1993
- 1993- IBM reports its worst year in history with a loss of $4.97B on revenues of $64.5B.
- IBM chairman John Akers resigns and after the most executive search publicity ever, Louis Gerstner becomes the new chairman & CEO.
- General Magic, an Apple spin-off, debuts Telescripts, a communications-intensive operating system for PDAs.
- Next sells its hardware business to Canon and will concentrate its effort on the Nextstep software business.
- Novell unveils NetWare 4.0.
- IBM introduces the F series of the AS/400.
- Lotus announces Notes 3.0.
- Motorola start shipping the first PowerPC microprocessor.
- IBM's storage division, Adstar, becomes a subsidiary.
- Microsoft unveils Windows NT.
- Pentium-based systems start shipping.
- EPA's Energy Star Initiative is unveiled and most PC vendors support the program with announcements of energy efficient PCs.
- Apple ships the Newton MessagePad--its first Personal Digital Assistant.
- AT&T announces it will acquire McCaw Cellular for $12.6B.
- Compaq introduces the Presario, a PC family targeted for the home market.
- FTC ends its probe of Microsoft without any actions, but the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice will launch its investigation.
- Microsoft outlines the Plug and Play and Microsoft at Work (MAW) initiatives.
- IBM debuts its first workstations based on the PowerPC chip.
- Novell transfer the UNIX trademark to X/Open and X/Open will certify that an operating system is UNIX compliant.
- IBM announces OS/2 for Windows, which upgrades the Windows environment to OS/2.
- Sun Microsystems license NextStep and makes a $10M investment in Next.
- IBM say it will sell its Federal Systems division ($2.2B in yearly revenue) to Loral for $1.6B.