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You've probably never bought a PC with an AMD CPU. You may not be considering one now. All the same, you owe AMD your thanks. If you've bought a PC […]

A couple of weeks ago, over dinner at a trendy San Francisco fusion restaurant, a product support manager for a leading PC vendor enthusiastically outlined plans for his company's upcoming […]

By PC reckoning, the 3.5-inch floppy disk drive is as ancient as the Dead Sea Scrolls. It's not much better for data interchange. The little 1.44-megabyte floppies came in with […]

Intel and Microsoft rake in mind-boggling profits, sit atop billions in cash, and invest big bucks in R&D. The companies' executives rack their brilliant, paranoid brains to produce visions of […]

Needed in PCs: Less Noise Personal computers continue to improve at a breakneck pace. Clock speeds are pushing 500 MHz. Prices for well-configured systems are breaking the $1000 barrier. And […]

The Site You Save May Be Your Own We all feel duly outraged at the theft of a Rembrandt. But when someone makes a million counterfeit Beanie Babies, we shrug […]

Each new revelation about Intel's and Microsoft's hardball tactics seems more shocking than the last. Many practices come down simply to, 'Give in or we'll take away the product you […]

MICROSOFT'S SHINING IMAGE once blinded the public to criticism of the software giant's business practices. Revelations in the U.S. antitrust action dimmed the shine. Aggressive Microsoft pronouncements added a splotch […]

As Mr. Bumble Said in Oliver Twist, 'The law is a ass.' What he meant is that the law focuses entirely on precedent, which is an ancient, pathetic stand-in for […]

IT'S NOW OVER A YEAR since DVD was supposed to be introduced, and six months since it went on sale. You might expect to settle down right now with a […]

Compared to telephones, PCs are still hard to use. That's because telephones perform a single task, while PCs can be programmed to do anything. The more versatile the device, the […]

Our currency says, 'In God We Trust.' Apart from that, we Americans trust little. We distrust our politicians for many reasons: faithless promises inspired by polls; campaign contribution quids for […]

Now that PCs are running in almost all our offices and in more than 40 million U.S. households, you'd think we would have learned to talk about them sensibly. But […]

The 'Productivity Growth' of the 1990s comes at high personal cost. Companies are expected to produce more each year with less, and they expect each white-collar worker to do the […]

Imagine listening to the play-by-play of a football game. 'Here's the first big third-down play of the Frito-Lay Siesta Bowl. The quarterback for the Coca-Cola Cowboys drops back to pass. […]

From the October 1996 Issue of PC World Online (Up Front) Forget love and money. All you really need to survive in the information age (besides the personal computer you […]

Like multimedia in its early days, the Internet has enormous strengths, vast potential, its own jargon, and expectations that can't be met as quickly as claimed. The Internet offers rich […]

PC World's editorial staff and research department make an enormous effort to find out what you want to know and how you like to see it presented. Every month we […]

Win 95, as a compromise between technical progress and compatibility with old products, risked pleasing no one. It could upset technical purists by mimicking Windows 3.1's architectural flaws, and disappoint […]

If you're like the majority of us office workers, both the programs and the data you use on your desktop computer come to you from a server. When the server […]

For a decade and a half, Intel and Microsoft have defined the PC, each forming one leg of a colossus astride personal computing. Each new Intel microprocessor has given existing […]

Even a major new operating system like Windows 95 is but a means to an end. Without application programs, an operating system can't perform any useful work, educate, entertain, or […]

New PC operating systems are almost as rare as a culinary invention. Windows 3.0 was to DOS as boeuf bourgogne is to hamburger, and Windows 3.1 and 3.11 merely added […]

When you buy a PC or software, you want to buy from a company you can trust -- one that puts as much energy into solving problems of existing customers […]

PC World has received numerous letters during the last year accusing the magazine of favoritism toward Microsoft. To address concerns about PC World's and my own objectivity in this matter, […]

Advocates of component software look forward to the arrival of 'objects': small, simple, task-specific miniapplications that users will be able to mix and match to perform any task imaginable. But […]