Rethinking the Evolution of the PC industry

The computer industry is one of continual innovation and development, pushing the boundaries of possibility with constantly evolving products. As user needs and demands constantly change and increase, the industry must ensure products meet not just current demands, but also future requirements - resulting in faster, higher performing PCs and hardware. The foundation that this culture of innovation is built on is standards. Widely accepted and utilized standards are necessary to ensure a level playing field throughout any industry, and serve as the building blocks that future innovations can be built on. Standardization of technology is necessary to ensure products not only meet user needs consistently and reliably, but also ensures a level of guaranteed functionality and stability for industry innovators to improve upon. In turn, these advances can offer industrywide improvements and user benefits that then set the new industry standard, becoming the recognized baseline of efficiency and effectiveness that the next generation of innovation is built on....