wraggster
October 11th, 2015, 20:23
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Windows 10 (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/28/windows-10-review/) may have breathed new life into your PC, but it didn't do anything to juice PC sales this summer. Both Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3146617) and IDC (http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25955515) estimate that computer sales dropped several points year-over-year (between 7.7 and 10.8 percent) in the third quarter, right when the new Windows arrived. That's one of the steeper drops in recent memory (http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/12/pc-market-share-shrinking-again/), in fact. Not that it comes as a complete surprise. As the analyst firms explain, Microsoft's fast-tracked release left many PC makers shipping existing systems with Windows 10, which weren't going to drive demand as much as brand new models. You're not going to buy a months-old laptop just because it's running new software, are you? The big question is whether or not the wave (http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/07/hp-spectre-x360-envy-13-envy-all-in-ones/) of new Windows 10 PCs (http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/08/dell-xps-15-2015/) launching this fall will make a difference -- if there's still a sharp decline, the industry is really in trouble.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/10/pc-sales-drop-in-q3-2015/
Windows 10 (http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/28/windows-10-review/) may have breathed new life into your PC, but it didn't do anything to juice PC sales this summer. Both Gartner (http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3146617) and IDC (http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25955515) estimate that computer sales dropped several points year-over-year (between 7.7 and 10.8 percent) in the third quarter, right when the new Windows arrived. That's one of the steeper drops in recent memory (http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/12/pc-market-share-shrinking-again/), in fact. Not that it comes as a complete surprise. As the analyst firms explain, Microsoft's fast-tracked release left many PC makers shipping existing systems with Windows 10, which weren't going to drive demand as much as brand new models. You're not going to buy a months-old laptop just because it's running new software, are you? The big question is whether or not the wave (http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/07/hp-spectre-x360-envy-13-envy-all-in-ones/) of new Windows 10 PCs (http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/08/dell-xps-15-2015/) launching this fall will make a difference -- if there's still a sharp decline, the industry is really in trouble.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/10/pc-sales-drop-in-q3-2015/