Can’t wait – PC/Computing magazine columnist Stephen Manes and Seattle Times high-tech writer Paul Andrews are writing Billion Dollar Bill: Gates and Microsoft and How They Grew, to be published by Doubleday sometime in 1992: the authors say the book will present the first comprehensive, in-depth examination of Gates and Microsoft’s revolutionary impact on the computer industry and society at large – they will follow Gates from his youth as a budding programming genius and entrepreneur to his current command of a global empire with more than 6,000 employees and annual sales of $1,400m – Bill Gates is the most influential person in the computer business, said Manes, now he’s aggressively promoting his vision of a rosy future dhat includes a much broader role for the computer; and co-author Andrews describes Gates as the Henry Ford of the computer industry.
