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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...

A report from Taiwanese tech site DigiTimes says that Microsoft is considering making its own branded tablet to compete with the iPad. Source: Yahoo! News

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

HP plans on porting its webOS onto other manufacturer's devices, setting the stage for a 2012 conflict between it and Microsoft's Windows 8. Link Removed

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

Over 74,000 students in the U.S. registered for the Imagine Cup which is like the Olympics for technology. Watch some of the planet-saving ideas in software and game design as students prepare for their first round of judging here in Redmond. Link Removed More...

An early build of Windows 8 seems to indicate the operating system is being tooled by Microsoft to compete against Apple's iOS. read more Link Removed

We’re now hearing some new rumors that are citing completely different dates from what we’ve heard in the past. These are the first set of rumors to not agree with the previous Link Removed leaked, including Link Removed. According to Businessweek’s sources, public testing of the next Windows...

Microsoft’s tablet ambitions may reach fruition a lot earlier than previously expected, according to the latest leaks from the company, with Windows 8 based slates running frugal ARM chipsets tipped for as early as the end of this year. Business Insider ‘s sources claim Microsoft has set around...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition. More...

DonanimHaber have revealed early Link Removed indications for AMD's much anticipated next-gen Bulldozer architecture, in the form of Zambezi CPUs. The benchmarks were sourced from an official AMD document, in three categories, Media, Rendering and Games, and the Bulldozer 8-core sampled ended up...

A longstanding player in the tablet market for the past nine years, Motion Computing has seen Apple blow past it with the iPad. So can it make it up now, and how will Steve Ballmer's coming announcements affect it? Motion Computing was one of the first companies to really try to make tablets...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

IDG News Service - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer positioned Windows 7 as an operating system that can drive new and innovative products, as the company tries to fend off competition from tablet computers based on software from Google and Apple. Link Removed

Tablet devices are big news at the moment and so as not to be undone by the competition the laptop manufacturing giant Lenovo is the latest company to announce a new LePad tablet (on show at this year’s CES). However, this one seems a little different, the most notable difference being that it...

Poor old Microsoft, damned of they do and damned if they don’t. With US or EU competition regulators ever ready to pounce on them if they add a new feature that somebody claims is anti-competitive. The Sticky Notes feature in Windows 7 offers only minimal functionality, and there’s a far better...

Microsoft, Nokia may find common ground in battle against Apple and Android in mobile market. More...