Canalys: Wintel hegemony of PC market crumbling

Sam Trendall
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Analyst criticises pricing and strategy and predicts Microsoft's share of the client world will continue to plumb new lows

The outlook for Microsoft in the client computing world is grim, with the high-end pricing for the Surface and Windows 8 machines likely to allow Apple to continue to steal a march on the software ...

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