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.
While Mr. Dell does not believe we're already in the "post-PC" era, he neither denies nor confirms rumours of Dell planning to launch a Windows 8 tablet next year.
Dell already launched a tablet in 2010-- the non-too-successful Streak.
Together with all the talk on "commitment" towards hardware, Dell is also investing heavily in the services businesses-- with a number of purchases in the services, storage and networking fields and investment towards cloud computing.