Operating system: Windows 10 will be released later this month, but analysts agree that its effect on the volume of new PCs sales will be negligible. Firstly, the economy of many regions of the world is now not in the best condition. Second, Microsoft promised the opportunity to free upgrade to Windows 10.
Experts Gartner believe that by the end of this year, the PC market will shrink by 4.4% . In the last quarter in the world was sold 68.4 million PCs, laptops and handheld devices - 9.5% lower than a year earlier. Slow growth of the PC market, according to Gartner experts , will be resumed only in 2016.
Lenovo remains the largest PC manufacturer in the world, but the brand could not avoid reducing the sales volume in the second quarter compared with the same period last year. In the US market maintains a leading position HP, followed by Dell, and Lenovo is content with third place, although the Chinese producers had the luck to become the only player in the local market, which showed growth of PC sales volumes compared with the second quarter last year.
The region EMEA, which includes Europe, Middle East and Africa in the second quarter were sold 18.6 million. Computers - 15.7% lower than a year earlier. Local markets have been hit hard by the strengthening US dollar. In Europe, large retailers possessed sufficient stocks of finished products, they had to sell them at a discount. Gartner experts believe that the observed negative trend in the market - a temporary phenomenon, which has run its course for the next year.
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