I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier

When you strip away the luster, novelty, and excitement surrounding the newest generation of computer software - multimedia software on CD-ROM - you find a world not of high-tech efficiency but of simple human muddling. This is what Fred Moody discovered when he spent more than a year shadowing a team of Microsoft developers working in the epicenter of the multimedia explosion - on a children's compact disc to be called Explorapedia.