More confidence in the production of Windows 8 devices

Computer store news: Taiwanese PC maker Acer Inc. (2353.TW) said on Monday that it has received support from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). The company is currently more confident in the production of Windows 8 devices.

Acer's president, Jim Wong, told the Wall Street Journal in a media event in Taipei that he expects sales of Windows 8 touchscreen devices to grow in the second half of this year. He did not elaborate on the specific support Microsoft provided to Acer and other PC manufacturers. Some sources in Taiwan said that in order to promote the development of touch-screen control devices, Microsoft recently offered PC 8 a very low discount to PC 8.

Weng Jianren said that the company's operating profit margin has bottomed to 0.3% in the third quarter of last year and is expected to pick up this year. He also said that due to strong demand for its latest low-cost tablet Iconia B1, the company expects to ship more than 5 million tablets this year, and 50% may reach 10 million.

He also said that the company's notebook shipments this year will likely achieve single-digit growth.

Acer is scheduled to announce its fourth quarter results last March. According to a report released by Gartner on January 14, Acer's shipments of personal computers (including desktops and laptops but not including tablets) fell 11% in the fourth quarter of last year to 8.62 million units; the same period last year was 9.69 million units. . The company's global market share fell to 9.5% in the fourth quarter of last year from 10.2% in the same period last year, but it is still the fourth-highest computer manufacturer in the global market. The top three global market share rankings are Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Dell.