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...current tech recession these two companies have two things in common--a big stake in the PC business and a troubled future. That's why HP CEO Carly Fiorina brought them together last week in a stock deal initially valued by the companies at $25 billion. Fiorina, one of the most powerful women in American business, is a steely-nerved visionary who once compared her business to a game of blackjack. She has doubled the stakes on a so-so hand. If she wins, she wins...
...there, she could do worse than to follow in the footsteps of Lou Gerstner. The IBM chief inherited a company torn by turf wars and paralyzed by too many products in the early '90s. Gerstner healed wounds, cut the sprawl and scaled back the low-margin consumer-PC business, focusing instead on supremely stable high-end servers and the lucrative service contracts that came with them. "IBM is proof that it can be turned around," says Tony Paoni, professor of technology and e-commerce at Northwestern University's Kellogg School. "If I were Carly, my first call would...
...good news for the PC industry, which is hoping to find a way to resuscitate comatose sales. Last week Microsoft shipped its final code for XP to manufacturers, which are installing it on new machines that should be in stores soon. Whether you buy a new machine, upgrade your old one or do nothing at all depends on your own level of Windows discomfort...
Windows XP is really the first easy-to-use, built-from-scratch operating system for PC users. It narrows the ain't-computing-fun gap with the Macintosh platform. That's because Microsoft took a cue or two from Apple...
When was the last time your PC crashed? Not to gloat, but it hasn't happened to me for weeks. That's because I installed a preview version of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, almost two months ago. And Ol' Sparky rarely seizes up now. Before XP, my computer tended to crash about three times a day, which is probably par for most hard-core users of Windows 95, 98 and ME. Most PCs crash as frequently as bumper cars. If Windows XP did nothing more than increase stability, I'd gladly pony...