Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft say it's not a monopoly when its software operates 9 out of 10 of the world's PCs? Because it considers nearly every high-tech company--including behemoths like Intel, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and AT&T--to be a direct rival. The company has become increasingly concerned about the breakneck speed at which those companies are forming alliances. America Online is buying Netscape, At Home is buying Excite, Lucent is acquiring Ascend Communications--all deals worked out since the start of the antitrust trial. "This is a yeasty industry," says Microsoft general counsel William Neukom. "It's important...
Microsoft's most intriguing argument is that the industry model it dominates--PCs that run on their own operating-system software--is in peril. "When you think of competition, you have to get out of the mind-set that this is a PC-centered world," says Neukom. In the near future, Microsoft argues, computers may run on free, open-source software, or may use the Internet as a platform for running applications like word processing and e-mail, making Windows obsolete. In Microsoft's view, its dominant market position is just one paradigm shift away from being undone...
...years half of all workers who type on computers will complain of some form of RSI, from numb fingers to inflamed wrists. In fact, I decided to try out Naturally-Speaking Mobile because of Dragon Systems Inc.'s history of making great voice-recognition software, NaturallySpeaking Preferred, for PCs. I've known lots of reporters with burned-out wrists who now dictate their stories and who swear by Dragon's products...
What's Next, Free PCs...
...Compaq Presario with a 333-MHz Cyrix chip, for example, for just $560 (monitor sold separately). Earlier this month, Packard Bell NEC unveiled a $500 machine powered by a 300-MHz chip. Once a novelty used by upstart vendors trying to get the edge on market leaders, inexpensive PCs are becoming the norm, with average retail prices hovering around...