Worldwide PC Shipments Grew 11% In Q2 2020
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic may have left some industries in ruin, and put a dent in others, but the PC industry actually bounced back from a poor quarter, with …
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Azure Growth Continues To Slow Down For Microsoft
Microsoft reported its Q4 earnings for FY19 earlier this month. And as many may have expected, the Azure cloud platform is stabilizing in downward trend. It grew at 64%. …
37% Of Organizations Now Use AI In Some Form
Gartner is here with its 2019 CIO Survey, which suggests that an inspiring 37% of the organizations that it quizzed are now employing artificial intelligence (AI) in one form …
Surface Now Among The Top 5 PC Brands In The US
The journey that started in 2012 has now reached its first destination. Microsoft Surface has continued its growth trajectory, and the innovative line of hardware devices has grown in …
Windows 10 Leads PC Shipments Back To Growth
Ladies and gentlemen, we have the first PC sales growth in six years. And we can thank Windows 10 for that, as the operating system is said to have …
Windows Phone Market Share Dipped To Just 2.8% In 2014
Took a little while for the final mobile sale statistics to come out, but according to Gartner, the Windows Phone market share dropped to an overall 2.8% last year. …
Chromebook Sales Expected To Triple By 2017, Gartner
here, by the way. But Gartner sure has some news for the simple souls that believe that Chromebook sales are going to take a nosedive soon now that highly …
A Gigantic App Ecosystem Is Microsoft’s Best Bet, Says Gartner
analyst, users still chose their operating systems based on the app ecosystem, which clearly represents a big opportunity for Microsoft to drive home an advantage against competitors like iOS …
Windows Market Share To Only Increase By 0.5% This Year, Gartner
analysis on the state of affairs, and reveals that Windows was installed on just 13.96% of devices that were sold last year. The 2013 worldwide numbers came in at …
Yes, Windows XP has helped the PC market that has been going down since Windows 7
IDC and Gartner have confirmed, shipments were down only 4.4 percent and 1.7 percent in the first quarter of the year. Holy discrepancy, Batman! But at least, these numbers …
Tablet Shipments To Rise This Year, PCs Will Drop Another 6 Percent
says, will be hampered a bit by PCs, and traditional computers will keep on losing more ground to tablets and other such mobile devices. In the words of Ranjit …
Microsoft Takes Over 2.1% Of The Tablet Market As Android Overtakes iOS
numbers from Gartner show that 195 million tablets were sold in 2013, out of which 62 percent were Android models. This translates to unit sales of 121 million units. …
The Wait For Windows 8.1 Affected PC Sales, Says Gartner
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, however, were released one year apart. But so lopsided was the strategy from hardware makers last year at the time Windows 8 made its …
Gartner: The Death Of Windows XP Could Boost Up The PC Industry
Microsoft will soon stop releasing security updates and patches for Windows XP, and though the news of the retirement may seem like dire news for those that still depend …
Windows 8 Should Not Be Blamed For PC Industry Decline, Says Gartner
Well, it took a fair while, but it seems that sense is finally prevailing. After pinning hopes on Microsoft’s newest operating system, the PC industry rushed to criticize Windows …
Gartner: Windows 8.1 Features Will Silence Most Of Its Critics
We are nearing the preview version of Windows 8.1, and it is during this time that analysts and market watchers step in with their thoughts on how they feel …
Gartner: Windows 8 Performance In Western Europe Still Lukewarm
Everything is going according to plan as far as Microsoft is concerned, but the same cannot be said for the PC hardware industry that had pegged an awful lot …
Gartner Urges Users To Prepare For The Death Of Windows XP
The classic Windows XP is soon destined for retirement, as Microsoft confirmed earlier this month that it was sticking to its April 8, 2014 deadline for providing support for …
Gartner Blames Touchscreens, Not Windows 8, For Slow PC Sales
The day was Thursday and the report was on PC shipments. Market researcher IDC reveled in its quarterly report that PC sales took a deep and steep nosedive during …
Microsoft could be an irrelevant force in the mobile market in just 4 years, says Gartner
It looks like Gartner has whipped out its crystal ball and is back with another prediction, this time that Microsoft could become irrelevant in the consumer OS market as …