People will try these weak recommendations and discover their mixed or lackluster results.

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This has been a rough year for all of the players in the PC sector: plagued by a combination of weak IT spending, tablet cannibalization, some mixed opinions for Windows 8 and various other factors, PC sales have stumbled badly, falling about 8% year-over-year in the third quarter.

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U. meeting seemed weak, though, and the FTT received a mixed reception.

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