The History of The Personal Computer The personal computer, better known as the PC, is a tool that has revolutionalized the way business" and individuals interact, communicate, and live their everyday lives. ... However, computers have not always been this way. ... This gave the user of the computer a program to help them run their system, but the CP/M was not guaranteed for files to be compatible to be shared with other computers. ... Up to this point the computer had caught many people's attention, but it was two major events in 1981 that took the computer into its popularity b...

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The competition in the computer industry has forced its own economic evolution through leadership, innovation, desire of wealth, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to be number one at the end of the day. ... "(207) This worked for a long time throughout history, but by no means would it generate the dividends provided by the new leadership. ... With personal computers as a fledgling new industry, there were much fewer people to choose from with the talent required for the creation of computer software and hardware. ... Microsoft rounded out the talent pool working to create a progr...

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Modern information technology is one of the most distinguished and interesting human inventions in history. ... Throughout human history education has been one of the most important social contributions. ... After the modem's introduction into the computer field, there were great improvements in peoples" accessibility to the use of computer technology. ... When computers eventually become compact enough, people began to refer to them as personal computers(PCs). ... The beauty of computers is that they can be used as training terminals to facilitate learning about the use of computers the...

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After three decades of use, the UNIX computer operating system from Bell Labs is still regarded as one of the most powerful, versatile, and flexible operating systems (OS) in the computer world. ... While initially meant for medium-sized computers, the system was soon moved to larger, more powerful mainframe computers. ... If you ask the computer to list (ls) all the files in a directory, the kernel tells the computer to read all the files in that directory from the disk and display them on your screen. ... Computers were no longer monolithic number crunchers that could only be used by meg...

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Microsoft is an American multinational computer technology corporation founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... (History of Microsoft, n.d) Its head quarter is located in Redmond, Washington, United State of American. The starting of Microsoft Corporation is by Bill Gates and Paul Allen who addicted to programming and computer. ... Afterward, it rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. ... (Microsoft corporation history, n.d) During year 2011, Microsoft had introduced forced ranking evaluation system to establ...

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Justice Department reached a settlement that required the company to change a variety of business practices, including key aspects of its licensing agreements with personal computer makers (2). Microsoft has grown into an enormous and powerful corporation by a combination of aggressive business practices and having written operating systems (DOS and Windows) for personal computers. ... Government lawyer David Boies said this nuts-and-bolts approach to computer software added no value for customers, but gave Explorer an unfair competitive advantage. ...

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