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Globally, the market was hit by weak consumer demand in emerging markets and the fact that consumers are extending the lifetime of their PCs, Gartner principal analyst Mikako Kitagawa said.
"According to our 2016 personal technology survey, the majority of consumers own, and use, at least three different types of devices in mature markets," she said. "Among these devices, the PC is not a high-priority device for the majority of consumers, so they do not feel the need to upgrade their PCs as often as they used to. Some may never decide to upgrade to a PC again."
That are reasons for the abo model of windows 10.
Declining new PC. Many PC just good enough.
But that is already true for many XP systems.
Since some countries still have XP user bases close to 30% we will see whether XP is dying fast is the last word. Note that while google chrome has EOL for XP support some Russian and Chinese variants of Chrome still support it.
Win 2000 is also still lingering among die-hard aficionados.
p.s. Just in case some like me do not know Gartner.
Wikipedia says.
Gartner, Inc. is an American research and advisory firm providing information technology related insight for IT and other business leaders. Its headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/13/2016 05:57PM by guenter.