With $25, an iPad and a bit of curiosity, you can try Windows 8 on a tablet right now. Splashtop, a maker of remote desktop software, has released a $25 iPad app called Win8 Metro Testbed. If you’ve ...

According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft may discard its original plans to include support for desktop applications in their tablets. Instead, they would go for Metro ...

Splashtop on Thursday released a new tablet application that replicates the Windows 8 touch-driven Metro user interface on the iPad, which should help developers test applications for Microsoft’s next ...

When you look at the tablet landscape, it doesn't look like a very even battle going on. On one side you've got Apple, the Goliath, destroying the competition with its iPad. On the other side of the ...

I still can’t get used to using the words Windows and underdog in the same sentence. But when it comes to tablets, Windows 8 is still an also-ran: according to IDC, Windows and Windows RT tablets ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft will add its popular Outlook email program to more tablets running on a lightweight version of its Windows operating system as part of a free software update this year. The ...

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Developers have their hands on a pre-release version of Windows 8, which was released during Microsoft’s developer conference on Tuesday, and analyst and online opinion seem divided on the new ...

Dell expects both Windows 8 and Android to be credible options for tablet customers next year, and indicated it plans to offer products built around the two operating systems, a company executive said ...

If Microsoft's decision to give away 5,000 Samsung tablets running early versions of Windows 8 to developers at BUILD 2011 seems like an amazing gesture of goodwill, don't be fooled. Even the positive ...