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In the wake of Microsoft‘s first “Windows 8” preview, reports have surfaced that the PC software giant plans to launch its own Microsoft-branded tablet to compete with Apple‘s iPad line, and the growing variety of Android-based tablets. According to DigiTimes, the device will be a collaborative...

Microsoft may be hoping to more directly challenge Apple with a self-branded Windows 8 tablet, part suppliers asserted in a rumor on Tuesday. The company would collaborate directly with TI, possibly using its 1.8GHz OMAP4470 chip, and brand it much the way the company has the Xbox 360 or Zune...

Microsoft's "Windows 8" and Apple’s Mac OS X franchise face a mobile-centric, "post-PC" world the only way they can: by embracing apps and other mobile features. Link Removed

Mac OS X Lion and Windows 8 reflect Apple and Microsoft's views on the future of the PC. Link Removed

In the past week, both Apple and Microsoft have laid out their next computer operating systems. In both cases, the features and design of the software are influenced heavily by what is going on in the phone and tablet markets. Source: Yahoo! News

Mac OS X Lion and Windows 8 reflect Apple and Microsoft's views on the future of the PC. Link Removed

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Apple's newest operating is coming in July and with an unexpected price. Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed

Expect two tech announcements on Monday from Microsoft and its competitor Apple. Source: Yahoo! News

A software programmer who wrote a jailbreak application that would replace and improve upon Apple's own iPhone notification system has been hired by Apple, AppleInsider can confirm. Last week, word went out that Peter Hajas had stopped work on his "MobileNotifier" application for jailbroken...

Respected analyst firm Ovum says that while reports of Microsoft and Windows’ “imminent demise are somewhat over exaggerated”, it notes that the somewhat tardy software maker still has a lot of work to prove that Windows 8 will rate. With Apple launching its OS X 10.7 Lion, its iOS 5.0 and its...

Ahh John Gruber . He only ever writes long articles when it comes time to defend Apple , doesn’t he? Source: Yahoo! News

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen claims there will be 130 million smartphone devices running Flash by the end of 2011. Maybe - but what about performance and power drain? Indeed, as Walt Mossberg of All Things D told Narayen during a recent interview at the D9 conference, he has "yet to test a...

What angle will he take in what could be his last keynote? Source: Yahoo! News

The debate about Windows 8 rages on in this episode of Fly or Die . CrunchGear editor John Biggs, who joins me from Las Vegas where he is attending a watch conference (don't ask) thinks nothing has really changed because users can always switch back from the touch interface to the old Windows. I...

Microsoft’s newly unveiled Windows 8 demo has showcased the company’s ability to, after a bazillion previous tablet attempts, finally come up with an OS and UI that looks like it might finally marry the tablet and desktop PC worlds into one harmonious union – despite some Apple-like behaviour...

Closed is the new open Microsoft is becoming more like Apple by bringing some hardware discipline to Windows 8 tablets, to the annoyance of OEMs who've had decades of freedom.… Server Hosting Solutions Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft says the next version of Windows will not be out this fall, making 2012 a better candidate. Will Apple be on iOS 6 by then? Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft Corp Windows President Steven Sinofsky previewed a touch-screen version of the operating system that can work on tablets, offering a glimpse of his company’s response to Apple Inc’s iPad. Link Removed

Opinion In Windows 8, Microsoft has something that can wreck Apple's 2012 Link Removed

Opinion In Windows 8, Microsoft has something that can really wreck Apple's 2012 Link Removed