Per Wikipedia: After the book was written, but before it hit bookstores, Gates recognized that the Internet was gaining the critical mass needed to drive it to

Per Wikipedia: After the book was written, but before it hit bookstores, Gates recognized that the Internet was gaining the critical mass needed to drive it to dominance, and on December 7, 1995 — just weeks after the release of the book — he redirected Microsoft to become an Internet-focused company. Then he and coauthor Rinearson spent several months revising the book, making it 20,000 words longer and focused on the Internet. The revised edition was published in October 1996 as a trade paperback. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead