The
PC market is in rough shape and new projections from IDC show that we’re probably not even close to hitting bottom yet. According to
IDC’s latest numbers, PC shipments will decline by 7.8% in 2013 and will continue to fall by another 1.2% in 2014. The firm sees a slower decline in 2014 mostly because companies that still use Windows XP will likely upgrade to
Windows 8 machines once
Microsoft stops supporting the older operating system next year. The continued fall of the PC market is
still being driven by the rise of tablets as portable computing devices that can serve users’ web browsing needs at a much lower cost than traditional PCs.
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