During the second quarter, Lenovo grew its number-one position in China, the world's largest PC market, to a leading market share of 34 percent, up 2.4 points year-over-year.

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The PC world may be dying, but tell that to Lenovo in China.

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Clearly, Microsoft needs to remain dominant in big markets like India and China, which are poised to become the largest PC markets in the world over the next several years.

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Already the fifth-largest market in the world (behind the U.S., Japan, Germany and Britain), China PC sales have been growing at 30% per year, fast enough for the country to surpass Japan by 2002.

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