Beancounters from Context have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and concluded that commercial PC sales are driving growth in the hardware market.
While the PC market has been suffering for the last five years, the commercial market has been its main source of revenue.
Context, which gets sales numbers from Western European distributors, indicate that volume sales of desktops, notebooks and PC workstations increased by 3.3 percent in January year-on-year.
The growth was driven by sales of commercial PCs, which had a 10.3 percent rise last month. The consumer segment continued to struggle, and volumes there dropped by 4.4 percent.
The growth in the commercial sector was across all the main form factors with desktops up by 6.5 percent, notebooks by 12 percent and PC workstations by 12.5 percent.
Context believes that the long awaited impact of Windows 10 was starting to kick in and drive customer upgrades.
Context senior analyst Marie-Christine Pygott said that commercial PCs will remain the stronger segment soon as more companies upgrade to Windows 10 and refresh their ageing hardware.
