(Reuters) - Holiday season shoppers shunned Windows 8 desktops and notebooks in favor of tablets and smartphones, resulting in a 4.3 percent fall in PC sales in the fourth quarter, research firm Gartner said on Monday.
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.
I wish these idiots will stop blaming the pc decline on Microsoft. The average consumer or pc customer really only used their pc to get on the internet, pay bills, and now go to social networks. You can do all of that on a phone or tablet. Business need pc's and the pc gaming community keeps theirs up to date. Microsoft could have the best O.S. know to ever exist but people want tablets.
Once items like the Surface Pro get to a good price, watch for businesses to look into getting those instead of desktop units and laptops.