWELL is a researcher and writer whose work has been published in Newsweek,The New Yorker, and Harper's. He divides his time between Seattle, Washington, Missoula,Montana, and south Florida.