Tami Reller, the new head of Microsoft's Windows division replacing Steven Sinofsky, touted Windows 8's success to financial analysts on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 28, 2012
The release of Windows 8 and the launch of Office 2013 early next year promise to play a key role in bringing cloud computing to the mainstream.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 27, 2012
Businesses may be slower to adopt Windows 8 than Windows 7, Forrester Research has concluded.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 17, 2012
Microsoft this week took the wraps off its roadmap and marketing vision for the upcoming Windows Embedded 8 product.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2012
A "release preview" version of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is now available for download, Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 14, 2012
Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live group, and widely considered a possible successor to CEO Steve Ballmer, has unexpectedly left the company.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- November 13, 2012
OEMs looking to take advantage of the Windows 8 wave are flooding the channel with new, touch-capable models -- but many face pricing challenges. With the PC market struggling, what are the chances for the Ultrabook's success?
- By Scott Bekker
- November 09, 2012
Microsoft launched the Surface RT tablet with a price tag that failed to impress. Surely, there's a reason for that.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 05, 2012
Microsoft appears to have officially changed the "Metro" term for the user interface (UI) and app style for Windows 8 to a new "Windows Store app."
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 02, 2012
With analysts at Gartner Inc. discouraging enterprises from upgrading to Windows 8 yet, the expectation is for a fairly slow rollout of the radically different OS. For customers willing to leap right away, though, there are a few tools that partners can use to ease migrations.
- By Gladys Rama
- November 01, 2012
RCP shines the spotlight on five more early Ultrabook models from Lenovo, Dell and others that are looking to take advantage of Microsoft's touch focus in Windows 8.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2012
Microsoft executives pulled out all the stops at Monday's Build 2012 conference kickoff in an effort to lure developers to Windows 8, Surface RT and Windows Phone 8.
- By Kathleen Richards
- October 31, 2012
Microsoft's new Windows 8 client operating system and the Windows RT-based Surface tablet both hit the general availability milestone on Friday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 26, 2012
Microsoft on Thursday began a crucial new era in its history as it launched its first-ever computer, the Surface -- a slick new system that functions as both a tablet device and notebook PC.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2012
The Surface RT isn't the only game in town when it comes to Windows 8/RT devices. Key OEM partners are launching a new class of devices based on the most significant revamp of Windows in more than two decades.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 25, 2012