Company temporarily pulls its recently released Windows RT 8.1 update for ARM-based devices owing to an unexplained issue. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of ...

We're at day six in the ongoing Windows/RT 8.1 upgrade debacle, and many of the problems aren't going away Six days after the free Windows 8.1/Windows RT 8.1 updates were released, Microsoft still ...

It’s more than a week now since a website posted a tool for jailbreaking Windows RT devices, and now it is also posting a list of applications that will run on the broken devices. The important thing ...

October 26: It's the day Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets and PCs are available for retail purchase. It's also the day that a number of Microsoft-developed apps for the new platforms are downloadable ...

Microsoft is bringing its Outlook email program to Windows 8 RT in a bid to expand the availability of Windows tablets based on low-power ARM processors. Outlook will be included with version 8.1 of ...

Despite Microsoft’s well-publicized tablet woes, Windows 8 devices are starting to show serious sales growth. Windows RT sales, meanwhile, are about as bad as it gets. So says the most recent IDC ...

If you were looking forward to updating your Windows RT tablet to the fancy new 8.1 update this weekend, it’s time to start looking for a Plan B. Microsoft has temporarily yanked the Windows RT 8.1 ...

Face it, true Microsoft believers: it's just not that easy to explain Microsoft's "sort-of" version of Windows 8 known as Windows RT. But fear not: Just because Redmond doesn't want you calling it ...

Microsoft has unveiled the Windows 8 editions -- but sticking out like a sore thumb is the ARM version, which is called Windows RT. It's not Windows 8 RT, or Windows 8 for ARM, or Windows on ARM -- it ...

Microsoft has pulled Windows RT 8.1 from the Windows Store due to unspecified technical problems. Windows RT is for devices running on ARM chips. Version 8.1 was released two days ago, along with its ...

Microsoft on Monday revealed that there will be three editions of its next-generation desktop operating system: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. The Redmond, Wash., company announced the ...

An earlier version of the Windows 8 operating system for ARM-based tablets. Pre-installed on tablets, RT apps were available only from Microsoft's online Store. Introduced with Windows 8 in 2012, by ...