The Surface RT is better-equipped for business than rival tablets, and at $350 ( $470 once you add a Touch or Type keyboard cover, which it requires to be truly functional) it straddles the line between tablet and PC, and could help business customers rein in IT costs.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has re-organised Microsoft, as expected, eliminating the ‘silos’ of product groups and giving responsibility to key executives in charge of key technologies.
Microsoft will hand over its most recent version of the operating system Windows 8.1 to OEMs in late August, Microsoft’s Windows marketing chief told its partners on Monday morning.
Microsoft’s former head of Windows 8 development has agreed not to badmouth Microsoft or work for some of its competitors and in return will receive a pay-out for unvested stock.
Microsoft and cellphone maker Nokia were in advanced talks about an acquisition of the Finnish company’s device business, but the discussions have broken down, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Toshiba has announced its WT310, a Windows 8 tablet to rival Microsoft’s Surface Pro. With Windows 8 Pro, an 11-inch Full HD screen …
Cisco has apparently declared war on Microsoft’s unified communications platform, having chosen the eve of the first Lync conference to describe …
Just hours after Microsoft’s Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet went on sale on Saturday in the United States, the 128GB version …
Microsoft Surface Pro engineers recently hinted at plans for a detachable battery or keyboard dock unit, during an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session …
Sales of Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet failed to meet expectations in the fourth quarter of 2012, selling just 1 million …
This isn’t the first year that tablets are a hot gift item, but it is the first holiday season that …
Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago. “We believe Windows …
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has branded Android ‘wild’ and Apple too ‘controlled’. During a recent conversation with LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid …
Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind the new OS, …
ARM has joined forces with Microsoft to tune the Windows OS to work on processors based on ARM’s 64-bit architecture, …
Microsoft has been slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit over its use of dynamic “live” tile icons in Windows, including …
Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. “We’re so happy to be here today …
The Windows division’s share of Microsoft’s revenue last quarter dropped to a four-year low as Windows 7 sales stalled before …
Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including …
Microsoft has released a free tool to help system administrators, IT security professionals and software developers understand how newly installed …
