Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ample opportunity to prove his trust-busting mettle without taking on Microsoft in a long and costly battle that many legal scholars suspect he will have a tough time winning. Faced with the uneasy prospect of trying to prove consumer harm by a company that has helped make PCs better and cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory and go home. Unfortunately for all concerned (with the exception of Microsoft enemies like Netscape and Sun Microsystems, whose stock prices should rise...
...study by Media Metrix found that last year, while 18- to 24-year-olds spent an average of 1,377 minutes a month using their home PCs, the 55-plus generation was logged on 2,299 minutes. Now businesses are rushing to tap what appears to be a market with unlimited potential. Microsoft is spurring the boom by cosponsoring, with the American Association of Retired Persons, a series of 500 free seminars around the country to introduce some 50,000 people over age 50 to the brave new world of computers and the Internet. Once online, these "newbies" are expected...
...dinner parties given by top officials at the Great Hall of the People to bull sessions among young technocrat planners over cold Snowflake Beer in the cafes of Sanlitun, the conversation has shifted from how to control the Net to how to exploit it. "The government is betting that PCs and the Net can help competitiveness," says Thomas Lin, a Beijing-based product manager for Microsoft. "Now they want them on every desk...
...sleek, stripped-down machine, which grabs from the networks whatever programs and files it needs, has attracted early corporate adopters like Saab and Allied Signal. How wide a market it will reach with a price tag north of $700, however, remains to be seen, especially with bare-bones PCs available at the same price...
...While half a dozen other companies offered competing browsers, Mozilla and its successor, Netscape Navigator, quickly became the best way to get around the World Wide Web. It was to the Web what Windows is to PCs; both had an 85% market share...