18 news items tagged Windows XP
Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments to drop 1.7% in 2015
Tuesday 28 October 2014Global notebook shipments, which are expected to decline 2.1% on year in 2014, will further drop 1.7% in 2015 to reach 168 million units, despite Microsoft's attempts to stimulate...
Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments to drop in 4Q14
Tuesday 21 October 2014Despite Intel and Microsoft subsidies, Digitimes Research expects global notebook shipments, not including 2-in-1 models, to drop 4.4% on year and 2.6% sequentially in the fourth...
Taiwan market: Acer, Asustek see opportunities from enterprise PC replacement trend
Monday 28 July 2014President of Acer Taiwan Tony Huang has recently pointed out that the company saw strong demand from large enterprises for replacing their existing PCs in the first half of the year...
Supply chain turning optimistic about PC market in 2H14
Wednesday 2 July 2014The PC industry has recently started regaining momentum with Intel, AMD as well as Taiwan-based upstream component suppliers aggressively preparing for potential demand in the second...
Windows XP migration and commercial spending helped offset weak consumer PC demand in 1Q14, says IDC
Thursday 10 April 2014Worldwide PC shipments totaled 73.4 million units in the first quarter of 2014, a decline of 4.4% on year, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Although still in decline...
Digitimes Research: Notebook shipments enjoy over 25% on-month growth in March
Monday 7 April 2014In March, global top-5 notebook brand vendors and top-3 ODMs both achieved an over 25% on-month shipment growth due to February's weak shipments caused by inventory adjustments, orders...
Enterprise PC demand may benefit from the end of Windows XP support
Monday 29 July 2013As Microsoft is set to end its support for Windows XP in April, 2014, sources from the upstream supply chain believe the action will help trigger a PC replacement trend in the enterprise...
Windows 8 may not start a PC replacement trend for enterprises until after 2014
Monday 19 November 2012Demand for Microsoft's Windows 8 is unlikely to start emerging until 2013 for the consumer market, while for the enterprise market, demand is expected to come at an even later time...
Microsoft new Windows 8 promotion unlikely to boost PC demand
Wednesday 4 July 2012After announcing its Windows 8 upgrade plan for newly purchased Windows 7-based PCs in early June, Microsoft recently announced a new upgrade plan allowing consumers to spend US$39.99...
Most organizations should try eliminating Windows XP by end of 2012, says Gartner
Thursday 3 June 2010Most organizations should be planning and testing Windows 7 this year, and most organizations should try to eliminate Windows XP by the end of 2012, according to Gartner.
Vendors to launch Atom N450-based netbooks on January 11, 2010
Friday 4 December 2009Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo and even Micro-Star International (MSI), which originally planned to launch in December, are all set to launch their Atom N450-based netbooks on January...
Acer is quick to reiterate launch of dual-OS netbooks in September
Monday 3 August 2009Acer last week acted quickly to reiterate that it will launch its first dual-OS netbook with both Windows XP and Android in September 2009 as scheduled, following claims by industry...
Taiwan market: BenQ launches Windows XP MID
Friday 10 July 2009BenQ has launched an Intel-based mobile Internet device (MID) in the Taiwan market in cooperation Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET).
Some netbook vendors looking to clear Windows XP-based netbook inventory
Tuesday 30 June 2009Netbook vendors looking to utilize Microsoft Windows 7 are looking to speed up their clearance of Windows XP-based netbooks, as Microsoft has precluded Windows XP from upgrading to...
Acer Android netbooks will still ship with Windows, reveals chairman
Friday 5 June 2009The Android netbooks recently announced by Acer will actually ship as dual-boot systems with both Android and Windows, according Acer chairman JT Wang.
Intel working with Broadcom to enhance HD decoding in Pine Trail
Thursday 21 May 2009Intel is working with chipmaker Broadcom to enhance the HD decoding capabilities in its next-generation netbook platform (Pine Trail), according to sources at notebook makers.
Intel GN40 netbooks held back by Windows XP
Wednesday 22 April 2009One of the main selling points of Intel's Atom N280 processor and GN40 chipset bundle for netbooks is enhanced 3D graphics performance and hardware video decoding, but some of these...
The down economy could give alternative netbook OSes a hand up, says ABI Research
Tuesday 14 April 2009Cash-strapped consumers and an economy in recession are bad news for sales of most products, but that may not apply to netbooks, according to ABI Research. Several characteristics...