IBM PC is 30 years old

30 years ago, on August 12, 1981, the IBM PC was introduced — the first version and the ancestor of the IBM PC-compatible computer platform.

One of the engineers of the IBM PC, Mark Dean, now occupying one of the leading positions at IBM, recently declared that he was proud to be involved in its development. But he also said that he was proud that IBM decided to leave the personal computer business in 2005 by selling a Lenovo PC branch.
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According to Dean, although PCs are still common devices, they are no longer at the forefront of the computer industry. Soon they will join electronic lamps, typewriters, vinyl records, ELP and incandescent lamps.

Although his main device now is the tablet, he himself believes that the center of the computer sphere is not even smartphones or tablets, but the social spaces between devices in which people and ideas meet and interact.

At the same time, Frank Shaw, vice president of corporate communications at Microsoft, is somewhat more optimistic. He does not believe that the era of the PC is over, at least because the number of deliveries of personal computers this year is 400 million.

However, Shaw notes that Microsoft some time ago began to go beyond the PC. He points to the company's software running on the Xbox, phones, embedded devices such as ATMs, and services such as Bing, Office 365, and Xbox Live.

Windows 8 will be one of the riskiest and most important Windows releases for Microsoft. But nevertheless it is primarily an operating system for PCs, and Microsoft still receives most of its revenues and profits from PC software - Windows and Office. Thus, although IBM went further, the PC era is still alive and well in Redmond.

Smarter Planet Blog via Business Insider , The Official Microsoft Blog