A weekend with Microsoft’s Surface 2: Nice improvements, but not a giant leap A tech reporter who has been using Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S, both running iOS 7, recently mentioned to… Read More
Surface Diary: What should Microsoft do now? Here’s the view from my house Last fall, I purchased a Surface RT tablet for my family, taking the money we had originally set aside for… Read More
Is that a Surface under the tree? 6 tips for new Microsoft tablet owners Congratulations! Someone loved you enough to give you the gift of a Microsoft Surface with Windows RT. I’m imagining you… Read More
Surface Diary: Microsoft’s tablet finds a home in our house As many of you predicted, my decision to spend my family’s iPad budget on a Microsoft Surface is causing some… Read More
Microsoft Surface Diary: Here’s my keyboard advice One of the big decisions people have to make when considering a Microsoft Surface tablet involves the keyboards: Which one… Read More
Microsoft Surface Diary: Bing, SmartGlass and settling in with our tablet Here’s a good sign: For the last couple of mornings, I’ve gone looking for my family’s Microsoft Surface tablet —… Read More
Microsoft Surface Diary: ‘Remind me how you control this thing again?’ Before my family started using our new Microsoft Surface tablet, we spent a little time going over the navigation techniques… Read More
Microsoft Surface Day 3: Hardware, Skype, and trying to link Surface to iPhone Microsoft’s new Surface tablet is the first computer developed end-to-end by the longtime software company. So how is the hardware? Equal… Read More
Microsoft Surface Day 2: Setting up our new ‘iPad’ In my house, our gadgets tend to go by alternative names that speak to the ways certain members of the… Read More
Microsoft Surface Day 1: The unboxing and bootup My family’s new Microsoft Surface — the one that I convinced my wife to buy instead of an iPad —… Read More
No pressure, Microsoft, but I just spent my family’s iPad budget on a $599 Surface The stakes for Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Surface launch just got a lot higher, at least in my house. Here’s… Read More