Batu69 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 IDC estimates huge drop for the PC market PC sales estimates in 2015 Many expected Windows 10 to help increase sales of new PCs after its launch, but early figures show that this collapsing industry is far from recovery and estimates point to even slower performance in the next months. Analyst firm IDC expects worldwide PC shipments to drop by 10 percent in the fourth quarter of the year, pushing the decline for 2015 to 10.3 percent year-on-year, with the performance said to stabilize by the end of 2016 and even grow slightly towards the last few months. Windows 10 has made no difference As for Windows 10 and its impact on PC sales, IDC says that the new operating system has failed to make a difference mostly because people have decided to hold back from purchasing a new computer as they could upgrade the existing one to the new operating system free of charge. "The free upgrade to Windows 10 enables some users to postpone an upgrade a little, but not indefinitely. Some consumers will use a free OS upgrade to delay a new PC purchase and test the transition to Windows 10,” explains Loren Loverde, Vice President, Worldwide Tracker Forecasting and PC research. “However, the experience of those customers may serve to highlight what they are missing by stretching the life of an older PC, and we expect they will ultimately purchase a new device. As detachable systems become more compelling (including attractive new Wintel designs), some volume will go to detachable tablets rather than traditional PC form factors, which will cut into the PC growth rate, but still supports the PC vendors and ecosystem.” Windows 10 is expected to have a bigger impact once enterprises start the migration, which is likely to happen in early 2016. Microsoft itself has a goal of bringing Windows 10 on 1 billion devices, but as compared to OEMs that need to sell new PCs, the software giant is more interested in bringing people on the new OS version and only then convince them to buy new PCs. News source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 hey i can still sell a more expensive computer (over the cheaper ones) by putting a prettier wallpaper on it. or a different visual style. what do you mean w10 made no difference? before you judge, that's exactly what alienware does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 3 hours ago, Batu69 said: Windows 10 is expected to have a bigger impact once enterprises start the migration, which is likely to happen in early 2016. Microsoft itself has a goal of bringing Windows 10 on 1 billion devices, but as compared to OEMs that need to sell new PCs, the software giant is more interested in bringing people on the new OS version and only then convince them to buy new PCs. I wonder were they get there info from? I read all kinds of info saying it not going to happen in 2016 . This just posted yesterday. Worldwide PC Shipments Will Continue to Decline into 2016 as the Short-Term Outlook Softens, According to IDC http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Worldwide+PC+Shipments+Will+Continue+to+Decline+into+2016+as+the+Short-Term+Outlook+Softens,+According+to+IDC/11130839.html Quote The market is "expected to stabilize by the end of 2016 and grow slightly" in the following three years, helped by replacement of older machines, IDC said. Its the same as all other analyst predicted they think it will start picking up in 2017 after windows 10 is not free no more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Unless you have esp no one on the internet knows for a fact. You can predict thats all you can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 28 minutes ago, Holmes said: Unless you have esp no one on the internet knows for a fact. You can predict thats all you can do. Duh, and most the time there wrong too. They said back in 2011 PCs would pick up in 2012 the very same ones who predicted it to pick up in 2017 PC Sales Expected to Rebound in 2012 http://www.pcworld.com/article/229607/PC_Sales_Expected_to_Rebound_in_2012.html PC sales have been declining since 2012 to 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x3r0 Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 So PC sales are declining and the blame Windows for it? Nice logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Depends on who is doing the predicting and if there a idiot or not. That article says two thousand twelve look at the date its two thousand fifteen smart guy. Overall you want to know what happens in two thousand sixteen we are going to find out in two thousand sixteen lets play it by eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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