With Cisco more or less pulling the plug on its business tablet Cius, Microsoft tablets based on Windows 8 have an opportunity and a challenge. The opportunity: give businesses an alternative to the ...

Windows 8 offers one key mobility feature: it’s easy on the battery life of tablets. In fact it’s so important that Microsoft has a separate category of Windows 8 called Windows on ARM (WOA) that ...

It looks exactly how it should have done from the start. It was absurd that Microsoft would design a mobile operating system that left a large part of the screen blank (save for a circled arrow), when ...

Skeuomorphism, at a basic level, means borrowing design concepts inherent to an old technology or approach while implementing new design. Examples include a “yellow pad” background representing notes ...

Ready to jump into Windows 8? As if the switch from the Windows 7 interface to the Windows 8 way of doing things wasn't bad enough, deciding what type of Windows 8 or Windows RT device to purchase is ...