This recording, the third based on Gates's best-selling
book (the original abridgment was reviewed in Audio
Reviews, LJ 1/96; the unabridged edition was reviewed
in Audio Reviews, LJ 8/96), has been updated to
include Gates's?and by extension, MicrosoftR's?
sudden realization that the Internet is the Holy Grail
of computing. Having been beaten to the punch
by Netscape Communications (whose ubiquitous
World Wide Web browsers own anywhere from 70
to 90 percent of the market), Gates finds himself
playing catch-up. Here, he lays out MicrosoftR's
internet strategies and outlines a brief history of
the Internet's meteoric rise in popularity. Thankfully
, after reading the new and revised passages, our
nerdy-voiced host hands the ball off to reader Rick
Adamson, who seems much more comfortable in
front of a microphone. Recommended for libraries
that passed on the previous two audio incarnations
of The Road Ahead and for larger collections where
in popular technology materials circulate well.?Mark
Annichiarico, "Library Journal"
book (the original abridgment was reviewed in Audio
Reviews, LJ 1/96; the unabridged edition was reviewed
in Audio Reviews, LJ 8/96), has been updated to
include Gates's?and by extension, MicrosoftR's?
sudden realization that the Internet is the Holy Grail
of computing. Having been beaten to the punch
by Netscape Communications (whose ubiquitous
World Wide Web browsers own anywhere from 70
to 90 percent of the market), Gates finds himself
playing catch-up. Here, he lays out MicrosoftR's
internet strategies and outlines a brief history of
the Internet's meteoric rise in popularity. Thankfully
, after reading the new and revised passages, our
nerdy-voiced host hands the ball off to reader Rick
Adamson, who seems much more comfortable in
front of a microphone. Recommended for libraries
that passed on the previous two audio incarnations
of The Road Ahead and for larger collections where
in popular technology materials circulate well.?Mark
Annichiarico, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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