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...mind-blowing surge of processing power to corporate worker bees as well as to Mom, Dad and the kids at home. Whereas bulky mainframes took up whole rooms, PCs sat on a desk. In 1981 IBM introduced its first model, which ran a disc-operating system developed by Microsoft. Three years later, Apple unveiled the far friendlier Macintosh. The competition has spurred improvements, although it has also vexed consumers who just want a computer that works--and does everything...
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...record shows, then watch them wherever. The 20GB Archos AV320 ($600) started the ball rolling, and the next heavy hitter could be RCA's RD2780 Lyra A/V Jukebox ($449), left, due in October. The heat is on as versions of a joint design by Intel and Microsoft, above, are slated to be produced and sold next year by Samsung, ViewSonic and others...
...recently as two years ago, it was easy to avoid the impact of most viruses and worms like Melissa and the infamous Love Bug by not using too many Microsoft products. Most of the known security flaws that spurred virus writers had to do with the way Outlook talked to Word or Excel. The greatest danger was having a Microsoft monoculture on your desktop. The digital equivalent of planting only one kind of potato in your fields, it practically invited pests to do their worst...
Companies from Amazon to Microsoft are mulling plans to enter the business. The reason: Jupiter Research estimates that revenue from online music will zoom from $80 million this year to $1.5 billion in 2008. That's just a sliver of today's $12 billion CD market, but it's a real business...