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06/02/2013 12:01 | By Simon Munk, contributor, MSN Tech
Tech's best comebacks
Biggest comebacks in tech: IBM
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Once upon a time, IBM was computing. It was so dominant that Stanley Kubrick named his all-seeing, god-complex computer in 2001: A Space Oddyssey after the company (HAL is only IBM shifted one letter back).
Then its mainframes were eclipsed by Microsoft's desktop computers and the corporate structure turned "inbred and ingrown", according to its rescuer. Louis Gerstner became CEO in 1993, ditched desktop computers and OS/2 and hauled the company back together.
Since then, IBM has returned to become one of the biggest and most profitable players in business computing. In 1993 its stock dipped as low as $10.5, now it's over $200.
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07/02/2013 12:43
i have always had nokia phones and loving the lumia i have got and nokia make good phones never had any problems and had all nseries phones
07/02/2013 21:36
Apple Inc. 's comeback was good compared to how other companies are good out there , mobile revolution not sure if that applies to everyone else out there because some people like vintage stuff like sitting in front of a desktop computer and this is what they have been used to for sometime. Can be difficult to break old habits. Jack - http://blurr.co
07/02/2013 12:10
Interesting comment about Windows 7 being a come back... fun fact, on a Windows 7 PC open up a command prompt and type "ver" it's not Windows at all it's Vista service pack 1.
I seem to think Windows 8 is 6.2... it makes me chuckle when techies and marketeers disconnect!
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