The company has formed a committee of board members to evaluate alternatives and has hired a financial adviser, the Wall Street Journal reported.

此前《华尔街日报》报道，该集团董事会成员组成委员会，评估收购可能性，并且聘请了金融顾问。

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Hope and fear affect the way that investors evaluate alternatives.

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Without a fix, it could get worse, with Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek writing in a note to investors this week that more PC makers could start to evaluate alternatives to Windows, such as Apple's OS X and Linux.

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This is a serious task for board compensation committees, which, like their audit committee counterparts, will need to ensure their members have the skills to evaluate alternatives to traditional options and the independence to act on behalf of shareholders, not like rubber stamps for executives.

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