HP launched some last year based on its webOS but, under former CEO Leo Apotheker, stopped developing those devices.

Also on Wednesday, Whitman seemed to cede the market for consumer tablets to Apple but said company CIOs would rather have a device based on Windows.

"The consumer market, I would argue, is quite well-served by the tablet in the marketplace today from Apple," she said.

"But every CIO I talk to wants to have a Windows device, backward compatibility, the ability to control those devices from a security perspective."

Earlier in the day, Todd Bradley, who runs HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, said HP expects tablet sales to businesses to grow at three times the rate of sales to consumers.