Meg Whitman, 55, led the auction site eBay from 1998 to 2008. In 2010, she was defeated candidate for governor of California. Since September 22, she took the head of Hewlett-Packard (HP) then in turmoil. Billionaire, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, Meg Whitman was chosen to revive the world's largest information technology. HP is less profitable than Apple and IBM, but its biggest revenue (127.2 billion dollars). His predecessor, Leo Apotheker, had planned this summer, the sale of the PC, which controls 20% of the world, with more than $ 40 billion in sales. These decisions have plunged by a third the price of the stock HP. On the contrary, Meg Whitman has decided to revive HP PCs and tablets.
LE FIGARO. – Apple is expected to become world number one personal computer in 2012, according to Canalys.Finally, the HP brand is indisputably linked to our PC.
Why start the Slate 2, your second tablet, sold off after the TouchPad?
We will return on the market shelves. The Slate 2 sign our return. We stopped using the products that our operating system WebOS. We will return in 2012. We will have an Internet Tablet that will use Windows 8 Microsoft.
A tablet is it comparable to a PC?
Not at this time. Internet tablets are mainly used to consume media and e-mails. If you want to use productivity software such as Microsoft, you can not do. Our studies show that this is an additional purchase that does not encroach on the PC market.
- Apple's highly anticipated mini-iPad
- Third consecutive increase for Wall Street
- Explosion of the smartphone market
- Wall Street reassured by the U.S. unemployment
- Wall Street opens down slightly
