Fujitsu said that Win8 market demand is weak

Beijing time on December 29 morning news, Fujitsu President Yamamoto said in Tokyo on Friday that the market's initial demand for Windows 8 is weak, which is causing Fujitsu to cut PC shipments forecast One of the reasons.

Fujitsu had expected PC shipments to reach 7 million units in the fiscal year ending March 31. Fujitsu is currently downgrading this forecast to about 6 million units.

Previously, Asus and Acer also expressed similar views on the market demand for Windows 8. Last week, Acer's US business director Emmanuel Fromont said that Windows 8 sales did not meet the company's expectations. He said: "The market is not hot, no doubt this is a slow start. "At the end of November, ASUS CFO Zhang Weiming also said: "The market demand for Windows 8 is not very good. "ASUS and Acer are currently the 4th and 5th largest PC vendors in the world, so their views on Windows 8 are worthy of attention. Fujitsu is the world's third-largest IT service provider, and the company's latest statement once again shows that Windows 8 failed to drive the recovery of PC sales, and it is also contrary to Microsoft's previous optimism.

In October, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that the market's feedback on Windows 8 was "unbelievable". Ballmer said at the time: "We saw that the initial demand for Windows 8 is better than Windows 7. US retailers and hardware manufacturers are happy with the market reaction. ” Microsoft has not commented on Yamamoto’s statement.