Canalys hails ray of light for PC market

Hannah Breeze
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Analyst says PC market will boom by nearly 10 per cent by 2017, but growth will be driven by tablets as desktop shipments slump

Market watcher Canalys has issued an unusually optimistic forecast for the PC market, predicting that rocketing demand for tablets will prop up sales over the coming years. The analyst, which de...

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