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Windows 8 hurting PC sales, exec says

A receptionist awaits visitors at Fujitsu's showroom in

Photo credit: AP | A receptionist awaits visitors at Fujitsu's showroom in Tokyo. Fujitsu, Japan’s biggest provider of computer services, said initial appetite for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system is “weak” and that it will miss its annual shipment target for personal computers. (Jan. 31, 2007)

Fujitsu Ltd., Japan’s biggest provider of computer services, said the company will miss its annual shipment target for personal computers amid slow demand for Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system.

Initial appetite for the software, introduced in October, is “weak,” Fujitsu President Masami Yamamoto, 58, told reporters in Tokyo Thursday. Slumping demand in Europe amid the sovereign-debt...

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