Launch Day: Microsoft’s Surface Pro 128 GB already selling out online Microsoft launched its Surface Pro tablet today, the first full-fledged Windows 8 machine developed by the company, and already the… Read More
Windows exec: Surface Pro isn’t expensive — you’re just thinking about it wrong Why did Microsoft price the new 64 GB Surface with Windows 8 Pro tablet at $899 without a keyboard? The… Read More
Surface Pro surfaces in stores — but sorry, there’s no Surface RT trade-in program It’s launch week for Surface with Windows 8 Pro — the new Microsoft tablet that uses an Intel Core i5… Read More
17-BIT’s new ‘Skulls of the Shogun’ bridges Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox 360 More than three years in the making, the new Skulls of the Shogun video game from Seattle-based indie game developer… Read More
Microsoft: Windows 8 launch hurt by ‘limited assortment’ of touch devices Computer makers have known for a long time that Microsoft’s Windows 8 would attempt to move the PC operating system… Read More
Microsoft Surface Pro coming Feb. 9, still $899 without keyboard Microsoft this morning announced a Feb. 9 release date for its upcoming Surface with Windows 8 Pro tablet, the version… Read More
Analyst: Microsoft Surface estimate cut in half to 1 million Analysts have been projecting sales numbers for Microsoft’s Surface and it isn’t looking good for the Redmond software giant. UBS… Read More
Windows Phone Diary: Week 1 of an uncertain relationship Let me start with what I love about my new Windows Phone. Then I’ll get to the rest. I am… Read More
Dell exec to Steve Ballmer: Please rename Windows RT At least one person wasn’t happy with the way Microsoft was naming its new ARM tablet operating system. Dell vice-chairman… Read More
Time’s top apps of 2012: WhitePages makes the cut with Current Caller ID It’s an age-old tradition in journalism to come up with top 10 lists at this time of year. And Time magazine… Read More
Tablet prediction: Microsoft to steal some thunder from Android and iPad by 2016 The latest tablet predictions from the IDC research firm is out and here’s the lowdown: Android is gaining traction while… Read More
Comments of the Week: Oprah ‘loves’ the Surface; Hastings’ Microsoft analysis; and more The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “[Microsoft has] many great assets and many great challenges.… Read More
Verizon shackles Surface: Microsoft’s new tablet deserves better than this During a trip to a Verizon Wireless store in Northern California earlier this week, I noticed a Windows 8 tablet… Read More
Santa, please bring me an iPad: 48% of kids want Apple’s tablet Yesterday, my three-year-old son looked at a review copy of a Surface tablet sitting on my desk and asked this… Read More
Outgoing board member Reed Hastings on the hurdles facing Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is stepping down from the Microsoft board later this month at the company’s annual meeting. And… Read More
Oprah sends Tweet about love of Microsoft Surface (from her iPad) Oh, the irony. Oprah gushed about her love of Microsoft’s new tablet computer, the Surface, with the following Tweet yesterday.… Read More
Dude, where’s my Surface space? User sues Microsoft over tablet storage One Los Angeles man is a little frustrated with the storage space on the Microsoft Surface. So much so, in… Read More
A 7-inch Xbox Surface? Yes, this makes a ton of sense Back in June, hours before Microsoft unveiled its new Surface tablet computer, a series of apparent leaks pointed to the… Read More
Microsoft Surface tested as balloting device in Virginia Here’s an interesting milestone for Microsoft Surface: One of the tablets is being tested in Virginia this week as a… Read More
Commentary: Microsoft Surface breaks out of the walled garden While working at Activision some 16 years ago, I negotiated with Microsoft to build out an Internet presence around our… Read More
VIDEO: Ballmer amps up developer crowd with Microsoft Surface giveaway No, he didn’t yell “developers, developers, developers” — maybe that’s too old-school at this point — but Microsoft CEO Steve… Read More
Ballmer on Apple: ‘We’ll give them a run for their money’ During an interview with Mashable today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked for his thoughts on Apple CEO Tim Cook’s… 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
Yes, there’s a line for Surface in Seattle — with lots of Microsofties in it OK, so I’m here at the University Village in Seattle, and there is in fact a line for Microsoft Surface,… Read More
Apple iPad sales miss estimates in latest quarter Apple sold 14 million iPads in its latest quarter, up 26 percent but still below the expectations of Wall Street… Read More
Microsoft Surface: The comeback story begins? Two days and counting, my new Surface will arrive. As an avid gadget guy, I’m pumped about this launch with… Read More
Poll: Would you buy a Microsoft Surface tablet? GeekWire’s Todd Bishop just made the leap. Will you? Microsoft is turning on the marketing engines for its new tablet… Read More
Steve Ballmer’s Oprah moment and other top stories of the month Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a page out of Oprah’s playbook at the company’s big company meeting in Seattle on… Read More
