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To go along with Windows 8′s touch-friendly interface, PC makers will be launching tablets, touchscreen laptops and hybrid devices. Here’s a rundown of the most interesting Windows 8 PCs we’ve heard about so far.
Computers running on the next version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system will go on sale in October.
Traditional methods of analyzing the new operating system’s performance won’t tell us all that much about what it’s like to use.
Big tech companies try lots of things. They don’t always work. Nothing wrong with that.
We may still be waiting for Windows 8, but it’s already accomplished one thing: It’s become the most surprising version of Windows ever. Even the pricing, it turns out, is a major departure from past editions.
Net Applications says that Internet Explorer retains a lead over all other browsers. Google appears to disagree.
Author Malcolm Gladwdell recently spoke at the Toronto Public Library and made some interesting observations about our entrepreneurial culture. The basis of his argument: humanitarians like Bill Gates will be remembered 50 years from now — there will be statues of him all over the third world. On the other hand, people won’t even remember what Microsoft was and entrepreneurs likes Steve Jobs will have faded from memory.
A European court on Wednesday upheld most of a massive fine levied against Microsoft by the European Commission’s competition watchdog, closing a case against the software giant that began in 1998.
Microsoft is paying $1.2 billion to buy Yammer, an Internet startup that has built a social network similar to Facebook for the business world.
The New York Times says that Microsoft worried that PC hardware makers would fail to come up with compelling iPad rivals on their own.
After a flurry of first impressions based on very little information, a tech site provides a slightly more well-rounded take on Microsoft’s upcoming tablet.
