Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is ready to introduce on Wednesday night a slate form-factor computer to rival the yet-unannounced Apple Tablet, according to reports. It’s not the first time Microsoft has ...

Microsoft introduced its next-generation Surface tablets on Monday, including a professional model that allows people to use it more like a laptop or a desktop. The new tablets were unveiled at an ...

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Microsoft has been extolling the virtues of the tablet PC since mid-2000 and has put its considerable marketing weight behind the technology. But some analysts and hardware vendors claim that the ...

It makes perfect sense that Microsoft wants in as the world moves to more mobile, power-frugal, multivariate devices. Microsoft, however, is very ill-equipped to participate in a meaningful way, ...

Now the world has had a chance to recover from Microsoft's unveiling of its Windows Surface tablets, it's time to take a quick look at their chances of success — or of failure. Only last week I wrote ...

As Microsoft jumps into uncharted territory with its new Surface tablet, the company is embracing a core strategy of one archrival (Oracle) while launching a simultaneous ankle-biting attack against ...

“Forget Apple’s Tablet!” That’s what gearheads are shouting from the rooftops after Gizmodo’s leak of a new Microsoft product–“The Courier”–appeared last night during the opening of the Gizmodo ...

The buzz around Windows tablets is at fever pitch now, on the eve of Microsoft’s mystery announcement in Los Angeles on Monday. The rumor mill favors some big news regarding Microsoft’s Windows 8 ...

Microsoft expected to announce a tablet at its mysterious event today. LOS ANGELES, June 18, 2012 — -- Microsoft will hold a media event in Los Angeles today where it is expected to announce a ...

Should you get an iPad or a Microsoft Surface? Microsoft and Apple have competed since the mid-1970s, with both amassing huge — and in some cases, intensely loyal — followings. Apple was the first to ...

Microsoft's new tablet computer first look. June 19, 2012 — -- Microsoft made a little bit of history Monday -- it announced that for the first time it was going to make its own tablet computers, ...