Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall

<p>Dell has been publicly quiet for most of the past decade. Nine years ago, Silicon Valley and Wall Street alike had written off Dell, the person and the company, both tethered to the then-cratering personal computer market, as en route to the same technological irrelevance as Palm or BlackBerry. However, since then, he's been letting his business do the talking.</p>