Despite numerous rumour of Dell leaving PC, Dell Technologies has reiterated last Monday that PCs are still deemed as important to the company and it will not leave the market. The company also said that they would offer PC-as-a-service in the whole world by the end of the year.
In an article published in PC World, despite defending PCs, Dell's CEO Michael Dell only talk about it for few minutes in his opening keynote speech at the Dell EMC World in Las Megas. He also said that PCs are the engine that would keep the enterprises chugging.
Dell also announced that the company would offer the PC-as-a-service worldwide by the end of 2017. More details about this program would be shared to the public soon.
Currently, HP and Microsoft are offering PC-as-a-service options, which would allow customers to buy devices and support and pay on a monthly basis. This option would reduce the hardware acquisition and would support costs for companies.
In an article published in Aphne Networks, Michael Dell had Dell in a start in 1984 as a PC company when he was 19 years old. Currently, the PC market is limited and the approach of Dell is like Intel's: focusing on enterprise IT infrastructure.
Also, Dell is focused more on storage, cloud networking, server, and internet-of-things offerings. The article by PC Advisor also suggested the possibility of explosive growth in the PC market is currently remote, most especially with the mobile devices and tablets being used for computing purposes. The worldwide shipments of PC will be static in the 250 million to 300 million range and new purchases will replace existing PCs.
Dell's PC shipments saw an increase by 6.2 percent in the first quarter of this year to 9.6 million units. Dell was the third largest PC maker, only behind HP and Lenovo and was held at 15.9 percent market share.