Ballmer said that the shipment of Win7 equipment will reach 350 million units this year

  

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft CEO Steve · Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday that Microsoft expects shipments of equipment running the Windows 7 operating system to reach 350 million units worldwide this year. Microsoft is currently preparing to launch a next-generation operating system to challenge Apple's dominance of the tablet market.


Microsoft CEO Steve · Ballmer

Ballmer said in a forum in Seoul, South Korea today, "Windows is still the most popular in the world." Single system. ” However, he did not provide any comparison data.

Driven by business users' demand for software such as Windows 7, Microsoft last month released its third-quarter earnings forecast. Microsoft is currently developing a Windows 8 operating system that can run on touch-screen devices to help the company regain consumers and reduce Apple's dominant edge in the tablet market.

The source disclosed in March this year that Microsoft will complete the development of the Windows 8 operating system this summer, and will begin selling the operating system around October this year. Market research firm IDC also predicted in March that with the release of the Windows 8 operating system and the market demand for ultrabook laptops, PC sales will start to grow in the second half of this year. IDC expects global PC shipments to grow by 5% this year, up from 1.8% in the previous year.

Another market research firm, Gartner, expects global tablet shipments to exceed 103 million units this year and will increase to 326.3 million units by 2015. Gartner expects Apple to account for two-thirds of the global tablet market this year. By 2015, Apple's share will fall to 46%; at the same time, the market share of products with Microsoft operating systems will rise to 11%.

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