Microsoft might take on the iPad and MacBook simultaneously if a semi-secret folding tablet is unveiled at a press event this fall. The company just sent out invitations to an October event, and ...

Microsoft Corp introduced its own line of tablet computers on Monday at a much-hyped press event in Los Angeles, marking a major strategic shift for the software giant as it struggles to compete with ...

Microsoft’s Courier tablet isn’t just a concept. The company’s Research Lab built a remarkably similar device in 2008 called Codex. And in the real world, the Microsoft tablet is not quite as slick as ...

Should you get an iPad or a Microsoft Surface? Microsoft and Apple have competed since the mid-1970s, with both amassing huge — and in some cases, intensely loyal — followings. Apple was the first to ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates here for the launch. Acer, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are among the companies making the new tablet PCs, which are similar to notebook PCs. Most of the devices ...