PC shipments post biggest quarterly sales drop ever — the IDC blames Windows 8

PC shipments fell off the proverbial cliff in the first quarter of 2013, according to IDC, with their biggest drop ever in recorded history.

Lenovo jumps to No. 2 in global PC share on $29.6B in annual sales

With tablets eating into PC sales, maintaining growth has been tough business for PC vendors.

And yet Lenovo is still going strong. The company posted fourth quarter 2012 sales of $7.5 billion, an increase of 54 percent over the previous …