Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should a corporation shell out $50 Per Computer for a copy of Netscape when IE comes preloaded on the PCs they purchase...
Upon returning from break, I began investigating PDA-type options, including the Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 and the new handled PCs that run a light version of Windows 95 dubbed Windows CE. These WinCE machines cost about $1,000 and run "pocket" versions of popular Microsoft software such as Word and Schedule...
...global provider of everything from handheld computers to the monster machines that power corporate networks and the Internet. The buyout creates a behemoth with $37 billion in revenues that trails only the $78 billion IBM. "In the early '80s, if we had thought of one day displacing IBM in PCs and rivaling it in size overall, we would have made good candidates for the loony bin," says Compaq chairman Ben Rosen...
...German-born Pfeiffer replaced ousted co-founder Rod Canion in 1991, a year in which price wars and a slumping economy cut Compaq's sales 10%, to $3.2 billion. Pfeiffer applied American management techniques, slashing payrolls and streamlining manufacturing. He used the savings to launch lines of lower-priced PCs. In '96 he led the company into high-margin, big-iron computing, buying Tandem Computer for $3 billion. Tandem's machines process everything from stock trades to credit-card transactions...
Digital completes a strategic triangle. It produces such high-margin items as the servers that link thousands of PCs on the Net, but its support staff serves such blue-chip customers as Citicorp and Lockheed Martin. Digital will smooth Compaq's path into the corporate computing world coveted by Pfeiffer. "Services open the door for hardware," says Digital chairman Robert Palmer...