{"id":745923,"date":"2013-04-10T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=429262"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:45:53","slug":"idc-windows-8-has-actually-made-pcs-a-less-attractive-alternative-to-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745923","title":{"rendered":"IDC: Windows 8 has actually made PCs \u2018a less attractive alternative to tablets\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/ballmershrug-e1350312454271.jpg?w=650&#038;h=415&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C415\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8 PC Shipments\" title=\"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>While <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> was supposed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/windows-8-vista-comparison-414625\/\">the big change that the company needed<\/a> to help personal computers keep pace with touch-based devices such as tablets and smartphones, new research from IDC suggests it has so far had the opposite effect. According to IDC's latest numbers, PC shipments posted their \"steepest decline ever in a single quarter\" in Q1 2013, as the\u00a076.3 million PCs shipped represented a 13.9% decline from Q1 2012. To make matters worse, IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell says that Windows 8 bears at least some of the blame for the accelerated decline in PC shipments.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/yqNzc0ikWJs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Microsoft&#8217;s (MSFT) launch of Windows 8 was supposed to be the big change that the company needed to help personal computers keep pace with touch-based devices such as tablets and smartphones, new research from IDC suggests it has so far had the opposite effect. According to IDC&#8217;s latest numbers, PC shipments posted their &#8220;steepest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-3831","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}