"This is, in fact, one of the most important lessons for Microsoft to learn: great media is often created in a collaborative environment, but it cannot be done by committee - a painful fact Gates learned firsthand after seeing his book, The Road Ahead, almost universally panned for having been put through the corporate 'blander' and not sounding Gates's own authoritative, querulous voice."
—Denise Caruso, "Microsoft Morphs Into a Media Company, Wired, June, 1996