Mac or PC: Making the Big Switch
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- Mac or PC: Making the Big Switch
- Microsoft feels strain as PC market shifts
- Worm Infects Millions of Computers Worldwide
- AMD Posts Ninth Straight Loss as Computer rders Slow
Mac or PC: Making the Big Switch
PC Magazine
In those days you got text with a text graphics card and bare-bones color graphics with a CGA adapter and I thought it was the height of cool that I could play Microsoft Flight Simulator during downtime. I was so smitten with the new tech that when the ill-fated PCjr came out I almost convinced my parents to get us one. Soon after that my buddy John showed me an article in Creative Computing magazine about an upcoming computer called Macintosh from the company that produced our “ancient” Apple II computers. I didn’t think much about it since Apple was obviously yesterday’s news and the future of the PC was all in IBM’s hands. Apple II was a dying closed-off system while the IBM PC was the system that both businesses and consumers thought of when they thought of computers. Then I got a summer job at a local Computer Depot and consequently got some hands-on time with the Macintosh. The first-generation 128K Mac was underpowered to be sure but the new graphics interface sure beat having to type DS commands just to get to the word processor and modem terminal program.
Microsoft feels strain as PC market shifts
Chicago Tribune United States
-based company’s 34-year history. The layoffs of roughly 5000 workers which started Thursday in the wake of an 11 percent drop in fiscal second-quarter profit should not surprise anyone who has paid attention to the computing industry in recent years. Microsoft remains a powerful partner for computer-makers but the PC market is in the midst of a shift.
Worm Infects Millions of Computers Worldwide
New York Times United States
“If you’re looking for a digital Pearl Harbor we now have the Japanese ships steaming toward us on the horizon” said Rick Wesson chief executive of Support Intelligence a computer security consulting firm based in San Francisco. Many computer users may not notice that their machines have been infected and computer security researchers said they were waiting for the instructions to materialize to determine what impact the botnet will have on PC users. It might operate in the background using the infected computer to send spam or infect other computers or it might steal the PC user’s personal information. “I don’t know why people aren’t more afraid of these programs” said Merrick L. Furst a computer scientist at.
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AMD Posts Ninth Straight Loss as Computer rders Slow
Bloomberg
22 (Bloomberg) — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. thesecond-largest maker of personal-computer processors reportedits ninth consecutive loss after plummeting PC demand forcedcustomers to slash orders. The fourth-quarter net loss was $1. 34 ashare compared with a loss of $1.
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