Every decade or so, a series of monumental events transforms the computer industry, lifting us up to a new, more exciting level of computing. The last time this happened was back in the mid-1990s, when Netscape went public and the Web became a part of our lives. Microsoft moved most of us over to Windows 95, and Apple standardized on the IBM PowerPC processor. The confluence of these events set the stage for the way we use our computers today. Right on schedule, everything is about to change again.
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