By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 19, 2002, 6:24 AM PT

LAS VEGAS--IBM is rediscovering the desktop.

Although analysts and pundits have called for IBM to exit the PC market in past years, Big Blue has charted a course to revive its position in the market by developing software designed to substantially reduce the costs of managing desktops.

Client Rescue and Recovery, one of the applications likely to debut next year, for instance, will let a person connect to the Internet and run diagnostic tests even if a PC hard drive is disabled and cannot boot the Windows operating system. Another application in development, Instant Connect, will simplify the process of establishing an out-of-office network connection....

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