The 30th Anniversary of the PC's Birth: Is the PC Era Closed?

This Friday will be the 30th anniversary of IBM's first PC release. IBM engineer Mark Dean was involved in the development of the first IBM PC. He published an article today: The PC era is basically over. He is very proud to have participated in the development, the article said: "In 2005 IBM decided to abandon the personal computer business is very proud." That year IBM sold the PC business to Lenovo.

Mark Dean said he has turned to a tablet computer. He did not say which tablet, but if it is not the iPad must be a bit strange. He also said that the PC has taken the lead in "tubes, typewriters, vinyl records, CRTs, and incandescent bulbs."

Frank Shaw, Microsoft's PR director and vice president, is more optimistic. He does not want to call it the "post-PC era" because 400 million PCs will still be shipped this year.

At the same time, Frank Shaw also pointed out that Microsoft had surpassed PCs some time ago. He pointed out that the company's software has been running on Xbox, Phone, embedded devices, such as ATM, Microsoft has Bing, Office 365, Xbox Live. Other services.

In any case, for Microsoft, the source of revenue and profit is still PC software, including Windows and Office. Although IBM has gone, at least it is still alive on Microsoft PC.