The decision to scale up the Windows Phone Metro UI for Windows 8 and 8.1 was a genius move that everyone seemed to hate at ...

Next week sees the BUILD conference kick off, and it is expected that Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division at Microsoft, will be showing off Windows 8 on a tablet. Many people are ...

Today, Microsoft promises to reveal its Windows 8 strategy and its path back to innovation. Here's what to look for [Now that Microsoft has revealed Many details of Wndows 8, see my take on whether it ...

The Acer Iconia W3 flips Windows computing on its head, rotating the screen into an 8.1-inch, easy-to-hold, portrait form factor. This may seem like a trivial improvement, but it’s more significant ...

Microsoft is continuing to add back into Windows tablet- and touch-optimized features with its latest Windows 11 Dev Channel test build. In addition to a new tablet-optimized taskbar, Build 22563, ...

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 ...

Microsoft's tablet strategy — wait for the next version of Windows — will probably end up costing the company its long-held Windows monopoly, at least among consumers. But it's the least worst ...

Microsoft is reportedly considering plans to build its own Windows 8-based tablet in partnership with Texas Instruments and hardware manufacturers in Taiwan. The rumored Microsoft-branded tablet would ...

Claiming that tablets should be considered personal computers rather than new age mobile devices, Microsoft on Tuesday again dashed hopes of tablets running the company's new mobile operating system, ...

In the two and a half years since the release of the first-generation iPad, tablets of various shapes and sizes have sparked a revolution among consumers, who are now no longer afraid to take their ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer urges partners to stick with Microsoft for the new form factors Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised a sports arena filled with Microsoft partners that, within months, a ...

With new desktop Windows, company hopes to solve some Tablet-tech problems, starting with your unintelligible scrawl. Photos: I know that writing During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats ...