In 2004, personal computer industry pioneer IBM decided to exit the PC business.
That likely meant adopting a more modular approach to development--something the personal computer industry had honed.
Gates' own source of lucre, the personal computer industry, worked that way, too.
Suddenly, the personal computer industry may have a big problem: Steve Jobs.
Companies that make machines to sequence DNA like to compare themselves to the personal computer industry in its early days.
The classic example of this occurring happened in the personal computer industry.
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The global slowdown in the personal-computer industry has taken a toll on expected earnings for Seoul Composite Index stocks, says the Peregrine analyst.
Such a move would mark yet another break in the decades long partnership between Intel and Microsoft that has dominated the personal computer industry.
To a jaded eye, the personal computer industry sometimes seems simple.
Taiwan, with its personal-computer industry, is relatively protected from the crisis.
Had Apple licensed its brilliant operating system in the 1980s, it might have been Apple and not Microsoft that became the colossus of the personal-computer industry.
Dell's decision to go private is a reflection of the tough times facing the personal computer industry as more technology spending flows toward smartphones and tablet computers.
But Microsoft argues that the release of the new version of Windows is critical not only to the company but to a personal computer industry seeing one of the worst downturns in its history.
Sculley expresses regret over how the incident a boardroom battle between the two men over marketing strategy developed into one of the defining moments in the history of the personal computer industry.
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The battle between local storage and shared storage has a long history, back to the very beginnings of the personal computer industry, when small computers with local storage began to replace dumb terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers.
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The slides attempted to graphically depict the effect the non-settling states proposed remedy would have on Microsoft and what he likes to call the "PC ecosystem, " broadly defined as all of the companies involved in some way with the personal computer industry.
Lou Gerstner , who managed, after 15 years, to get IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people) back in personal computer just as the industry is going out.
Po Chi Chen: People regard the personal computer as a symbol of our it industry and are afraid because manufacturers have moved plants to China.
The development of the Personal Computer (PC) in the 1980s, for instance, created a new industry that grew exponentially for more than fifteen years, rewarding major players like Microsoft and Intel.
In 1979, noting the growing personal-computer business, he launched an independent trade show in Las Vegas, to bring together the industry.
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