14 DAY TRIAL // As I’ve told you not a long time, Windows XP’s death has actually boosted new PC sales in the first quarter of the year, as more users purchased new computers in order to upgrade to another operating system and thus avoid getting hacked.
Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP on April 8, so sales in the first quarter of the year was significantly impacted by this critical moment for the majority of users.
This chart created by Statista using data provided by Gartner shows that most PC makers out there have actually experienced an important growth in sales in the first quarter of the year. Lenovo, for example, improved sales by 10.8 percent, while HP posted a boot of 4.1 percent.
Dell managed to increase shipments by 9 points, while ASUS did the same thing by only 4.8 points. Acer was the only big company that lost ground in Q1 2014, registering a decline of 14.8 percent.
Windows XP is still installed on around 28 percent of desktop computers worldwide, according to the most recent stats, but experts believe that more users are going to upgrade in the coming months. It remains to be seen what it’s going to happen in case someone finds an unpatched vulnerability in the operating system.