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Windows 8.1 Unlikely To Save The PC Industry, New IDC Forecast Suggests
The Windows 8.1 public preview is slated for release next month, but that is not stopping analysts from weighing in on how the platform will fare in the grander scheme of things. It goes without saying...
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Tablets Will Outsell Notebooks This Year, Says IDC
It is finally happening. Sure tablets outselling notebooks was foretold many seasons ago, but few expected this to happen this early. But now research firm IDC believes we are about to witness a highly...
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IDC Believes That The Peak Of PC Shipments Was Reached Two Years Ago
The state of the PC hardware industry keeps on getting worse. Earlier this month, both IDC and Gartner released their numbers and statistics regarding PC shipments for the second quarter of 2013. And...
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IDC: Windows Powered Tablets Are Starting To Make Notable Progress
How the various tablets powered by Window are faring in the increasingly competitive market is something that a lot of people are interested in. The battle for mobile computing supremacy in is entering...
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8.7 Million Windows Phone Smartphones Shipped In Q2, IDC Data Shows
There should be no doubt now that Microsoft’s mobile platform is now ready for prime time. Windows Phone has just recorded its highest year-on-year growth among the top five mobile platforms, and now...
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Shipments Of Touchscreen Laptops To Be Lower Than Expected This Year, Says IDC
Much was expected of touchscreen laptops at the time of the release of Windows 8. Microsoft launched its latest operating system in October 2012, which was soon followed by many OEMs bringing to market...
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Microsoft Shipped 300,000 Surface Units Last Quarter, Says IDC
If there is one thing Redmond is totally, totally tight lipped on, it’s the sales numbers of its Surface tablets. The company has floated around some figures in dollars, but concrete unit statistics...
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IDC: Windows 8.1 Quite Unlikely To Uplift The PC Market
Oh boy, that did not take long at all. While one would guess that after the release of Windows 8, most would have understood that a single software product can rarely save a whole industry. And that...
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PC Shipments In Q3 2013 End Up Better Than Expected, IDC Reveals
Still, they declined, and chances of a total rebound are close to nil, says the market researcher. IDC has just posted its new report that tallies the worldwide PC shipments for the third quarter of...
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Windows XP Retirement Has Slowed Down The Decline Of The PC Industry
This much is certain that whenever the state of the PC hardware industry is brought up, talk about the Windows operating system is not far behind. This time the focus has shifted to Windows XP instead...
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Users See Fewer Reasons To Upgrade Their Old PCs, Says IDC
Windows 8 launched with great expectations, more so from the PC hardware industry that was seeing faltering sales due to the emergence of popular mobile platforms like iOS and Android. However, the PC...
View ArticleThe Ridiculous Growth Of The Tablet Market Is Coming To An End, Says IDC
Eight miles high and falling fast! The sharp growth of the tablet market is soon about to be toned down due to market saturation, the newest numbers revealed by research firm IDC reveal. According to...
View ArticleAnnual Smartphone Growth To Hit Single Digits By 2017, Forecasts IDC
The good old days are about to end, and soon. The signs were already there, as consumers shifted their attention to tablets as opposed to smartphones, but the huge growth rates of mobile phones are...
View ArticleIDC Does Not Believe Windows 9 Will Save The Faltering PC Industry
Depending on who you choose to believe, Microsoft will launch the next full version of its flagship operating system, dubbed Windows 9, either late this year or early next. But no matter when this...
View ArticleYes, Windows XP has helped the PC market that has been going down since...
Analysts love to be right. Most do. With the looming retirement of Window XP on the cards, market watchers readily made a number of predictions, the prime among them being the notion that PC shipments...
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Windows Phone On Track To Double Its Market Share By 2018
Forecasts. There may be such a thing as predicting too deep into the future. But the smartphone world is not all that susceptible to these follies, what with both the iOS and Android platform having...
View ArticleTablets with large screens are the future, says IDC
Redmond have taken a number of bold steps in the last couple of years, perhaps few more so than the release of a tablet with a large display in the form of the Surface Pro 3. This 12-inch device runs...
View ArticlePC Shipments During April And June Fall Just Short Of Growth
You could be forgiven for thinking the technology world revolves around smartphones and smartwatches, wearable gadgets and 3D printers. The good old PC (and laptops) are firmly in the back seat these...
View ArticleWorldwide Tablet Market Up By 11% In Q2 2014, IDC
Now here is an interesting reveal. Research firm IDC has just ousted its tablet figures for the second quarter of the year, and they make for some very pleasant reading. The highlight of the story is...
View ArticleSmartphone Market Posts 23.1% YOY Growth, IDC
If you ever had any doubts that we live in a smart world, consider this. Smartphone shipments have steadily grown these past few years, and are now at a record high. Some 295.3 million units shipped in...
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