I’ve been testing Windows 8 RTM on a tablet, and it’s clear that as a tablet operating system, Windows 8 is a winner. Here’s three reasons why it may be better than the iPad and Android tablets.

Windows 8 is an odd, discombobulated beast of an operating system that suffers from an identity crisis of the most severe degree. The good news, though -- if you're a tablet user, anyway -- is ...

Windows 8 includes touch-screen controls and displays applications in a mosaic of interactive tiles as part of an attempt to expand the system on to tablets. The operating system also remains ...

HTC said to be planning Windows tablet to rival Apple's iPad, Google's Android. HTC plans to make tablets based on the Windows operating system, giving Microsoft another ally in its challenge to Apple ...

Windows 8 is a PC operating system, so it does have a local file system with a file browser, and you can pick pictures there, but traditionally that doesn't give you access to those cloud pictures.

Unlike Windows 8, which Microsoft has been aggressively promoting with a series of free public previews, Windows RT won’t show itself until tablets powered by the operating system appear.

Microsoft announced general availability on March 1 of the final version of its Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system, codenamed "Chelan." Microsoft posted a 180-day trial version of the ...

At first blush, Microsoft's entry-level Surface tablet seems like a good value compared to the iPad and other tablets. That's because you get double the storage (32 GB versus 16 GB) for the same ...

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, won’t release a competitor to Apple Inc. and Google Inc.’s tablet operating systems until the 2012 back-to- school season, people with knowledge of ...

The tablet, slate and pad, or Apple iPad, category is barely hatched, but the operating system wars are well worth noting as mobile platforms move upstream and Windows 7 tries to go downstream.

Just as PCs and Macs run Microsoft Windows and MacOS X, so different tablets are based around different operating systems. The most popular of these is Apple's iOS found on the various iterations ...