Windows 2000 has helped ignite PC sales in Western Europe after a sluggish start to the year, according to researcher IDC.

The slowdown in PC buying around the Y2K date change continued into the first two months of this year, according to IDC´s latest quarterly PC shipment report.

However, IDC said that sales for March were beginning to show signs of improvement, mainly due to the launch on 17 February of Microsoft´s Windows 2000.

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