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Tablet sales slow as PCs find footing

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I think what will turn around PC sales is the arrival of Windows Threshold, which may be called Windows 9 when it ships to customers about a year from now.

Unlike Windows 8 and 8.1, which forced users to heavily rely on the all-new Modern touchscreen interface (which end users hated with a passion), Windows Threshold will go back to being primarily a true desktop-style operating system with an interface more like Windows 7 with the Task Bar and overlapping windows, with the Modern touchscreen interface being an option.

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I don't know why all the fuss over interface, and why they can use it to justify making a new for-profit release every few years and send old ones to the dustheap, besides making money.

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I had to be wait-listed to buy my new Asus laptop with Win. 8.1. All sold out nationwide. That's why I laugh at the "PC is dead, win 8 is dead" argument.

"Windows 8 and 8.1, which forced users to heavily rely on the all-new Modern touchscreen interface"

That's not quite true. You can choose to boot to the desktop and run your OS just like win 7, although your programs are on the start screen instead of the start button/menu. Neither of my Win. 8 PCs are touch screen.

Anyway, some of the Win 8 apps good, like free live British TV, free streaming movies, graphically stunning financial news sites, etc., all there if you choose to have it. I don't know why so many people complain.... about getting more services and functionality!

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People seem to be waiting longer to replace PCs and are increasingly tempted by alternate computing platforms, according to IDC.

That is not really a surprise considering that most people only use a pc to surf the web, read and write email, and read and write office suite documents. The hardware caught up around 2006 where you could run all of that software to the point where speed was really no longer an issue. I should know as the pc I'm writing this comment was built in Dec of 2006, and it runs windows 7 just fine.

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In rich countries, tablet population is getting saturated - most people already has at least one. Furthermore, as the tech advances with each new version are not as significant difference as in the past, people are keeping their older tablets longer and not replacing them with new tablets as quickly as in the past.

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http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25064514 IDC PC and Desktop shipments

= tablets at 233.1 million (2014 forcast) is already beating Desktop PC (133.5 million) and Portable PC (170.0 million), but not both together. (303.5 million)

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