By Geoff Duncan
June 23, 2008
Research firm Gartner says it believes today more than one billion computers are in use worldwide - and it'll be two billion by 2014.
Research firm Gartner says it believes the total number of installed PCs worldwide has now surpassed one billion machines, meaning there's roughly one computer in operation for every 6.7 people on the planet. Furthermore, Gartner estimates the annual growth rate of the total PC installed base worldwide will be growing by just under 12 percent a year, so the figure is likely to hit two billion by 2014.
Gartner's definition of a PC includes desktop and notebook systems, but omits devices like PDAs and phones.
"Mature markets such as the United States, Western Europe, and Japan currently account for 58 percent of the world's installed PCs," said Gartner research director George Shiffler in a statement, "but these markets only account for 15 percent of ...
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