{"id":651690,"date":"2013-04-10T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=429262"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:45:53","slug":"idc-windows-8-has-actually-made-pcs-a-less-attractive-alternative-to-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651690","title":{"rendered":"IDC: Windows 8 has actually made PCs \u2018a less attractive alternative to tablets\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/ballmershrug-e1350312454271.jpg?w=650&amp;h=415&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8 PC Shipments\" title=\"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>While <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> was supposed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/windows-8-vista-comparison-414625\/\">the big change that the company needed<\/a> to help personal computers keep pace with touch-based devices such as tablets and smartphones, new research from IDC suggests it has so far had the opposite effect. According to IDC&#8217;s latest numbers, PC shipments posted their &#8220;steepest decline ever in a single quarter&#8221; in Q1 2013, as the\u00a076.3 million PCs shipped represented a 13.9% decline from Q1 2012. To make matters worse, IDC analyst Bob O&#8217;Donnell says that Windows 8 bears at least some of the blame for the accelerated decline in PC shipments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/yqNzc0ikWJs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Microsoft&#8217;s (MSFT) launch of Windows 8 was supposed to be the big change that the company needed to help personal computers keep pace with touch-based devices such as tablets and smartphones, new research from IDC suggests it has so far had the opposite effect. According to IDC&#8217;s latest numbers, PC shipments posted their &#8220;steepest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}