BillyS - 3:16 am on Jun 5, 2010 (gmt 0)

The cynic in me wonders how much of that 10 percent is just new machines sitting in shops and warehouses awaiting sale.

That really doesn't make any difference unless all of a sudden everyone started increasing their total inventory of PCs, which is unlikely.

I could use your example and say that a load of PCs sitting in warehouses waitng to be sold delayed the true launch of Windows 7...