“Technology-research firm IDC said Monday that the delay in Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system will affect personal-computer sales this year, but that PC shipments should still grow at more than 10 percent annually at least through 2008,” AFX reports. “IDC said that computer shipments are expected to reach 229.4 million units in 2006, a 10.5 percent increase over the 207.6 million shipments in 2005. For 2007, the researcher estimates shipments of 254 million units, up 10.7 from its 2006 forecasts, and that figures for 2008 should rise a minimum of 10.5 percent.”
“The forecasts are slightly above IDC’s projections last November, when the firm estimated an 8.9 percent rise in 2007 PC shipments,” AFX reports. “Loren Loverde, an IDC analyst, said that there will be some delay in customer purchases this year due to Microsoft’s plans to postpone releasing Vista until January 2007. However, Loverde added that the delay should ‘shift only moderate [sales] volume from the fourth quarter of 2006 into 2007’ and not cause a major loss in PC sales.”
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Pretty optmistic.
They should say IF Vista ships, not when.
I’ll only buy one….a minimac, when it comes with Leopard.
So what you’re saying is, Apple need to ship 11.5 million Macs this years to break 5% market share.
That’s 2.75 million average a quarter.
Not going to happen, is it……..
Hey MDN, how ’bout spell check? sheesh!
BTW optimistic…..
deedubya why are you bitching? Spell check is built into Safari.
Tommy Boy, not quite correct. Spell check is built into Mac OS X, so should work in any Cocoa application, including Safari and Camino. Unfortunately, not FireFox, which isn’t a Cocoa app.
deedubya, after you write your post, but before submitting, control-click (or right-click) inside your text field and choose ‘Spelling–>Spelling…’
Alternatively, you can choose ‘Spelling–>Check Spelling as You Type’ to get the red squiggly underlining under misspelled words.
Sorry, I just realized it’s red DASHED underlining, not red squiggly underlining. The editor of my previous post has been sacked.
“IDC expects personal computer shipments to hit 229.4 million units in 2006”
It should read: “IDC expects non-Vista personal computer shipments to hit 229.4 million units in 2006”