Michael Dell still believes in the PC market, or so he tells The Financial Times-- with the company set to gain market share as HP goes through "restructuring".

However Dell has "little interest" in purchasing the HP PC business, out for sale since last month.

Dell tells the FT "...the devices and the hardware still matter as part of the complete, end-to-end solution."

The company is the 2nd largest PC vendor, with 12.9% global market share according to IDC-- with HP being the biggest, with 18.1% share.

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Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal report HP CEO Léo Apotheker could be on the way out just after 11 months on the job, as HP faces decreasing investor confidence in the face of the current PC market slump.

Sources close to the matter mention ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman as potential temporary replacement.

According to iSuppli HP remains the no. 1 global PC maker-- even if is currently under pressure from both the likes of the iPad and low-cost competition forcing prices (and profits) down.

However as we all know HP put its PC division out for Read more...

Microsoft shows off server and desktop Windows 8 versions at the BUILD 2011 conference-- and developers can now get preview builds of both to test out. 

Windows Server 8 aims for the cloud-- it similar to Windows Azure, but is for private cloud use handling tens or hundreds of virtual machines. 

Writing on the official developer blog, VP Bill Laing says "Windows Server 8 will be a big leap forward, especially in terms of helping IT organizations progress beyond virtualization to build private cloud services”.

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Dell acquires data center networking specialist Force10 Networks as an investment to further broaden its networking portfolio. 

Force10 is a global leader in data center networking for service provider and enterprise customers, and the creator of Open Cloud Networking technology. 

Dell will combine Force1o's technologies with the current PowerConnect portfolio, in a bid to offer a comprehensive switching strategy for data center, enterprise and campus/branch use. 

It will also continue maintaining existing Force10 customers, which include leading Read more...

Virtualised network services provider Masergy expands its global partner program with Platinum and Gold partner levels, providing additional incentives and program rewards to vendors. 

The company says its 2010 partner channel revenues show over 35% Y-o-Y growth, which it attributes to efforts in building its partner program. 

It already has a list of 20 partners (from IT solution providers, equipment resellers and independent consultants) with Platinum or Gold partner status for fiscal 2011-- including Avant, BT Conferences, LinkSource, Intellisys Read more...

It had to come. If not now, later, but the end always comes. Steve Jobs resigns, handing Apple over to Tim Cook. You can read Steve's own short resignation letter here.

The computer world, the consumer electronics world...aye, the whole world...is less better off for the resignation of Steve Jobs.

You know he wouldn't resign if it wasn't for his health. The body gives out long before the spirit and that just drenches this news with a rain of sadness.

Across the world, an outpouring of emotion washes across the internet--much of it on the famed devices that Steve built.

It was 1976 actually on April Fools' Day, that the two Steves-- Wozniak and Jobs-- created a new computer circuit board in a Silicon Valley garage. I actually remember their first press release later that year...and I discarded it as insignificant at the time. How little do you know at the time? The electronics trade press that year were full of the rise of Betamax, boomboxes, and personal computers were not yet.

Why do we love Steve Jobs so much?