10.6-inch devices running Windows 8, the "Surface" tablets borrow their name from Microsoft's table-sized computer that has been an impressive yet niche product for the past few years.

June 21, 2012 — -- Last year I sat down with Mike Angiulo, Microsoft's corporate VP of Windows Planning, Hardware and PC Ecosystem. (Long title, but he leads the team that makes sure Windows ...

The launch of Surface Pro is Microsoft's most important attempt to build a tablet device. But the company has been trying to get this right for a long, long time.

Reflections on tablet screens can reduce the contrast needed to read type, so Microsoft took a "three-pronged" approach with the Surface display. "First prong, Microsoft has the best pixel rendering ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has unveiled the Surface, the company’s new tablet. Ballmer told a crowd in Los Angeles, “much like Windows 1.0 needed the mouse to complete the ...

The Surface 1.0 lived for three years before a new model took over in 2011: the Samsung SUR40. That next-gen model got a price cut, retailing at $8,400, and comes with improved specs like a 40 ...

Panos Panay, head of the Microsoft hardware team that built Surface, showed off the tablet at a launch event in New York on Thursday. When it unveiled its Surface tablet, Microsoft pulled off ...

It should. Now Microsoft is attempting to enter the touchscreen tablet space with Windows 8 and the Surface RT, at a time when arguably only Apple’s iPad has made more than a dent in the ...

It's mostly forgotten by history now, but the name "Microsoft Surface," now referring to Microsoft's line of actually very good tablets and laptops, originally belonged to a line of 30-inch mega ...

After all, Windows 1.0 famously flopped. And in two weeks, the company will launch its Intel-powered Surface Pro tablet , which could point to the true future of Microsoft . See More : ...

“Surface is an exciting product, and it brings buzz to Windows.” Buzz may help Surface and Windows 8 get off to a good start, but that’s all. Both the tablet and the software will ultimately be ...

Microsoft's original Surface wasn't a tablet but a table. They're hard to find these days, but we got one and gave it the ol' retro-review treatment.