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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

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By 2009, there were over one billion PCs in use worldwide , and many more in use now. Citrix cites Gartner Device Shipment Forecasts that find that the business PC market will grow at a rate of about 10% per year for the next few years. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

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This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. IDC has forecast that from 2009 to 2014 , worldwide IT spending will increase from $360 billion to $460 billion, a 5% compound annual growth rate. Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy.