PC industry suffers as Microsoft severs link between Windows and hardware refreshes
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The global PC market is set to decline by almost 1.9% over the next two years, according to Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner. Atwal said it has taken a while for the PC industry to offer compelling features such as instant on and all-day battery life on these types of device, which often have a far higher selling price than standard laptops. Given that businesses will continue to provide end-users with laptop PCs, Windows 10 remains the dominant platform on which content creation-type work will run. Such Windows upgrade projects should become a thing of the past if organisations entrust Microsoft to update their PC estates automatically, he said. Windows 10 is upgraded twice a year, which means business users will receive new operating system features every six months.
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