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Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced significant changes to the leadership team. As a result of the changes, the software giant will lose Tony Bates and Tami Reller, who played significant roles at Microsoft in the recent years. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft, wants to ensure that the senior …

Developed initially for desktop personal computers, Windows operating system is now used on laptops, tablets, 2-in-1s and smartphones. Microsoft Corp. claims that it will not stop evolving its OS and eventually there will be Windows for ultra-small devices. The OS will be specifically tailored for the best user experience on …

Sony Corp. is going to cease using Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system as a result of its planned exit from the personal computer business later this year. But as the company intends to continue with making smartphones and tablets, it will consider other OSes from Microsoft, according to the chief …

Microsoft Corp.’s Surface series of media and business tablets is staring to gain traction on the market. According to the company’s latest financial results, sales of Surface doubled in the second quarter of the fiscal 2014 (calendar Q4 2013). Unfortunately, the slates still bring only losses to the software giant. …

I was surprised in late November to see the HTC HD2 running Windows Phone 8. Afterall, the Windows Mobile 6.5 device was released only a few months before the launch of Windows Phone 7 in March 2010. The HD2 has a massive developer community behind it and has also had …

Nokia is currently hard at work on a Windows RT tablet of its own that will likely be announced at Mobile World Congress in late February and more details have been revealed. The Verge has learned that it will have a 10.1 inch display and include, or at least be …

Nokia has been teasing its own Windows RT based tablet as early as March when Nokia's lead designer, Marko Ahtisaari, was said to be spending up to a third of his time working on a tablet design. No results have come of this week just yet but reports are now …

Steve Jobs is well known for completely disregarding the 7 inch tablet form factor in the past. Jobs was quote as saying that “7-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with the iPad. 7-Inch tablets are dead on arrival.” Now, it appears that Microsoft …

At Computex earlier in the year ASUS unveiled the Tablet 810 and Tablet 600. These two devices were running Windows 8 and Windows RT respectively. Yesterday at IFA these tablets have reappeared, but have been renamed to the Vivo Tab and Vivo Tab RT. Both tablets will have an option …

Toshiba have canceled their plans to make Windows RT devices because of delays in getting the components they need. Microsoft have however named four other PC makers who will offer devices using their new Windows operating system. Dell, Asus, Samsung and Lenovo will be making computers using Windows RT – …

A few days ago Microsoft announced their Surface tablets, which on the outside look rather impressive but like all great men we consider the internals more important. The Windows RT Surface tablet (the one running on an ARM processor) will be powered by a Tegra processor from Nvidia. The processor …