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IDC, Gartner Adjust Their Periscopes on Virtualization

IDC and Gartner Have Boosted Their Worldwide PC Growth Projections for the Year
By Maureen O'Gara
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June 19, 2008 10:30 AM EDT
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IDC and Gartner have boosted their worldwide PC growth projections for the year. IDC thinks shipments will be up 15.2% to 310 million units compared to last year, not 12.8% like it said it March and Gartner puts the number at 12.5% rather than 10.9%.

IDC, which has started including ultra low-cost widgets like the sons of Intel’s Classmate platform, gives portables a 35% growth rate to desktops’ 2%. IDC figures 3.5 million ultra low-cost PCs will ship this year.

IDC thinks total PC revenues will be $286 billion, up 9.6% year-over-year.

It doesn’t project shipments slowing to the high single digits until 2011.

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Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.

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