It is uncertain whether HP can pull all of this off, much less embrace the urgency Fiorina is trying to impose.

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It's all part of her vision of HP's leading a commerce-rich "Chapter 2 of the Internet, " (skipping past its absence from Chapter 1).

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Canonical currently serves the leading PC OEMs: ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo all certify the majority of their PCs on Ubuntu and pre-install it in global markets.

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With all of these components, HP becomes the only firm that can supply end to end enterprise IT, including hardware and software, either on premises or under the Infrastructure as a Service model.

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HP's board said Friday that it "fully supports" the re-election of all its directors.

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Simply put, HP wants what Apple has: One operating system, which it completely controls, at the heart of all of its consumer electronics phones, tablets, lightweight PCs, perhaps music players, digital cameras, televisions, etc.

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Incidentally, it has both WiDi and 802.11ac, neither of which have been included on an HP all-in-one before.

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