VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF BAD ART Backyard Computing, 73 Parker Rd., Needham, MA 02194, (617) 444-6757, lsacco@world.std.com, $19.95
You've probably never set foot inside the Museum of Bad Art, possibly because it doesn't exist.
- by Edmund X. DeJesus
MICROSOFT SECRETS: HOW THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SOFTWARE COMPANY CREATES TECHNOLOGY, SHAPES MARKETS, AND MANAGES PEOPLE by Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby, The Free Press, ISBN 0-02-874048-3, $28
Microsoft Secrets is just like one of Microsoft's own software
applications: It tries to say everything there is about its subject, it's full of interesting ideas implemented with varying degrees of success, and it's so big that it sometimes gets in its own way.
- by Russell Kay
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