Windows 10: The Free Windows 10 Upgrade Does No Good to the PC World, IDC Says

The Free Windows 10 Upgrade Does No Good to the PC World, IDC Says
Sales of new PCs keep falling, the company reveals

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Hi there

How come people like Gartner and IDC get so much respect for stating the blantantly obvious that even a 5 year old could predict.

Why don't people EVER realize

1) newer PC's last a lot longer than older ones plus have better hardware so no reason to buy new ones so often

2) Desktop PC's are essentially DEAD except for specialized applications - and users creating their own rigs - the home market for desktops is essentially
also DEAD with few exceptions. A lot of people simply use small "Cubes" and NAS boxes / servers where before they might have bought a PC.

3) a lot of mobile computing is often easier done via smart phone etc than a full blown laptop.

The fact that the market is much smaller than it used to be doesn't mean there's NO market -- it's just a different market.

The same with writeable CD's / DVD's -- market for these also falling -- no problems -- and who buys floppy disks any more.

Cheers
jimbo

:)

 

Windows10 upgrade

 

Windows 10 will not activate

Hi, I received the icon on my Windows 8.1 pc to say my free windows 10 download was available. I then downloaded it with no problems but it will not activate windows as it is saying my product key does not work. This pc was bought in May last year from
Currys/PC World so I am positive it has a legal copy of windows 8 on it. Can you please help?

 

Did Microsoft (or anyone) ever say that the purpose of the free Windows 10 upgrade was to revive PC sales? I never read or thought that.

 

I doubt that MS thought that the free upgrade would increase PC sales. A free upgrade is going to have the opposite results.

 

Yes, Even in a bad month, the PC market (desktops & laptops) still dwarfs the sales of tablets, for understandable reasons. A bad month in PC sales is 25-30 *million* PC sales *per month*--whereas a "robust" PC market is 40M + per month... In just two months in a bad sales year, PCs still outsell xBone & PS4 *combined*--for all of the years both consoles have been selling--or, the xBox 360 for the entire 10 years it was available! In a mere two months...Perspective is a marvelous thing...*Wink

Also, millions of people have become savvy enough to upgrade their existing desktops at home--the Amazon market for computer peripherals like motherboards, PSU, GPUs, CPUS, and RAM is booming, for instance. A huge selection in hardware peripheral choice and availability doesn't happen for small and shrinking markets...Sales of *new* desktop PCs are just part of the picture...Intel has been reporting record CPU profits, for instance, and AMD is launching new GPU (Polaris) and CPU (Zen) products this year--that will only serve desktop & laptop PC markets.

The component-level upgradable x86 PC is still far and away the best value going in all computer tech, imo. I don't see that changing for obvious reasons.