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 ...

A shopper looks at tablet computers at a Best Buy Store on the shopping day dubbed "Black Friday" in Framingham, Massachusetts November 25, 2011. The U.S. holiday shopping season was in full-swing on ...

Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley. According ...

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 ...

Windows 8 is an odd, discombobulated beast of an operating system that suffers from an identity crisis of the most severe degree. On the one hand, the primary focus of Windows 8 is to bring ...

Microsoft is on a knife edge: It is developing a version of Windows that could ensure its continued success in the computer market -- or it could completely cannibalize Microsoft's profits and lead to ...

Windows 8 is Microsoft’s answer go Android and iOS that permeate the mobile tablet scene. The personal computing segment itself is changing rapidly and it was not too long ago that netbooks were all ...

Lenovo’s Miix 10 tablet is a Windows 8 tablet with a 10 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processor, and up to 10 hours of battery life. It’s one of the thinner, lighter ...

The first announced Windows 8 tablet powered by an ARM processor does a lot to explain why Microsoft has persisted in calling any Windows 8 device a PC. The product in question: The Asus Windows RT ...