That convinced lots of it and accounting departments it was finally time to upgrade from the decade-plus-old operating system, driving sales of Microsoft's newer OSes, like Windows 8.
Consumption has actually grown briskly in China in the last decade. Overall consumption (private plus public) rose by 7.8 percent per year on average since 2003, in real terms.
Over the next decade, China's annual growth will slow from the 10%-plus pace of the past few years to perhaps 7%-still one of the fastest rates in the world.