Businesses upgrading to Windows 10 forced global PC sales into the black for the first time in seven years in 2019, but it could have been so much better if Intel's chip drought had eased.
Preliminary findings from Gartner pegged shipments at 261.23 million, up 0.6 per cent year-on-year, and rival analyst IDC reckons 266.69 million found their way on the shelves of distributors and resellers, itself up 2.7 per cent.
Forced upgrades from Microsoft still seem to outweigh jumps to Linux. Will that ever change?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @12:40AM
Of course it will drive desktop sale. The evil master plan is thus:
Android will use systemd. Systemd will be Android. Systemd is Linux. Systemd will be the PC. As Systemd is everything, sales in Android will drive Systemd sales, which drives PC sales. As Systemd is linux, linux will drive PC sales. It will be the Age of Systemd Desktop and it will last foreva!