Are PCs Committing Suicide? The Windows 8 Buyer Reactions When we use the term “Personal Computer”, we are generally talking about machines that can trace their ancestry to the original IBM 5150 PC, the computer architecture that brought computing to the masses. Introduced in 1981, the 5150 architecture, along with the Microsoft PC-DOS operating system, became the standard upon which the modern computer industry is based. Arguably, the Microsoft operating system and the Microsoft Windows OS’s which followed had more influence on computers becoming a part of our everyday life than the hardware it ran on. There are voices in
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Can Cloud Computing Be Bad For Microsoft? Microsoft and Cloud Computing share a strange relationship. On one hand, Cloud Computing threatens Microsoft’s dominance in the personal computing space through its Windows OS and Office suite; on the other hand, Microsoft accepts the inevitable progress of Cloud Computing and is investing considerable resources in that space – some may even argue, a bit too much (See: Is Microsoft Taking A Risk By Putting All Its Eggs In The Cloud Computing Basket?). Now, analysts have started asking questions whether cloud computing can be bad for Microsoft’s bottom line. According to Goldman Sachs
