back to article Consumers shove EMEA PC market down giant hole of DOOM

Businesses that flushed calendar year-end budgets came to the aid of the PC market in late 2013 – but not in the sort of numbers that could have rescued the sector from its consumer-induced coma. According to the bean counters at IDC, 26.7 million traditional portables and desktop were sold into EMEA channels during Q4, some 6 …

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  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

    CHRISWELL PREDICTS!

    There is a feeling among analysts that the market may have bottomed out and the only way is up, and there are some PC vendors and suppliers praying they are right.

    HAIL MARY!

    Maybe it is time for a call to helicopter money?

  2. Jim 59

    PCs are selling fine

    ...just some of them come without a keyboard and run a unix derived OS.

    1. Roger Greenwood

      Re: PCs are selling fine

      Or with a keyboard (just ordered another chromebook).

      1. Kunari

        Re: PCs are selling fine

        True, we're going to be doing a hardware refresh on our users this year. Many are going with Tablets as our ERP software now has a touch enabled client that works great for our mobile team.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Suicide by other means...

    Is the grip of M$ so tight that these companies are willing to go under rather than offer alternative OSes?

    Win 8, a true piece of killer software.

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