In the meantime, the PC business awaits its recovery. Kevin B. Rollins, president and chief operating officer of Dell, said he expected corporations to start buying more computers in the second half of next year. He predicted that Windows XP and Intel's Pentium 4 microprocessor would offer a strong incentive to upgrade when the machines purchased before Y2K become too slow for their new corporate uses, like financial applications.
"If the economy keeps bumping along, by midyear you'll see a lift-off," Rollins said. "Not a spike, but a lift-off."
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