Following years of quarterly declines, a mixed 2018 with negative, flat and positive quarters, 2019 was a better year for the global PC market with the last three quarters showing a positive trend. Gartner and IDC put the overall growth between 0.6 and 2.7 per cent over the previous year. IDC reported that worldwide PC shipments grew 2.7% from 259.6 million to 266.7 million in 2019 whilst Gartner estimated that worldwide PC shipments had grown 0.6% from 259.8 million to 261.2 million in 2019. For the full year, Lenovo extended its lead over other manufacturers. End of life support for Windows 7 has helped to refresh the market but there are still plenty of computers out there still to make the move. Indeed, Windows 7 popularity can be seen in the fact that it took Windows 10 nearly four years to pass it in market share. There are conflicting estimates as to the numbers of PCs still running Windows 7: according to Netmarketshare a massive 26 per cent, Computer World estimates it to be over 29 per cent or 446 million and ZDnet puts it at around 200 million. Irrespective of which number is the most accurate, there are still hundreds of millions of unsupported PCs which present a massive