The Acer C100 is one of my favorite tablets. It's an incredibly small and light convertible tablet, and can be used as a tablet or standard notebook. Tablets come in two flavors: pure tablet and ...

The Toshiba Portege 3500 was one of the first Windows XP Tablet Edition notebooks to hit the shelves shortly after their Nov. 7th, 2002 launch by Microsoft. These tablet notebooks can double as a ...

ANAHEIM, CALIF. — In his keynote address yesterday at Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference, Bill Gates, the company’s chairman and chief software architect, announced the ...

After months of prelaunch publicity, Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, which lets notebook users work with a digital pen instead of a keyboard.

At first this seems like a good idea: A tablet that runs Android in stand-alone mode. Then you connect it to an HP Mini 1000 netbook and it will run Windows XP. Then I wonder how the data—the address ...

Microsoft plans to drop the “Home” and “Pro” tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today’s Windows ...

In a decidedly more upbeat note than the somber, nationalistic launch of Windows XP last October, Microsoft put the spotlight on the official launch of the new operating system and related systems in ...

So what makes Tablet PCs more expensive than their laptop counterparts? Some say it’s the OS, while others claim it’s the extra hardware. Either way, it’s about to get cheaper, as Bill Gates himself ...

In fact, the pen-computing market is filled with examples of much-hyped pen products and companies from the early 1990s that ended up in the "dust-bin of history," including Momenta, Go Computing ...

It’s been a year since Microsoft Corp. launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and declared a new chapter in the history of personal computing to be starting. The platform hasn’t caught on as fast as ...

In context: Windows XP is one of the most popular versions of Windows despite its quirks. Released in 2001, it was the definitive OS for an entire generation of kids for whom the "Bliss" wallpaper and ...

We have already seen Windows XP installed in many different places. The vintage operating system was officially introduced in 2001, and now, old enough that its last software update was released ...