500M outdated PCs still in use
Esther Dyson devoted her PC Forum (which now stands for Platforms for Communications) conference to "Who? What? Where? Data Comes Alive" according to this Fortune column which covered Intel President Otellini's speech:
Otellini took a moment to brag about PCs, despite the crowd's apparent apathy. He said the global PC industry would return to double-digit growth again this year after a flat year in 2002 and a decline in 2001. But he conceded that, "the industry is still trying to figure out when the corporate refresh will happen." That's the time when companies finally start buying in quantity to replace all those outdated PCs they bought preparing for Y2K. Otellini says there are 500 million PCs out there with processors no faster then 700 Megahertz, which means they can't run the latest operating systems or security software from Microsoft.