Windows 8 fails to stem PC decline in Europe

Alastair Stevenson
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Fourth quarter 2012 PC sales slip 11.7 percent

PCs shipments in Western Europe shrank 11.7 percent year on year in the last three months of 2012 despite the release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, according to research firm Gartner. ...

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