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HP knew Lenovo was coming up quickly from behind, but its EMEA PC chief clearly thought HP had a little more breathing space at the top of the PC market. Last night Gartner crowned Lenovo as the world's largest box-shifter into the channel during Q3, capturing 15.7 per cent of global sales-in to distributors and retailers …

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  1. Tom 35

    They know how to fix it.

    Fire some more people and out source something.

    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

      Re: They know how to fix it.

      And then sack the CEO but give them a $100M payoff .

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Same old same old

    Arrogance and ignorance. Its good to see Megs new ideas of innovation and realism have come down through the ranks already... erm.

  3. Yes Me Silver badge

    Next logical step

    Surely some congressional committee will now find bogus security reasons why Chinese LeNovo equipment should not be purchased by the USA. Or maybe HP's lobbyists are less effective than Cisco's?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Next logical step

      and ofcourse non of HP's stuff is made or designed in any of the Chinese sweatshops similar to what Lenovo or Apple uses - or maybe Korea just does it all? ( because they are super cool buddies )

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Outsource the Product Management to China

    Clearly the current crop of execs is not up to the job .. I think they should oursource all the WW marketing functions to Samsung.. cause analyst reports and forecasts are just too hard to read.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    hope Lenovo don't turn into HP

    and start flogging cheap unreliable (or, from time to time, expensive unreliable) laptop has HP has done in recent years. I'm glad Dave and Bill are no longer around to see what this shower have done to the company once famed for excellent (if quirky) kit.

    1. elderlybloke
      Unhappy

      Re: hope Lenovo don't turn into HP

      When Hewlett and Packard founders ofHP were running the firm, it was an example of how a business should be run.

      It produced good products (a little high in price usually but reliable) and it treated the employees like human beings and not disposable garbage to be tossed out without any caring

      Makes me nostalgic about 1974 when I purchased an HP45 calculator designed for Surveyers.

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  6. daveeff

    work stations

    The difference between the two reports is workstations - if you include them HP are still No 1 (just).

    Maybe they should spin off their PC business!!!

    Once upon a time HP were about quality, I don't think selling more cheap tat than anyone else was on Bill & Dave's goal list.

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