Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People audiobook runs 18.1 hours unabridged, narrated by David Drummond (about 12.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 18.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 37 days |
| 1 hour / day | 19 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 13 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 18.1 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by David Drummond
David Drummond narrates 142 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,696 hours in all.
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About as long, on the World shelf
455 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People is an audiobook by Richard W. Selby and Michael A. Cusumano: a 18.1-hour unabridged recording, read by David Drummond, released February 9, 2016, on the World and Business & Career Development shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 18.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- David Drummond
- Released
- February 9, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Business & Career Development, Computers & Technology
- ISBN
- 9781504673990
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People audiobook?
Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People runs 18.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.1 hours.
Is the Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People audiobook free?
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Who narrates Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People?
Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People is narrated by David Drummond.
Is Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.1 hours, saving 6 hours.