Soon, NFL players will have a better way to see what happened on the last play than tilting their heads back to check out the scoreboard. The National Football League announced a partnership with Microsoft, through which coaches and officials will use Microsoft’s Surface tablets on the sidelines, potentially replacing ...
Report: Microsoft to Release 7.9″ Surface in June
on 5.16.13
Microsoft is building a smaller Surface tablet according to multiple reports, and a new rumor on Thursday suggests it will feature a 7.9-inch display when it launches in late-June. Digitimes reports that Microsoft’s smaller Surface slate will make use of 7.9-inch display panels supplied by none other than Samsung Display, ...
Study: Windows 8 Quadrupled Microsoft’s Tablet Market Share
on 4.25.13
Say what you like about Windows 8, but before it arrived Microsoft's presence in the tablet sphere was as small as it was stagnant. By the reckoning of number-crunchers at Strategy Analytics, just 400,000 Windows-running slates were shipped globally in Q3 of last year -- a figure that was largely unchanged from the year ...
Shelly’s Picks for Best Tablets for Work
on 4.21.13
We’re moving into a post-PC world. With shipments of traditional computers slipping and the stocks of all companies involved tanking, it looks to be the beginning of the end for computers. Long live the tablet! Tablets are great for lounging around at home with – for watching videos, checking your e-mail and favorite ...
Microsoft Confirms Plans for iPad mini-Sized Surface Devices
on 4.19.13
During its Q3 2013 earnings call, Microsoft’s outgoing CFO Peter Klein noted that the company plans to bring Windows 8 to smaller devices. Until now, Windows 8 was mostly geared toward desktops and larger tablets, including Microsoft’s own Surface and RT machines. With the forthcoming Windows 8 Blue, rumor had it that ...
Report: Microsoft is Working on a 7″ Surface Tablet to Enter Production This Year
on 4.11.13
Microsoft could be working on developing a mini-version of its Surface tablet. According to the Wall Street Journal, the software giant has begun developing a lineup of new tablets that some believe will go into mass production later this year. According to the Wall Street Journal, the motivation behind this move is that ...
Windows RT Tablet Prices Falling, OS Failures to Blame
on 4.3.13
Prices of Windows RT devices have started falling, signaling an attempt by PC makers to quickly clear out stock after poor adoption of tablets and convertibles with the operating system. Microsoft released Windows RT for ARM-based devices and Windows 8 for Intel-based devices in October last year. The price drop is an ...
Windows 8 Hardware Guidelines Suggest a 7-Inch Tablet is On the Way
on 3.29.13
One thing has been missing from Microsoft’s foray into the tablet world so far: A cheaper, smaller tablet that can go toe-to-toe with the Kindle Fire HD and the iPad mini. ZDNet reports that recent changes to Windows 8 hardware certification guidelines suggest that Microsoft is giving OEMs more freedom to make 7-inch ...
Windows RT Dubbed ‘A Lemon’ That Consumers Are Avoiding
on 3.7.13
The signs of doom are all aligned for Windows RT, which looks like it could soon inhibit the same plane of oblivion currently occupied by Microsoft Bob. Ars Technica’s Peter Bright has written a thorough pre-obituary for the current incarnation of Microsoft’s first attempt at creating a tablet-centric operating system, ...
Microsoft’s Surface Pro Review: A Windows 8 Ultra Tablet
on 2.17.13
Is Microsoft's Surface Pro an Ultrabook or a Tablet? Matt Tweety Tverberg, one of Microsoft's Biz Dev guys in NY, calls it an Ultra Tablet. When you play with one, you'll see his point. The Surface Pro tablet is a personal interface for Windows 8 that changes your relationship with the Windows programs you use through ...
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