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Microsoft on Monday announced the Surface tablet during a press conference in Los Angeles, California. Rumors leading up to the event suggested that the Redmond-based company had an own-brand tablet ...

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 ...

Let's dive beneath the, uh, surface to see what, if anything, Microsoft's new Windows tablets have in common with their original Surface table namesakes. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry ...

Rumors continue to swirl around Microsoft’s potential plans for a 7-inch Surface tablet, as smaller, less-expensive slates gobble up an ever-increasing slice of the market. Today, The Wall Street ...

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 ...

<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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unexpected demand? Or a glitch? For whatever reason, the ship date of Microsoft’s highest-end Surface Pro 2 tablets have slipped more than a month to mid-December. Microsoft’s $1299 Surface Pro 2 with ...

Microsoft Corp. joined the tablet wars Monday, unveiling its own Windows-powered tablet computer called Surface. The move makes clear that the Redmond, Wash., tech giant is altering its longtime ...