Over the years there have been so many times when Microsoft came up with a product that so nearly got it right, but which tanked in the market because the folks at Redmond had more of an eye to what ...

The Microsoft Surface RT and the Samsung Chromebook are quite different machines--and neither are traditional laptops. Both point (reluctantly in the case of the Surface) toward a world where a ...

Windows RT differs greatly from Windows 8. With Windows RT, you can’t install any desktop app you want and are limited mostly to the tiled Metro apps. A jailbreak, however, is available now that will ...

In October 2012, Microsoft launched its first Surface PC product, the Surface RT tablet. It was accompanied by a huge marketing campaign for the tablet that launched the Surface lineup. A few days ago ...

Microsoft seems to be within a whisker of calling it quits on its failed experiment with the Surface tablet, the device powered by the ARM architecture and Windows RT, an offshoot of Windows 8. Last ...