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When Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America first appeared in , it drew high praise for its exhaustive research and careful documentation.

Over the years this meticulously researched biography of Microsoft founder Bill Gates has become a bible of reference for academics, historians and technology buffs.

But it was only available in print form, although it was very briefly released in digital form -- on two floppy disks -- back when digital books were unheard of.

Now comes the Kindle version, the first e-dition in 20 years.

Authors Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews have updated "Gates" for Kindle, with a new afterword that examines the last two decades of the man and his company and offers a contrarian perspective on the canonization of Steve Jobs and Apple." Manes and Andrews contend that Gates was the true visionary, and Jobs the guy