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 ...

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 ...

Windows 8 offers one key mobility feature: it’s easy on the battery life of tablets. In fact it’s so important that Microsoft has a separate category of Windows 8 called Windows on ARM (WOA) that ...

Developers have their hands on a pre-release version of Windows 8, which was released during Microsoft’s developer conference on Tuesday, and analyst and online opinion seem divided on the new ...

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, ...

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 ...

A Microsoft document that sets out the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 8 tablet devices provides some hints about what tablets running Microsoft's next-generation operating system could look ...

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 hoping that Windows 8 RT will be its tablet savior, but the pricetag for Windows 8 RT tablets may be so high that they’ll never get a chance to compete. So warns an IDC analyst. IDC ...