Is Windows 8 To Blame For Falling PC Sales?

Remember the good old days when PCs were king? That was before we had a smartphone in our pocket and tablet in our bag. Well, it seems that traditional computers are on their way out as first quarter shipments are down by 14%, according to research firm, IDC.

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Although the PC market has been on the decline – for obvious reasons – this represents the biggest fall in over twenty years of records. It also marked a serious problem for HP, which saw a drop of 24%.

What more, the unprecedented fall is being (at least partially) blamed on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 8. Microsoft hasn't been having the best of times recently and this latest blow could see the end of the desktop computer.

So, do we actually have anything to worry about or is the latest dip sales being completely over-hyped? Well, to give you an idea, Samsung alone sold around 70 million smartphones during the first quarter of the year, whereas a total of 76 million PCs were sold in the same period.

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The growth of tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices is largely to blame for the decline of the PC market, so why the shift to Windows 8?

We know that the Windows 8 tablets, particularly Surface, haven't been selling well, but Microsoft is yet to release any concrete figures. The OS was designed to give PCs a boost, but with an emphasis on mobility, rather than traditional computing, it seems to have gone the other way.

In fact, even after its release, many businesses chose to install Windows 7, rather than the latest OS. A troubling sign for anyone, surely? Microsoft should really have seen it coming though... who wants to use a PC without a Start menu?

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So, although it's rather harsh to blame the entire downfall on Windows 8, it definitely hasn't helped.