Friday is the 30th anniversary of the PC, but executives who helped develop and advance the groundbreaking technology have different opinions on its future, the IBM 5150 personal computer made its debut in New York City on August 12, 1981. IBM PC was the first machine to run a Microsoft operating system (the recently acquired PC-DOS) on an Intel processor (the 4.77MHz 8088) and inspired countless clones, which cost $1,565, was cheap enough to become a serious commercial success and spawned an entire cottage industry of machines that touted their IBM-PC compatibility. The company goes on to tout its vision of the future, claiming that it will soon make all things plain at its upcoming BUILD conference and Microsoft has so hyped that event that if it fails to be the perfect conference of all time, even by a hair, it will be deemed a flop………………