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...Dell and Apple are floundering; profits are plunging, margins squeezed. Last month one of the personal-computer industry's leading lights -- the pioneering Tandy Corp. -- became a prominent casualty. Faced with $52 million in losses in the past year and an even bloodier future, Tandy decided to abandon the PC business, which accounted for 10% of its sales last year. The company simply could not survive the intense price competition...
Despite his frail frame, Gates has plenty of muscle. The company he co- founded, Microsoft, accounts for nearly 40% of the PC software industry's revenues of $8 billion and commands 90% of the crucial market for system- control software. Microsoft's disk operating system, known as MS-DOS, is now installed on about 60 million IBM-compatible personal computers, or 75% of all the PCs in the world. Competitors claim Microsoft abuses its market power, but the company was cleared of all antitrust charges in a Federal Trade Commission probe in February. Last week a federal judge dismissed Apple...
With its announcement this week, Microsoft seeks to extend Windows beyond desktop personal computers to telephones, copiers, printers and fax machines. Since these markets dwarf the PC business, the company stands to collect enormous revenues by licensing its software design to office-equipment vendors that will make the new machines that run the Microsoft At Work system. The combined sales of copiers, printers, telephones and fax machines, for instance, topped $60 billion last year, in contrast to $38 billion for PCs. Analysts project that Microsoft could generate at least $200 million in royalties from those licenses by the year...
...Well boxing is not a very PC sport," Clarke begins. "It's a little too violent for Harvard's tastes, and so the University doesn't really like...
...TALK PERSONAL COMPUTERS AND YOU ARE TALKING microprocessors -- the tiny silicon chips that are the PC's "brains." Talk microprocessors and you are talking Intel. The company, based in Santa Clara, California, is the world's leading PC-brain maker. Part of Intel's success has been its ability to stay a step ahead of the chip manufacturers making cheaper versions of Intel's high- performance product line. One of these is Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), based in nearby Sunnyvale, which has just scored a coup in the constantly changing world of chip competition: a judge overturned a jury...