Despite these successes, three decades after its founding and 22 years after it introduced the Macintosh, Apple remains the underdog in a personal computer world dominated by Microsoft.
Despite these successes, three decades after its founding and 22 years after it introduced the Macintosh, Apple remains the underdog in a personal computer world dominated by Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
The agreement between the world's largest personal computer company and Google, comes after the two firms announced in February that they were in talks about installing Google's software on Dell computers.
Lenovo, the world's fourth-largest personal computer maker, has unveiled a third straight quarterly profit.
U.S.-based Compaq, the world's No. 1 personal computer maker, says it will slash prices up to 20% every quarter as it launches new products.
That's when the world's second-largest personal computer manufacturer, Dell, out to challenge Apple's "cool" factor, announced it was dropping its 800 ad agencies for one contract with WPP.
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That's when the world's second-largest personal computer manufacturer, Dell, out to challenge Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s "cool" factor, announced it was dropping its 800 ad agencies for one contract with WPP.
The world's second-largest personal computer maker reported that unit shipment growth surged 22.0% in the quarter, despite the fact that the company has seen a slowdown in corporate tech spending, which it forecast will last through the summer.
That's a historic shift, and is just one of many signals that the personal computer is no longer dominant in the ever-shifting world of consumer technology.
Gates and Jobs both came out of the world of hobbyists and tech enthusiasts who invented the personal computer.
This belief is partly a gut reaction to the tight grip of Microsoft and Intel, the world's top chip maker, on the personal-computer market.
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