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COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING PC Teamwork Get your PC to do something useful in its spare time - like help find a cure for cancer. A collaborative effort by Oxford University, Intel and U.S. tech firm United Devices - billed as the largest computational chemistry project ever undertaken - will harness the unused power of millions of PCs around the world to screen molecules for cancer-fighting potential. You can enlist your PC and download the necessary software at www.ud.com...
...plan-and-a-prayer dotcom. Its workers helped write one of the great business success stories of modern times. Dell was founded in 1984 to sell computers without a middleman (Direct from Dell, the ads said). Its hyperefficient model helped it pass Compaq to become North America's largest PC manufacturer. Nor is Dell's good news all behind it. Just last Thursday, Dell almost single-handedly ran the Dow up 400 points when it confirmed that first-quarter profit estimates were on track. Last year the company earned $2.3 billion on sales of $32 billion...
First the good news. Both systems are phenomenally stable and virtually crash free (say goodbye to the blue screen of death, PC users! No more freeze-ups for Mac fans!). They're also much nicer to look at than their predecessors. OS X wins the beauty contest with translucent menus and more gee-whiz effects than a Hollywood blockbuster, but the new Windows has its share of cool colors and eye-candy icons...
...Windows XP is by far the worst offender. A few seconds after XP's installation, the tiny piece of software that controls my high-speed Internet connection went on strike. That meant no e-mail, no Web and lots of hyperventilation. I couldn't listen to music, since the PC no longer recognized the external hard drive where all my MP3s were stored. And some of my favorite games went berserk, apparently because my machine had fallen out with its own graphics card...
...long run, though, Palm's biggest threat may come from Microsoft, which makes the Pocket PC software platform for PDAs sold by Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard. "Microsoft has tremendously deep pockets, and it seems to stick to things until it gets them right," says Palm CEO Carl Yankowski...