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IDC cuts its 2013 PC shipment forecast; sees decline of 7.8 percent

John Callaham — Tue, 28 May 2013 18:03:11 +0100

IDC has cut its worldwide forecast for PC shipments again for 2013, saying it now sees a decline of 7.8 percent for the year. In another report, it sees tablet shipments outpacing PCs by 2015. Read more...

Windows Phone now the third place smartphone ecosystem as BlackBerry sinks further

Andy Weir — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:12:04 +0100

The latest figures from IDC show that growth in Windows Phone helped Microsoft's mobile OS to jump to third place in global smartphone shipments, as BlackBerry market share fell from 6.4% to 2.9%. Read more...

IDC analyst slams the Surface Pro: "it's just not there yet"

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:20:54 +0100

IDC tablet analyst Tom Mainelli has some harsh words to say about the Surface Pro, stating that "it's just not there yet" in terms of execution, and that Microsoft should only have one tablet OS Read more...

Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surfaces in Q1 2013, according to IDC

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:23:49 +0100

According to IDC, Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface devices in Q1 2013. The majority of those devices are Surface Pros, with the Surface RT accounting for just 0.4% of all tablets sold. Read more...

Apple's PC market share rises. Or falls, who knows. The analysts clearly don't!

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:04:04 +0100

If you're Apple, you're either celebrating or accepting that you're part of the trend. Gartner and IDC have released sales figures showing Apple's US PC shipments is both up and down respectively. Read more...

Gartner not as fast to blame Windows 8 for PC shipment drops

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:09:49 +0100

The research firm Gartner agress with IDC that PC shipments fell in the first quarter of 2013 but Gartner's report is not trying to blame Microsoft's Windows 8 launch as the main reason, as IDC is. Read more...

IDC: PC shipments down 13.9% for the first quarter, blames Windows 8

John Callaham — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:41:49 +0100

A new report from IDC claims that PC shipments for the first quarter of 2013 went down 13.9 percent compared to the same period a year ago and claims Windows 8 "appears to have slowed the market." Read more...

Study: Majority of workers admit to installing personal software on work PCs

John Callaham — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:29:38 +0000

A new study commissioned by Microsoft claims that the majority of employees who use a PC at work admit to installing personal software on those PCs and that most encounter issues with that software. Read more...

IDC: PC shipments to go down in 2013, despite Windows 8 launch

John Callaham — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:04:21 +0000

The research firm IDC has predicted worldwide PC shipments will decline in 2013 after it recorded lower shipment numbers for 2012 and puts part of the blame on initial "underwhelming" Windows 8 sales. Read more...

IDC: Windows Phone Q4 2012 sales up 150 percent

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:33:57 +0000

The research firm IDC says that sales of smartphones with Microsoft's operating systems went up 150 percent worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012, but still could not catch BlackBerry sales. Read more...

iSuppli: Microsoft Surface RT has sold 680,000 to 750,000 units

John Callaham — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:53:43 +0000

Two reports claim that Microsoft had small shipment numbers for the Surface RT tablet in the last quarter and iSuppli claimed actual sales were as low as 680,000 units for the quarter. Read more...

IDC: PS3 narrowly beats Xbox 360 in worldwide game console shipments

John Callaham — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:08:13 +0000

A new report from IDC claims that worldwide shipments of the Playstation 3 have now reached 77 million, just beating the Xbox 360 which the firm claims has 76 million units shipped. Read more...

IDC: Windows 8 launch did not prevent lower PC shipments

John Callaham — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:38:13 +0000

The research firm IDC said this week that worldwide PC shipments were down 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, lower than what IDC previously predicted despite the launch of Windows 8. Read more...

Looking for a career in IT? Take a look at the clouds

John Callaham — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:02:49 +0000

Microsoft has released the results of a study it commissions from IDC which claims there are currently 1.7 million open cloud-related IT jobs worldwide, and that will increase to seven million in 2015 Read more...

IDC: Windows Phone market share up to 11.6 percent by 2016

John Callaham — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:04:42 +0000

A new report from research firm IDC predicts that Microsoft's Windows Phone OS will take 11.6 percent of the total worldwide smartphone market share by the year 2016. Read more...

IDC: Android inside three out of four smartphones in Q3 2012

John Callaham — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:06:55 +0000

IDC reports that in the third quarter of 2012, shipments of Android smartphones totaled 136 million units, or 75 percent of all the smartphones shipped worldwide. Read more...

IDC: PC shipments to slow down, due in part to Windows 8

John Callaham — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:20:15 +0100

The research firm IDC reports that worldwide shipments of PCs will be up by just 0.9 percent in 2012, in part due to people waiting for the launch of Windows 8 before buying a new PC. Read more...

IDC: Windows Phone sees significant growth in Q2 2012

Anthony Tosie — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:39:03 +0100

Windows Phone device shipments more than doubled in Q2 2012 and Microsoft's mobile operating system is closing in on becoming the number three mobile OS, according to new figures from a research firm. Read more...

IDC: Samsung/Apple surge, Nokia/HTC still struggling

Brad Sams — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:22:52 +0100

The IDC has put out their Q2 report that highlights that Samsung is surging in the smartphone market and Apple is still making considerable gains but Nokia and HTC are still having a hard time. Read more...

Microsoft: Businesses waste money with Windows XP

John Callaham — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:54:01 +0100

Microsoft has announced that, according to a new report from IDC, businesses that still use Windows XP on their PCs are "wasting budget dollars" and should upgrade to Windows 7. Read more...