Microsoft previewed its next generation of Windows at the Build conferences yesterday with special emphasis on the new operating system's tablet capabilities. As the video here illustrates, Microsoft ...

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Microsoft is on a knife edge: It is developing a version of Windows that could ensure its continued success in the computer market -- or it could completely cannibalize Microsoft's profits and lead to ...

If Microsoft's decision to give away 5,000 Samsung tablets running early versions of Windows 8 to developers at BUILD 2011 seems like an amazing gesture of goodwill, don't be fooled. Even the positive ...

Microsoft is set to introduce one of the first tablet devices running its new Windows 8 operating system at its BUILD conference commencing on September 13, a device born from the first hardware ...

As Microsoft scrambles to finish its next generation Windows 8 tablet and desktop operating system, some analysts say that the Redmond, Wash., company must launch by October to avoid being overrun by ...

IFA 2014 kicked off in Berlin this morning, and already we're seeing an interesting trend emerge: Those cheap-and-cheerful small-screen Windows 8 tablets that Microsoft promised back in April are ...

Hewlett-Packard on Monday introduced the ElitePad 900, the company’s first Windows 8 tablet aimed at business users. Scheduled for release in the U.S. in January, the 10-inch slate supports pen input ...

Lenovo’s Miix 10 tablet is a Windows 8 tablet with a 10 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processor, and up to 10 hours of battery life. It’s one of the thinner, lighter ...

Surprise, surprise: Microsoft today officially unveiled its first branded tablet, the Windows 8-powered Microsoft Surface, at an event in Los Angeles. (Check out our live blog for the full rundown of ...