Microsoft expects PC sales to slow and acknowledges Linux threat

"Microsoft foresees a slowdown in PC sales in 2005 which, it says will affect its own growth. It has also warned that sales of Linux may affect Microsoft's revenues in the coming year.

The warnings have been given in the company's annual submission to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Whilst the warnings contain a certain amount of back-covering to protect it from irate shareholders should something go wrong, Microsoft is clearly of the opinion that the 2003 surge in PC sales may be over."

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