PC vendors reportedly facing challenges from Windows 8

PC vendors reportedly facing challenges from Windows 8: Notebook brand vendors originally expected ultrabooks and Windows 8 to help start a new wave of PC replacement in the second half of 2012, but are reportedly facing great pressure as Windows 8's touchscreen design as well as the software itself may increase the cost of products and push their end prices out of the mainstream level, thus reducing consumer demand, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.