I do remember the story of one Microsoft programmer who spent weeks if not months struggling and working on the task of drawing a window on screen. Remember they did not have any Windows MFC APIs. They were writing the APIs.
The project got slowed down because Microsoft management allowed the Presentation Manager to be written in C++. Nobody on the team was familiar with the language and being the early 90s it was still immature. The 'rewrite it in Rust' of its time.
It's a book old enough that the concept of email has to be explained to the reader, as well as why Gates would spend so much time checking his email.
Lots of other fun stories from Larry's time on that team. I kind of regret not asking him about Cutler. Maybe next time!
[1] https://john-lam-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-9-larry-...
I worked with him at what turns out to have been towards the start of his time at Microsoft. Lots of great stories even then