By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to announce its second generation Surface tablets during its Build Developer Conference in June. The company is apparently preparing to launch the tablet with a screen size that measures between 7 inches and 9 inches, DigiTimes said Thursday. Component suppliers have allegedly already…
By Todd Haselton |
Remember the Microsoft Zune? It was a media player that was ultimately launched to compete with the iPod and has since been retired. Then Microsoft tried a bizarre mobile experiment with the Kin One and Kine Two phones, two devices that hardly ever spent time…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft’s Surface RT and Surface with Windows 8 Pro tablets currently have 10.6-inch displays, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft isn’t interested in going smaller. The company’s chief financial officer Peter Klein said that it’s actually very possible for Microsoft to release smaller Windows Surface tablets,…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft may have shipped as many as 1.25 million Surface RT units to its partners last quarter, but it’s not selling a bunch of them. According to new research from IHS iSuppli provided to CNET, Surface sales were “significantly lower, maybe on the order of…
By Ron Duwell |
Costco may soon join Best Buy and Staples as a primary retailer of Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet, according to a leaked shot of the retailer’s inventory system. The device is still expected to sell for $499.99 without a Touch Cover, although Costco will apply a…
By Todd Haselton |
NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor powers the current generation Microsoft Surface RT, so it seems like a natural fit for Microsoft to sign NVIDIA on again for the next-generation Surface. Digitimes expects NVIDIA to become a go-to player in the Surface RT market, and believes that…
By Brandon Russell |
Expect Microsoft’s Surface for Windows 8 Pro to hit on Jan. 26, according to one retail store employee. CNET said it made calls to Microsoft stores around the country and got vague “end of month” responses. But one store employee in particular felt the need…
By Todd Haselton |
If you live in the U.K. and want a Microsoft Surface RT, chances are you have only been able to purchase the device online. That’s no longer the case, however, as the tablet is now popping up in retail stores. Slashgear recently noticed that local retailer John…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it’s expanding retail distribution of is Surface RT tablet. In the trenches of the holiday season, and the new year only a few weeks away, it’s about time. The company must have realized that such limited availability wasn’t so good…
By Todd Haselton |
The Microsoft Surface RT appears to be off to a slow start. At least, off to a slower start than Google’s brand new Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. According to a new report from Chitika published on Tuesday, Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet was only…
By Brandon Russell |
Microsoft’s decision to sell its Surface exclusively through Microsoft Stores is hugely impacting sales in a negative way. According to Detwiler Fenton, a Boston brokerage firm, the device has been received poorly by consumers, with sales falling well below holiday expectations. “Lack of distribution is…
By Killian Bell |
When Microsoft announced its new Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets, they were seen as a potentially damaging move to third-party PC makers, whose own Windows-powered tablets may not fare so well against first-party hardware. However, Hewlett-Packard’s Head of PC, Todd Bradley, isn’t worried about…
By Killian Bell |
Barnes & Noble made its Nook application available to Windows 8 and Windows RT users on Wednesday morning by releasing it to the Windows Store. The application comes just over a month after Microsoft invested $300 million into Barnes & Noble for a 17.6% stake…
By Brandon Russell |
We had a suspicion that Windows RT took up a lot of space on Microsoft’s new Surface, and now it’s been confirmed. According to Microsoft, the software, which includes Windows RT, Microsoft Office and built-in apps, takes up exactly half of the 32GB Surface’s overall…
By Killian Bell |
It’s not often Microsoft turns its focus to hardware, but it did so to produce the new Surface tablet this year, which has gotten off to a rather successful start. With the hope of continuing that success, Microsoft is now looking to produce its own…
By Killian Bell |
Microsoft’s new Surface RT tablet is finally reaching customers in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The device made its public debut in the United States on October 26, but delays have left international customers waiting a further six days for their pre-order to be…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft recently introduced its Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 operating systems. There were lines outside of Microsoft’s stores for consumers who were interested in purchasing the Windows RT-based Surface tablet, a rare sight for Microsoft, and Windows 8, in my opinion, is…
By Brandon Russell |
Out of a pool of 1,200 adults, 52 percent said they’d never heard of Windows 8 leading up to last week’s release. For all of Microsoft’s wining and dining of the tech-savvy crowd — we’ve known about Windows 8 for ages now — it seems…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R is back to tackle more questions and queries from Buffalo readers, viewers and fans! In this episode, Jon focuses on the subject of tablets. Jon provides consumer advice regarding whether or not you should upgrade your New iPad (aka. iPad 3) the recently…
By Brandon Russell |
For years, Microsoft has cast a brooding shadow among the tech elite. But the company, content to ride out Xbox and PC success, seemed to rest on its laurels as the smartphone and tablet market took hold. And then came the Surface, a completely fresh…
By Todd Haselton |
The folks at iFixit recently took their screw drivers to the new Microsoft Surface tablet. The tinkerers confirmed most of what we already know about the tablet’s specs: it’s equipped with a 10.6-inch ClearType HD display, a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 2GB of RAM,…
By Killian Bell |
With Windows Phone 8 now just hours away, Microsoft has launched a new app that will allow you to sync your shiny new smartphone with your Windows 8 or Windows RT computers and tablets, including the recently released Surface. It’s available to download now from…
By Jon Rettinger |
Unlike most products we’ve seen this year, Microsoft’s Surface announcement was a bonafide surprise. In a market where tablets were merely playing catch up to Apple’s iPad, the Redmond company deviated from the norm while promising a Brave New World. Several months later and the…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft’s Surface tablet, powered by Windows RT, is now available for purchase. If you didn’t have a chance to pre-order one you can find one in any of Microsoft’s pop-up stores around the country, or head over to its website to order a device for…
