IDC thinks that global PC sales will experience resurgent growth of 20 percent in 2010. Fueling the optimistic figure is the sales of worldwide PC shipments in the first three months of the year, which the research company says is 27.1 percent higher than the same time period in 2009.

In a written statement, IDC analyst Jay Chou wrote: "Beyond continuing with the market recovery, 2010 will be a year filled with new formulations on what constitutes the PC experience." What is interesting is how this statement coincides with the sentiments of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer, who was quoted as saying "The PC as we know it will continue to morph." Ballmer was asked about his opinion about whether the iPad will eventually replace the PC when he made the above statement. 

Beyond "brute computing power," IDC thinks that the continuing value proposition of the PC will be measured by its ability to meet the creation and consumption of content--in a portable package.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Computerworld 

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