Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive Emails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant

Analysing one of American corporate history’s greatest mysteries — the lost decade of Microsoft — two-time George Polk Award winner Kurt Eichenwald traces the astonishingly foolish management decisions at the company that could serve as a business-school case study on the pitfalls of success. Relying on dozens of interviews and internal corporate records—including e-mails between executives at the company’s highest ranks — Eichenwald offers an unprecedented view of life inside Microsoft during the reign of its current chief executive, Steve Ballmer. Today, a single Apple product — the iPhone — generates more revenue than all of Microsoft’s wares combined — via Vanity Fair