PCs get their mojo back as usage, sales grow amid Covid lockdown

Among many things such as groceries, telemedicine, and online education that have emerged winners in Covid times, the usage of the good old personal computer has also sort of made a comeback in lives of most of the people who are forced to stay in. Under lockdown, in most of the countries, when people have little to do with mobile-friendly services such as Uber, Airbnb, or WeWork etc., they have more time to spend on bigger screens, keyboard and mouse for a better experience and more convenient text input.

“Customers are using Windows PCs to stay productive, connect and learn in this time. In fact, over 4 trillion minutes are being spent on Windows 10 a month, a 75% increase year on year,” Panos Panay, Chief Product Officer, Microsoft said in a company blog post last week. Microsoft had 86.92 per cent operating system market share in the desktop/laptop category in April, as per data sourced from Net Marketshare. The company, in March this year, had announced that it had reached 1 billion monthly active Windows 10 devices.