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 MS-DOS, Windows, Android, the IBM PC, $99 TouchPad, and $200 Kindle Fire have taught us anything about technology, it's that being cheaper -- if not better -- than the competition is one of the ...

I've used ThinkPads since 1999 and have always thought them at the time to be at least up with current tech, and at least two of them were mobile workstations. With the Microsoft Surface model ...

Samsung executives will be showing off the device at the company's Build conference in Anaheim, Calif., next week, according to a story in the Korea Economic Daily. Microsoft's plans for getting into ...

Windows 8 is Microsoft’s answer go Android and iOS that permeate the mobile tablet scene. The personal computing segment itself is changing rapidly and it was not too long ago that netbooks were all ...

Samsung reportedly will unveil a new tablet computer that runs on the Windows 8 OS next week at Microsoft’s BUILD conference in Anaheim, Calif. Samsung said it had no comment on the tablet report, ...

When Dell CEO Micheal Dell recently revealed they would be in the position to launch a tablet running Windows 8 as soon as Microsoft launches the OS. Things are painfully clear that Dell is already in ...

The first announced Windows 8 tablet powered by an ARM processor does a lot to explain why Microsoft has persisted in calling any Windows 8 device a PC. The product in question: The Asus Windows RT ...

Way back in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft to sell a version of the BASIC programming language for MITS’s Altair microcomputer. Their idea–producing essential system software for ...

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 ...

Buying a new Windows 8 device isn’t as simple as, say, picking up a new Android tablet. The device-spanning nature of the overhauled operating system means Windows works on a vast array of hardware, ...

Imagine being able to run Android alongside Windows 8 on a tablet. If you’re an Android phone user, you’d have access to the same apps and services, but you’d also get the productivity benefits of a ...