PC shipments projected to crater in 2013, keep declining in 2014

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d01787cac86edf85a46e7034f2ed9578.jpgThe 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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