Yaacov: "Is the PC era over with? IBM, DELL, and CPQ and the rest! Maybe they have gone to where Sara Lee and Maytag have gone."
From everything I have read, the PC is not going away. However, it is changing. I don't think that Michael plays the Wall Steet games. He is just doing business as usual and for him, that means running a well-managed company.
Here are links to 2 articles that proclaim the PC is not going way. I maintain that PC's and handhelds will co-exist. I am still hanging in there. :)Leigh
cnet.com.
Intel VP: Long live the PC
Despite a bombardment of Internet appliances, Web tablets, wireless handheld computers and Internet-enabled cell phones, Microsoft and Intel executives have used the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here to mount a spirited defense of personal computers.
Intel senior vice president Pat Gelsinger today echoed earlier comments from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, using his keynote address to call reports of the PC's demise a "myth."
The role of the PC is changing, Gelsinger conceded, but it is in no way obsolete. He argued that the situation is quite the opposite, with high-end software such as Windows 2000 and new Web-based technologies such as broadband Internet access and digital music downloading gobbling more PC power than ever.
Gates: PCs will continue to reign
By Stephanie Miles
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
April 25, 2000, 10:50 a.m. PT
NEW ORLEANS--Microsoft chairman Bill Gates today attempted to convince hardware makers that in the age of Internet appliances and handheld devices, the PC is still king.
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