Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

(BPT) - It’s no coincidence that Microsoft chose to launch Windows 8 in late October – just weeks before Black Friday and the holiday shopping season. Nearly 60 percent of shoppers intend to hit ...

The first announced Windows 8 tablet powered by an ARM processor does a lot to explain why Microsoft has persisted in calling any Windows 8 device a PC. The product in question: The Asus Windows RT ...

The gaming PC and the living room game console have never been close friends. So PC gamers play their PC games, console gamers play their console games, and never the twain shall meet. Or is ...

Lenovo Thursday unveiled the Miix tablet. Running on Windows 8, the Miix comes with an Intel Atom dual-core processor and boasts a 10.1-inch screen with 1,366-x-768 resolution. Using its detachable ...

Windows device sales in the U.S. including desktops, notebooks, and tablets are not getting a boost from the October 26 launch of Windows 8, an online report says. Notebook sales were down 21 percent ...

Following the debut of Windows 8, U.S. PC sales dropped by more than a fifth versus sales from a year ago. This is not a promising sign. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Ever since I first set my eyes upon the Windows 8 Metro Start screen in June last year, I have wondered about Microsoft's precarious balancing act between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Initially, ...

Windows 8 could put the IT department in the middle of a never-ending fight between end users and the enterprise For all the hype surrounding Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system, ...

That's exactly what I'm doing! You nailed it. Guilty as charged. I'm saying that Apple can do it and Microsoft can't. That's my opinion; we'll see if it's borne out. Respectfully, I think you're ...

As it stands, the device sports a 10.1-inch multitouch high def screen, an Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processor, an unknown (but allegedly beefy) GPU, and two nunchuck-esque controllers mounted to ...

After hunkering down in the R&D lab for more than three years, Microsoft is finally unveiling Windows 8 on October 26. But the software giant's next-generation and highly anticipated operating system ...