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For your consideration at The Red Herring:
- Apple’s one-percent solution—Apple Computer’s market share is still meager in contrast to those of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and others, but the company has reinvented its computer business on the shoulders of the little iPod. During 2005, Apple clawed back slightly more than 1 percent of U.S. PC market share and is projected to finish the year at 4.9 percent of PCs sold.
- Microsoft’s very bad year—Microsoft, the largest and most feared software developer, was stopped in its tracks this year by the hobbits, elves, and free people of the IT world. While it isn’t in the intensive care unit, the Redmond, Washington-based behemoth has scars from the battle and is looking ahead to 2006 as a turnaround year as important as its legendary turn to address the World Wide Web in 1995.
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