Holiday sales of PCs slide for first time in five years: IDC
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Holiday season sales of personal computers fell for the first time in more than five years, according to tech industry tracker IDC, as Microsoft Corp’s new Windows 8 operating system failed to excite buyers and many opted for tablet devices and powerful smartphones instead of PCs. PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard Co, Lenovo Group and Dell Inc sold 89. 8 million PCs worldwide in the fourth quarter of last year, down 6. 4 percent from the same quarter of 2011. That was slightly worse than expected by most. For all of 2012, 352 million PCs were sold, down 3. 2 percent from 2011. . . .
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