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Meanwhile Microsoft is helping facilitate driving people away from its desktop OS by crippling it and trying to make it into a tablet/smartphone OS.
Microsoft: Tablets, smartphones vital to future relevance | BGRGartner: Microsoft risks becoming irrelevant if Windows Phone, tablet efforts fail
In case you haven’t noticed, tablet and smartphone sales have been surging lately as PC sales have started to tank. The latest research from Gartner shows that this trend won’t change anytime soon and the firm projects that PC shipments will shrink from 315 million in 2013 to 302 million in 2014, and down to just 272 million in 2017.
Microsoft threatened as smartphones and tablets rise, Gartner warns | Technology | guardian.co.uk