Valve Software bigwig Gabe Newell has his long knives out and he’s slashing in Windows 8’s direction, going so far as to call Microsoft’s imminent operating system makeover a “catastrophe.”
It’s not the first time for Newell, …
Valve Software bigwig Gabe Newell has his long knives out and he’s slashing in Windows 8’s direction, going so far as to call Microsoft’s imminent operating system makeover a “catastrophe.”
It’s not the first time for Newell, …
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to the “Big Picture” opinion column that appears every Monday on …
The release timing for Windows 8 has been somewhat of an open secret, but now it’s official.
Microsoft says the final version of Windows 8 will be available by the end of October, along with the first PCs running Windows 8 …
PCMag.com’s Michael Muchmore has helpfully performed an array of speed tests of various sorts on the Release Preview of Windows 8, comparing it to Windows 7. The news is mostly good: Windows 8, which we now know is due to arrive …
The New York Times‘ Nick Wingfield has a good backgrounder on the roots of Microsoft’s decision to design and sell its own tablets. Basically, he says, Surface stemmed from Microsoft’s alarm over both the iPad’s ambition and the lack of ambition exhibited by Windows PC makers:
Microsoft learned through industry sources that Apple had
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At Microsoft’s launch event for its Surface tablets on Monday, it let the assembled journalists get their hands on some sample units–sort of. We were able to hold turned-off Surface for Windows RT systems to gauge their feel and weight and try the built-in kickstand. We could try out examples of the keyboard cover that weren’t actually …
The blogosphere is still buzzing over Microsoft‘s Monday bombshell: the biggest name in software is going to start selling its own Windows 8 tablets. The reactions to Surface are all over the map — depending on whose take you …
Scenes from Microsoft’s tablet event in Los Angeles. The company announced Microsoft-designed “Surface” tablets built to run Windows 8, which is expected later this year.
Microsoft’s mystery event turned out to be the announcement for Microsoft Surface, a pair of Windows 8 tablets made by the company and scheduled to launch later this year.
Microsoft is recycling the Surface name–previously …
Its not every day that we get to watch a company that helped make personal computing a reality reinvent itself. Yet that is exactly what we are watching as Microsoft inches closer to one of its biggest operating system launches …
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 computers manufactured by …
Here’s a glimpse at the next wave of computing – tablets, laptops, all-in-ones and the ever-blurring lines between them – plus a few other unique gadgets thrown in for good measure.