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...soup kitchen in the second richest nation on Earth. The economy is shrinking, and the official unemployment rate has risen to 5%, highest in a generation. In recent weeks, the blue-chip stars of the country's manufacturing sector--the makers of computer chips, TVs and PCs, such as Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC--have announced that they will shed tens of thousands of jobs...
...combined company will rival IBM in size and revenue, and theoretically it will leapfrog Dell in sales of PCs and midrange servers, the machines that act as the Internet's traffic cops. What is in doubt is whether Fiorina can put this heft to good use--and avoid the impact of any further downturn in consumer spending--by selling information-technology services along with hardware to corporations at a healthy profit. It's the hottest area of IT right now and will be for some time...
...Street is skeptical because both companies have become so focused on making PCs--by now a commodity on the order of a television set--and looked so bruised after more than a year of recession in that industry, that this sudden embrace smacked of deathbed desperation. "This is not a case of 1+1=2," says Todd Kort, principal analyst for Wall Street's Gartner Research. "More like...
...dislike some other things too. The installation took an hour, and unlike previous upgrades, you actually have to sit there for most of it, answering questions. Also, you can install XP on only one machine. If you have other PCs, you will need to buy more copies. (Microsoft is coming up with a multiuser pack; pricing hasn't been announced...
...preview version of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, almost two months ago. And Ol' Sparky rarely seizes up now. Before XP, my computer tended to crash about three times a day, which is probably par for most hard-core users of Windows 95, 98 and ME. Most PCs crash as frequently as bumper cars. If Windows XP did nothing more than increase stability, I'd gladly pony up my $99 for an upgrade when it arrives in retail stores Oct. 25. Bad news for my checking account: Windows XP does more than make PCs stable...