More than half of public school teachers are already comfortable using computers, according to Intel's research.
Apple gave ground, however, in its consumer business for personal computers, according to analysts.
Intel's market share has sunk in most categories of computers, according to Gartner, a market-research firm (see chart).
But 45 million American households have personal computers, according to Forrester Research, so there are a lot of potential customers.
Microsoft's Windows operating system software powers more than 90percentt of all personal computers, according to the research firm Gartner.
The Microsoft Windows operating system powers more than 90percentt of the world's computers, according to the research firm Gartner.
GNU-Linux is now the fastest-growing operating system for network-server computers, according to the market researcher IDC.
Even the firm defending Dell in the lawsuit was affected when Dell balked at fixing 1,000 suspect computers, according to e-mail messages revealed in the dispute.
Of the 1,000 or so employees in Citrix's program, 46 percent have bought Mac computers, according to Paul Martine, Citrix's chief information officer.
Now, for the first time, a third of American adults own tablet computers, according to a new report released today by the Pew Research Center.
And babies' total screen time, including television, DVDs and even computers, according to Kaiser, is higher still — about 49 minutes per day.
