I’m hunkered down in a busy press room in Berlin at IFA 2012, Europe’s answer to CES, where the Windows 8 tablets are flowing like beer and schnitzel from some of the biggest hardware makers in tech — ...

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 ...

Microsoft catch up with Android and iOS with Facebook and Flipboard apps. June 26, 2013 — -- Microsoft is addressing many of the user complaints of Windows 8 in its forthcoming Windows 8.1 update ...

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 ...

It has taken almost six months, but Microsoft has finally given the green light to low-resolution (1024x768), 7- and 8-inch Windows 8 tablets. In related news, Microsoft's Windows RT woes continue, ...

Microsoft has released technical design details about the new version of Windows for laptops and other computers that use ARM chips. Called WOA (for Windows on ARM), the Windows 8 variation is still ...

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, ...

When you look at the tablet landscape, it doesn't look like a very even battle going on. On one side you've got Apple, the Goliath, destroying the competition with its iPad. On the other side of the ...

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 ...