Wednesday, September 06, 2006

The World Has Changed Now

Clearly, the world has changed now – awesome gigabytes of storage space is available on the hard disk, floppies are extinct and replaced by a battle between Blu-ray & HDVDs, and life without the Internet is almost impossible! As for the companies, the pioneering IBM PC division spiralled into losses giving it up to Lenovo, Dell has seen sliding market confidence even trying set up new display outlets, Compaq got gobbled by Hewlett Packard, Microsoft is constantly attacked by open source aficionados & anti-trust cases and Steve Jobs is piggy backing on the iPod success to sell his Macs. But biggest change of all is the laptop that has been registering 100% growth, and slowly eating away the PC! Even PDAs & smartphones perform outrageously more functions than the 2.73 kg IBM 5150 could have ever dreamed of! The PC has come full circle and is back to a simple word & spreadsheet processing box of the 1980’s, just with more power. Here is paying tribute to the unknown, but vital faces that got it all together...

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