Top executives from Acer Inc. and ASUSTek Computer Inc. said this week that their companies are planning to scale down production of some of their Windows-based hardware.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 09, 2013
Despite struggling with its Surface line of tablets, a recent CNET report suggests Microsoft is plowing ahead with developing the Surface 2.
- By Gladys Rama
- August 08, 2013
A life insurance company in Japan is rolling out one of the largest known deployments of Windows 8-based tablets.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- August 07, 2013
Shipments of tablets running Windows experienced a 527 percent year-over-year growth in the second quarter of 2013, market research firm IDC reported Monday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz, Gladys Rama
- August 05, 2013
The Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview became available for download on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 31, 2013
The Windows 8.1 preview release received a third set of non-security updates from Microsoft this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 26, 2013
It looks like the preview versions of Microsoft's Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 operating systems are following a faster update schedule than their predecessors.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 23, 2013
PC makers will get access to the final Windows 8.1 code in late August, Microsoft officials confirmed Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 08, 2013
For organizations that want to check if they are capable of running the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 operating systems, Microsoft late last week released the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 8.5.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 07, 2013
Some of Microsoft's Windows Embedded 8 products gained volume licensing and Software Assurance options this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 03, 2013
A small group of high-volume U.S. resellers are authorized to sell the Microsoft Surface devices under a new program announced Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2013
Thursday's TechEd Europe keynote put the spotlight on Windows 8.1, which became available as a public preview this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 28, 2013
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the availability of the Windows 8.1 public preview on Wednesday during the opening keynote of the Build conference, taking place this week in San Francisco.
- By Michael Desmond, Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 26, 2013
A report from Gartner released last week gives "preliminary" advice for organizations thinking about moving to Microsoft's newest desktop operating system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 24, 2013
Microsoft recently spotlighted Windows 8's improved Task Manager, most notably the new color-coded "heat map."
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 12, 2013