ANAHEIM, CALIF. — In his keynote address yesterday at Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference, Bill Gates, the company’s chairman and chief software architect, announced the ...

In a decidedly more upbeat note than the somber, nationalistic launch of Windows XP last October, Microsoft put the spotlight on the official launch of the new operating system and related systems in ...

After months of prelaunch publicity, Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, which lets notebook users work with a digital pen instead of a keyboard.

Consider two platforms: a MacBook Pro 15' running OS X and a HP-Compaq TC4200 running Windows XP Tablet PC 2005. Of these two, which one accentuates a student's learning experience more? When I say ...

Microsoft plans to drop the “Home” and “Pro” tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today’s Windows ...

The HP Compaq TC1100 is only 10 years old, but in mobile computing years, it’s laughably archaic. Running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, this device practically dared its owners to enter text without ...

So what makes Tablet PCs more expensive than their laptop counterparts? Some say it’s the OS, while others claim it’s the extra hardware. Either way, it’s about to get cheaper, as Bill Gates himself ...

In fact, the pen-computing market is filled with examples of much-hyped pen products and companies from the early 1990s that ended up in the "dust-bin of history," including Momenta, Go Computing ...

One year after Microsoft launched its tablet PC operating system, sales have been disappointing, the choice of models is still poor, and software developers have no incentive to create specialist ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates here for the launch. Acer, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are among the companies making the new tablet PCs, which are similar to notebook PCs. Most of the devices ...

Microsoft and its PC partners are producing a seemingly endless variety of tablets, from 8-inch slates that can practically fit into a (large) pocket to 10-inch tablets that still aren’t quite ideal ...