Microsoft is a top five PC maker in the United States for the first time ever. The company displaced Acer as one of the top 5 makers this quarter, with a market share of 4.1%, reports Gartner.
Although the global PC market saw some impressive growth after ages in Q2 2018, this quarter has been fairly flat for the industry. With only 0.1% growth and 67.2 million units sold, there hasn’t been much growth in the market this quarter, as noted by VentureBeat. Microsoft did, however, make big movements this quarter.
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The company’s Surface shipments only went up by 11,000 units, resulting in a growth of 0.1% in market share. That 0.1% growth was enough to displace Acer, making Microsoft one of the top 5 PC maker in the United States for the first time in history, six years after the company first started making Surface devices.
That’s a big accomplishment for Microsoft’s Surface brand. Although Surface hasn’t been making significant growth in recent times, it’s slowly turning out to be a billion-dollar business for Redmond. Microsoft is still far behind Apple, the fourth top PC vendor in the US, with 13.7% market share. The company’s Surface business still has a long way to go, and the new Surface devices launched last week could help continue its growth.
skane2600
<p>Given that number 4 has a market share over 3 times as large, it's not very impressive IMO. Or another way to look at it is that over 95% of the market is non-MS PCs.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#352125">In reply to kenhes:</a></em></blockquote><p>Top 5 is an arbitrary classification, it's the percentages that matter. Consider that the top 2 have over 1/2 of the market and those outside the top five collectively have more than double Microsoft's share. According to Paul's article, Surface PCs only grew by 0.1%. which is pretty much negligible even it it eases out Acer for 5th place. </p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#352189">In reply to Truffles:</a></em></blockquote><p>I think both the probability of MS becoming a major player in the PC hardware market or Chromebooks becoming a major force in the laptop market are pretty low. </p><p><br></p><p>More likely we'll see other PC makers continue to concentrate on the Windows market with sales appropriate to a mature PC market.</p><p><br></p>
skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#352195">In reply to warren:</a></em></blockquote><p>You're right, but the story is about Microsoft's market share of PC hardware, not Windows market share. Recognizing that Microsoft's share of the PC hardware market remains tiny isn't dissing Windows.</p>
PeterC
<p>I hope Nadella and his trusted number cruncher remain committed to surface, but I am not sure they are or will. Recent product launches can’t just be explained away as iterative staged development, in my opinion.</p><p><br></p><p>Xbox is moving to a service platform, office and windows already are well on their way and that leaves…. surface. As a design house it’s got bags of potential, but I can see it being sold to Dell or someone else, maybe it’s designs get licensed out to manufacturers, which could be interesting too. It’s not far off what they’ve done with surface 2-1 concepts anyway.</p><p><br></p><p>But volume hardware isn’t in Nadella’s vision. He’s into small runs of hardware that show important software or technologies off and their potential. Then get others to pursue the potential using MS azure platform etc.</p><p><br></p><p>Before you disagree in a frothy tone with me just take a look at the figures Paul’s quoted. Look at the financial commitment Nadella would have to make to reach Apple at its fourth place position. He ain’t spending the dough and he never intends to. But he will get others to do so. </p><p><br></p>
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