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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told CRN that the company’s new Surface tablet is anything but a publicity stunt. ’It is not a publicity stunt,’ said Ballmer responding to a question on whether the ...

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<b>commentary</b> There's a market for premium, differentiated PC/tablet hybrids that aren't trying to compete primarily on price. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley hopes Microsoft's Surface proves this category ...

Microsoft’s Surface tablet is a measured gamble to enter the cutthroat tablet business, but the company could be alienating longtime hardware partners that are also expected to announce Windows 8 ...

Microsoft is betting big on its overhaul of Windows and the primary driver of this radical change is the explosion of mobile devices. Microsoft’s vision is to provide its users with the exact same ...

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Microsoft’s latest Surface tablets boast many hardware and software improvements from their predecessors released last year. The new tablets, announced Monday, are the Surface 2, with the Windows RT 8 ...

Surprise, surprise: Microsoft today officially unveiled its first branded tablet, the Windows 8-powered Microsoft Surface, at an event in Los Angeles. (Check out our live blog for the full rundown of ...

An interview with Panos Panay and other Microsoft executives who want to redefine personal computers once again. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, ...

When Microsoft announced its original Surface tablets last year, expectations, pretty much by definition, were high. After almost 40 years as a supplier of software to PC companies, Microsoft was ...

The company's own upcoming Windows 8 tablet could stifle the incentive among partners to develop similar hardware for the new operating system. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and ...