HP is trying to prise open SME wallets by rolling out a device-as-a-service pilot Stateside – with wider deployment in Europe set for the summer. The Office in a Box initiative created with Google – not Microsoft – and telco AT&T was launched with US distie Synnex, which created an online configuration tool. The model is …

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 11:36 GMT dogged

The Curse of HP

Bye then, Google.

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1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 19:57 GMT Bob Vistakin
  
  Re: The Curse of HP
  
  Bollocks.
  
  Bypassing Microsoft is always a smart move, no matter what the circumstances.
  
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  1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 20:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: The Curse of HP
    
    Except when it comes to an Office suite that actually works.
    
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Wednesday 26th March 2014 11:48 GMT Anonymous Coward

"this is a recurring revenue model with automated refresh - not just your standard leasing model"

So that'll be an automatically renewing leasing model then.

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1. Wednesday 26th March 2014 12:37 GMT Phil O'Sophical
  
  And of course "recurring revenue" is "recurring expense" when viewed from the other side.
  
  If this is "device as a service", does a standalone laptop/tablet with all your software and data installed become "service as a device" ? Unplug'n'play, so to speak.
  
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2. Wednesday 26th March 2014 14:43 GMT Wensleydale Cheese
  
  I can see the court orders on their way even now
  
  "So that'll be an automatically renewing leasing model then."
  
  Like the ISPs and telcos who carry on billing after you've cancelled your contract then?
  
  And have the cheek to use debt collectors or court orders to pursue non-payment of services not actually delivered.
  
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Wednesday 26th March 2014 15:24 GMT tempemeaty

CEO as a Service?

I just got off the phone with someone in India who works for an outsourcing company. They're talking about offering "CEO as a Service" to shareholders of the Western Corporations. The analysts are predicting that those Corporations will no longer have "in house" CEOs by 2017...

...kidding.

But now that I've thought of this new idea....hmmm....

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Wednesday 26th March 2014 15:44 GMT All names Taken

HP seems to do a pretty good job at putting baked beans in a can with tomato sauce.

Sometimes they even put sausages or bacon bits in and they seem fine and dandy too.

So why do they now want to take up with Google?

Can't they keep on doing baked beans like they used to?

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