Windows 8 tablet sales: not terrible so far
Although Microsoft is staying mum about Windows 8 tablet sales, research firm Strategy Analytics has some slightly encouraging news.
Although Microsoft is staying mum about Windows 8 tablet sales, research firm Strategy Analytics has some slightly encouraging news.
Google Now may soon escape the confines of Android, if the signs of a coming Web version are to be believed.
Thanks to Toshiba, Windows finally has a laptop with a high-resolution display to rival Apple's vaunted Retina-sporting MacBooks.
Blackberry will have to work harder to get the word out about its new Blackberry 10 operating system and smartphones, if a research firm's findings are any indicator.
While North Korea has made some serious-sounding threats about military action against the United States and South Korea lately, the country's looking a bit silly after several of its online accounts were hacked.
Now's a good time to buy a Windows 8 tablet or hybrid for cheap, with Microsoft slashing prices on several PCs in its online store.
Samsung has launched an even pricier version of its high-end Series 9 Ultrabook, but the company isn't quite ready to trade blows with Apple on the Retina display front.
Consumers and PC makers might be turned off by Windows RT. Microsoft doesn't share their ambivalence.
When Amazon undercut its rival tablet makers in 2011 with the $US200 Kindle Fire tablet, the company was just getting started with its price-cutting strategy.
Microsoft's Surface RT and Surface Pro haven't made much of a dent in the tablet market, according to unofficial sales estimates.
With Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales, you can hear the grousing of PC makers get louder.
It's still an iPhone and Android world, but at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next Monday, expect Microsoft's Windows and Windows Phone platforms to show some intriguing signs of life.
Every graying movie franchise needs a great sequel to give it a boost. Think Star Trek and James Bond. Operating systems are no different--especially Microsoft's. After receiving a critical beatdown for Windows 8, what does the company have up its sleeve for Windows 9?
Forget the naysayers; Windows 8 is doing fine--at least according to Microsoft.
Can't wait until E3 to learn all about Sony's next PlayStation and Microsoft's next Xbox? You may not have to.