Tuesday, March 14th, 2006, 3:51 am
PC Sales Slown
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EDUCTION in the number of PC sales is expected for the year to come. As well as an economical study on the matter, one can find the the corresponding evidence in the media.
What does that all mean in terms of people’s software upgrade cycle, as opposed to the hardware cycle? Since the crushing majority of all computers are being sold with Windows pre-installed, this should be good news. Rather than hopping onto a new hardware beast, people could choose operating systems which are less resource-greedy. Ubuntu comes to mind as modest although KDE-based distributions like SuSE (even with some serious ‘eye candy’) should do.
Sales of PCs worldwide will grow at a slower pace in 2006 than in 2005, partly because the replacement cycle for desktop PCs has hit a peak, market researcher Gartner said last week.
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Gartner also warned that worldwide PC shipment growth could fall below the current forecast of 10.7 percent if Microsoft doesn’t set a precise release date for its new Vista operating system and if end users shy away from adopting newly-introduced Intel technologies.
It has been claimed that only half of today’s computers can cope with Windows Vista. No new machines = No Vista, which is encouraging news for the Open Source community.
It is worth mentioning that several countries around the world, government divisions includes, have begun a migration to Linux. Open Source has been making the big headlines recently.
