Analysts: Windows 8.1 will not be able to increase the growth of PC sales

This week, Microsoft launched the long-awaited update of Windows 8.1 for personal computers. The updated OS offers several new features that the users of the original Windows 8 lacked so much. This is primarily about the return of the so-called Start button and the ability to immediately load onto the desktop, not to mention the other, smaller updates and improvements. applications. However, not everyone is sure that the newest operating system from Microsoft will become a messiah to revive and uplift the PC market either at the end of 2013 or even in 2014.

Information-analytical agency Digitimes, with links to its sources in the production chain of this market, reports that the trend of decline in PC sales will continue, even though manufacturers such as HP, Acer, Asus and Lenovo are optimistic about Windows 8.1 and are preparing for release. their new devices closer to the holidays, in the hope that PC sales will increase dramatically.

Sources of non-optimistic predictions are confident that Microsoft has hurt itself by responding very slowly to requests from its customers. And since the company has already missed its best opportunity (Windows 8 release) to advertise the Windows platform, and the PC market is still wandering from side to side, analysts believe that Windows 8.1 is unlikely to be able to correct the situation. Nevertheless, sources point out that orders from branded sellers for Windows supplies in October remain at a rather high level, which corresponds to the level of September of this year, saying that sellers themselves still hope to improve the situation closer to holidays, when demand for such goods on average, always higher than normal.

Analysts do not get tired to note that the decline in the PC market has become particularly noticeable with the advent of tablet computers on the market. Now people prefer to take with them 7- or 10-inch tablets, like the iPad, rather than laptops.

Whatever it was, find out whether Windows 8.1 can increase sales of PCs, we can very soon.

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