PC shipments to fall 8.7 percent this year: IDC

Research firm International Data Corp forecast a steeper fall in PC shipments in 2015 due to a large inventory of notebooks and the impact of a strong dollar, and said demand would not stabilize until 2017.IDC expects shipments to fall 8.7 percent this year, compared with its earlier forecast of a decline of 6.2 percent. IDC said it had expected the second quarter to be a transition period as vendors prepare for Windows 10 systems in the second half of the year. (Reporting by Kshitiz Goliya in Bengaluru; Editing by Don Sebastian)