Despite the launch of Microsoft’s (MSFT) well-received Windows 10 operating system, personal computer shipments are expected to fall by 8.7% this year and won’t return to growth until 2017. That’s the assessment of market research firm IDC, which put out its latest worldwide PC shipment forecast on Wednesday. IDC says the PC market will see five years of declining shipments before returning to growth. The commercial market will fuel the recovery,
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Worldwide shipments of tablets, including 2-in-1 devices, are expected to decline 8% in 2015, market research firm IDC said Wednesday. That’s worse than IDC’s previous forecast for a decline of 3.8%. IDC now predicts that tablet shipments will have a five-year compound annual growth rate of just 0.7%. Tablet shipments are expected to reach 212 million units this year, with the vast majority being pure slate tablets such as Apple’s (AAPL) iPad. The