# 7 Dell

Rank: 44

Previous rank: 41

CEO: Michael S. Dell

Michael Dell’s return to the PC maker, Dell, is definitely beneficial to the company. The coming year will be crucial for the company as it drifts its attention from PC and Laptop sales to services, servers and storage. Dell's revenue for the year was $62.1 billion, of which up to $18.6 billion came from enterprise solutions and services. And it is promising that the management still continues to focus on further growth.

# 6 Microsoft

Rank: 37

Previous rank: 38

CEO: Steven A. Ballmer

Microsoft brought itself back to the race as it launched Windows 7, which had an impressive success. Now, it has introduced the preview version of Windows 8 which will be a total reboot for the operating system and it is already there in media being in every hot tech discussions.