Gartner : Microsoft is now top 5 PC maker in USA

This is big news. As per Gartner’s sales analysis, Microsoft has made it to top 5 PC makers in USA. Microsoft’s Surface lineup of laptops and tablets has made huge strides this year and resulted in Microsoft capturing 4.1% of share in USA. Coming to global sales, Lenovo registered huge growth and took #1 spot from HP. Dell remained third and Apple is fourth. Acer remained in #5 spot.

“The PC market continued to be driven by steady corporate PC demand, which was driven by Windows 10 PC hardware upgrades. We expect the Windows 10 upgrade cycle to continue through 2020 at which point the upgrade demand will diminish,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. “Despite the third quarter typically showing strong consumer PC sales due to the back-to-school season, weakness in consumer PC demand continued, offsetting the strong sales in the business market.”

“Although the third-quarter results did not show any material impact, the Intel CPU shortage could influence the PC market moving forward with price increases and changes to the vendor landscape. While this shortage will have some short-term impacts, Gartner does not see any lasting impact on overall PC demand. Current expectation is that the shortage will continue into 2019, but Intel will prioritize the high-end CPU as well as the CPUs for business PCs. In the meantime, AMD will pick up the part of the market where Intel cannot supply CPUs.”

In USA, HP remained at the top, thanks to healthy increase in market share. Dell remained in second spot and Lenovo is in 3rd spot. Apple’s sales declined by 7.6% and slid to fourth spot. Lenovo has massive increase in sales growth (22.2%), thanks to Fujitsu acquisition.