PC manufacturers always look forward to a new Windows release, as it invariably boosts sales. Not this time it seems. Compared with 2011, laptop sales for the three-week period following October 26 2012 - when Windows 8 was launched - ...
Microsoft has revealed to many of its partners a price increase that will see user client access licences (CALs) rising by 15 per cent. From December 1 2012, Microsoft will increase the price of user CALs, which allow an individual user ...
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Sales of high-end,touchscreen PCs running Windows 8 have been running"well above forecast",according to Erik Dithmer,vice president of end user computing at hardware vendor Dell. According to Dithmer,sales of the Windows 8-based Dell ...
Tags: Windows 8 PCs, sell well, Dell, touch-screen capabilities
Lenovo has become the world's top supplier of PCs, according to the latest market data from Gartner. Lenovo took the top spot for worldwide PC shipments for the first time in its history, with its global share increasing to 15.7%, putting ...
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HP has lost its title as the world's biggest PC vendor after new quarterly figures from analyst group Gartner showed that it had been overtaken by rival Lenovo. According to Gartner's figures,Lenovo edged ahead in the third quarter with a ...
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The first round of Windows 8 tablets and laptops coming out later this year will be"just the beginning"of a range of form factors and styles that will evolve as the operating system matures,according to the president of a major Taiwanese ...
Tags: Windows 8 PCs, Acer, Taiwanese computer maker, ARM processors