| Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft from the Inside | |
| Author: | Marlin Eller, Jennifer Edstrom |
| Country: | United States |
| Subject: | Computer Software Industry, Microsoft Corporation |
| Publisher: | Henry Holt |
| Release Date: | 1998 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Isbn: | 0-8050-5754-4 |
| Dewey: | 338.7/610053/0973 21 |
| Congress: | HD9696.63.U64 M534 1998 |
| Oclc: | 38527822 |
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft from the Inside is a book that was jointly written by Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller, an American programmer who was a manager and a software developer at Microsoft Corporation from 1982 to 1995, and development lead for the Graphics Device Interface (GDI) of Windows 1.0 and also for Pen Windows. Written as a third-person account of Eller's experiences at Microsoft, it goes into detail about the early years of Microsoft and its emergence as a massive corporation.
Two chapters of the book deal specifically with the business contacts between Microsoft and GO Corporation. In April 2008, as part of a larger federal court case, the gesture features of the Windows/Tablet PC operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by GO Corp. concerning gesture interfaces in operating systems for portable computers.