Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and concluded that the second quarter was good for the PC market.
Windows 7 support is ending in six months and is driving the migration to the latest Microsoft OS and supporting investments in new PC hardware with the market bouncing back from a couple of quarters of decline to deliver growth in the second quarter, IDC said.
The PC market returned to the black, with the analyst house deeming it to improve year-on-year by 4.7 percent in the second quarter. The CPU shortages are easing.
IDC Devices and Displays research vice president Linn Huang said the end of Windows 7 support in January next year was a significant catalyst for some of the shift towards Windows 10.
“With the January 2020 end of service date for Windows 7 approaching, the market has entered the last leg of the Windows 7 to Windows 10 commercial migrations… However, the closing sprint is unlikely to generate the spike seen when Windows XP met its end of service because we are further ahead of the migration with two quarters to go. Still, organisations looking to finish their migration will create new opportunities for the market in the coming quarters,” she said.
IDC reported that after two-quarters of decline EMEA saw growth in the traditional PC market in the second quarter with Windows migration and backlogs caused by CPU shortages helping create that result.
