Robbing the Xbox Vault: Inside a $10 Million Gift Card Cheat
A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme.
A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme.
Austin Carr Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2021 Permalink
It was Hell.
Kashmir Hill Gizmodo Feb 2019 20min Permalink
The anti-trust saga of Microsoft and Netscape.
Victor Luckerson The Ringer May 2018 30min Permalink
A gang of teen hackers snatched the keys to Microsoft’s videogame empire. Then they went too far.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Apr 2018 35min Permalink
The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.
John Heilemann Wired Nov 2000 3h10min Permalink
The story of a lead squandered.
Kurt Eichenwald Vanity Fair Aug 2012 30min Permalink
When computer science legend Jim Gray disappeared, his friends and colleagues – including Bill Gates and Larry Ellison – used every technological tool at their disposal to try to find him.
Steve Silberman Wired Jul 2007 30min Permalink
The definitive story of a ubiquitous software. PowerPoint’s origins, its evolution, and its mind-boggling impact on corporate culture.
Ian Parker New Yorker May 2001 20min Permalink
Tackling the science of cooking, one perfect french fry at a time.
Mark McClusky Wired Mar 2011 20min Permalink
An early attempt to explain the world-changing power of computer software—and the minds of young programmers like Bill Gates—to a mass audience. “Software,” the article begins, “is the magic carpet to the future.”
Michael Moritz, Peter Stoler Time Apr 1984 Permalink