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Despite Windows 8.1, PC market prospects aren't pretty | Business Tech - CNET NewsDespite Windows 8.1, PC market prospects aren't pretty
Windows 8.1 may fix Microsoft's dot-zero release but it may not fix the PC market.
After Citi Research revised its PC market growth forecast down to negative 10 percent growth earlier in the month, market researcher IDC chimed in on Friday with a less-than-upbeat snapshot for May.
...Currently IDC expects total annual growth of negative 7.8 percent for 2013.
...Despite investor optimism on a resumption of year-to-year growth in the second half of 2013, "we do not expect [PC] units to grow" due to a "softening in PC end-demand" and "muted benefit from Haswell and Windows Blue [Windows 8.1]."