Barnes & Noble is getting a $300 million boost from Microsoft for its Nook business, which could help the two take on the Amazon and Apple behemoths. Microsoft's investment will buy them a 17.6-pe...
After giving up on the WebOS-based HP TouchPad after just a couple of months, HP has been keeping a low-profile in the tablet space, content to quietly sell its Windows 7-based HP Slate 2 to a few bus...
Yesterday during Apple's quarterly earnings report, Tim Cook threw a verbal jab at Microsoft, saying its decision to combine a desktop and tablet operating system is analogous to combining a toaster and a refrigerator.
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It's time to start thinking about replacing that Windows 8 Consumer Preview you installeda couple of months ago. Late Monday, at a Windows Developer Days event in Japan, Windows unit President Steve...
Is this the future of Windows notebooks? At IDF 2012 in Beijing, Intel showed off an Ultrabook hybrid running a Consumer Preview of Windows 8. This laptop-tablet hybrid, dubbed Cove Point by Intel, fe...
When Microsoft released Windows 7, the company was roundly criticized for introducing far too many versions of the operating system, with no fewer than six different and confusing SKUs available from ...
We've been fans of Splashtop's remote access apps for quite a while, so when we heard the company was working on a new remote desktop app for Windows 8, we jumped at the chance to take it for a test d...
Windows 8's new Metro UI might be all touch friendly but if you don't have a touch screen then you might want to utilize the new hot keys / shortcuts that have been added for those of us with physical...
Taking a page out of the book of Mac, Microsoft has added the hot corners feature to Windows 8. This feature allows you to hover your mouse on any of the four corners of the screen to initiate a shortcut.
One of the more pesky additions to Windows 8 is the expanding of the Internet Explorer Smart Screen Filter to the entire Windows 8 operating system. This feature now stops you from opening a...