While Apple is synonymous with the iPad and touch-based devices, it could’ve been a completely different world had Microsoft acted on its own ambitions in the tablet domain. In November 2000, a full ...

Microsoft Monday unveiled a pair of tablet computers dubbed "Surface" in a bold move that thrusts the world's largest software company into uncharted hardware waters. Microsoft said the tablets would ...

Microsoft caught our attention on Thursday with a media invitation to a super-secret event in Los Angeles: “This will be a major Microsoft announcement -- you will not want to miss it.” Although the ...

Rumors around Microsoft's June 18 announcement are taking a new turn toward some kind of Microsoft-branded tablet. Could this be an Amazon Kindle Fire competitor? Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

Microsoft’s Surface tablet is a measured gamble to enter the cutthroat tablet business, but the company could be alienating longtime hardware partners that are also expected to announce Windows 8 ...

In advance of Windows 10, the newly redesigned store will let you find apps for all Windows devices as well as the Xbox. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

Ten years after it launched its first tablet PC, Microsoft is still struggling to come up with a hit product in the category. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Apple managed to sell more than 7 ...

BOSTON — A Boston family was left confused and without a gift on Christmas, when they opened a box expecting to find a new tablet but found roofing shingles instead. Michael Webster told WFXT that his ...

Rumors have begun circulating about a Microsoft tablet again, and Monday may indeed mark the arrival of one. But what would such a tablet need to have to grab gamers? Microsoft has sat out portable ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In November 2000, a full decade before Steve Jobs blew everyone away with the iPad, Bill Gates ...