The end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes. Compaq has ceased to exist as a company, having been fully integrated into HP, while IBM has gone the other way, divesting itself of both storage and personal computers. Apple has become the king of personal music players but is not really thought of as a power in computing anymore, and Microsoft has taken the momentum away from Sony in multimedia.
The Next Five Years in High Tech
Posted by: Rob Enderle December 20, 2004 05:00 AMThe end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes. Compaq has ceased to exist as a company, having been fully integrated into HP, while IBM has gone the other way, divesting itself of both storage and personal computers. Apple has become the king of personal music players but is not really thought of as a power in computing anymore, and Microsoft has taken the momentum away from Sony in multimedia.