IDC: PC sales drop precipitously, Mac sales also decline in major market shift

A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8, and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, IDC said today. Worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter totaled 76.3 million units, down 13.9 percent compared to the same quarter last year, IDC said in research released today.