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Microsoft To Offer 80-Inch Windows 8 Tablets for Offices [Windows 8]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces plans about Xbox at CES 2010. Photo: Jon Snyder/WiredMore »

Windows 8 Boots So Fast You Can't Access the Boot Menu [Windows 8]

Windows 8 boots so blisteringly fast that it theoretically gives you only 200 milliseconds to access the boot menu. Fortunately, Microsoft has gone to the trouble of designing a whole new Boot Options menu so you don't have to punch F8 like a crazy person.More »

Here's How Windows 8 Works with Multiple Monitors [Windows 8]

Metro is irrefutably beautiful, but the imminence of Microsoft's bold new UI in Windows 8 has a lot of power users worried about just how they're going to be able to function with the new system. Judging by how multi-display systems seem to be working, the answer seems to be "more or less the sam...

What Google Could Learn from Windows 8 About User Experience [Windows 8]

Windows 8 is built on the idea that the web has great functions, but a lousy user experience—and it uses apps to pull everything into a bright, clean parallel world. FastCo Design's Austin Carr shows how Windows 8 will make using the web a better, more pleasant experience. More »

New Windows Computers Will Get a $15 Upgrade to Windows 8 [Windows 8]

With Ivy Bridge out, there's a ton of great new desktops, ultrabooks, and gaming rigs coming out over the next few months. But they're all under the shadow of the other major release, Windows 8. Good news for anyone taking the plunge, though: Windows 8 upgrades will be available for just $15 if y...

Intel: Windows 8 on ARM Is an Uphill Fight [Intel]

Windows 8 is stirring up a fair deal of controversy for Microsoft. Now, Intel has come out as saying that it thinks that running the new OS on ARM hardware is going to prove difficult.More »

Is Microsoft Planning to Limit Your Browser Choice on Windows 8 Tablets? (Updated) [Microsoft]

If you're used to freely choosing which browser you use in Windows, brace yourself: Mozilla is claiming that Microsoft is planning to limit user choice for browsers on tablets running Windows 8.More »

Why Microsoft's anti-iPad strategy will backfire

For more than a decade, Microsoft has failed in its tablet ambitions...

NPD: Apple iPad market share to decrease from 72.1% in 2012 to 50.9% in 2017

Shipments of tablet PCs are expected to grow from 81.6 million units...

Watch Out, Tim Cook! The Froaster Proves That Windows 8 Is Doing It Right! [Video]

Duringlast week’s earnings call Tim Cook was asked what he thought about Windows 8 being “optimized” for tablets. Cook humorously responded that, “anything can be forced to converge, but the problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to ...