PCs shipments in Western Europe shrank 11.7 percent year on year in the last three months of 2012 despite the release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, according to research firm Gartner.



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Gartner reported that Q4 2012 Western Europe PC shipments totalled 15.3 million units, a marked decline on the 17.3 million shipped during the same period in 2011.

The figure means that total PC shipments reached hit 58 million units in 2012, a decrease of 8.4 percent from 2011.

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