Every fourth laptop in the country is on sale without operating system

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The share of laptops without the preset operating system (OS) in the Russian market grew by 2,6 times — to 24% from January to August, 2023 year by a year, write daily business newspaper "Vedomosti" with reference to LLC "Edil-Import". In total in the Russian market it was sold 2,1 million such devices since the beginning of year on August. The similar tendency is fixed in category of personal computers. The equipment share without OS grew by 14 pct and exceeded a half (52%) from sold devices in the Russian market from January to August year by a year. In total 789 thousand such devices were sold. Thus the quantity of Windows positions was reduced in...