No work of this scope is without controversy. The most significant criticism centers on Chapter 9, where Isaacson initially assigned virtually all credit for Microsoft's early innovations to Bill Gates. As the Wikipedia entry notes, "Isaacson—who in researching the book interviewed Bill Gates but not Paul Allen—had assigned virtually all credit for the company's early innovations and success to Gates, when in fact they were the product of highly collaborative efforts by several people, including Allen". The revised electronic edition corrected this oversight, incorporating archival material where Gates credited Allen as "the idea man".

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