Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley. According ...

Windows 8 is an odd, discombobulated beast of an operating system that suffers from an identity crisis of the most severe degree. On the one hand, the primary focus of Windows 8 is to bring ...

In the two and a half years since the release of the first-generation iPad, tablets of various shapes and sizes have sparked a revolution among consumers, who are now no longer afraid to take their ...

Today at Computex, Acer rolled out a pair of Windows 8 tablets designed to provide astrong performance, battery life and functioality. Reminiscent of the Android-based Eee Pad Transformer series, Acer ...

If MS-DOS, Windows, Android, the IBM PC, $99 TouchPad, and $200 Kindle Fire have taught us anything about technology, it's that being cheaper -- if not better -- than the competition is one of the ...

Windows 8 offers one key mobility feature: it’s easy on the battery life of tablets. In fact it’s so important that Microsoft has a separate category of Windows 8 called Windows on ARM (WOA) that ...

A Microsoft document that sets out the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 8 tablet devices provides some hints about what tablets running Microsoft's next-generation operating system could look ...

Developers have their hands on a pre-release version of Windows 8, which was released during Microsoft’s developer conference on Tuesday, and analyst and online opinion seem divided on the new ...

Buying a new Windows 8 device isn’t as simple as, say, picking up a new Android tablet. The device-spanning nature of the overhauled operating system means Windows works on a vast array of hardware, ...

If Microsoft's decision to give away 5,000 Samsung tablets running early versions of Windows 8 to developers at BUILD 2011 seems like an amazing gesture of goodwill, don't be fooled. Even the positive ...

Apple may have opened the door to the tablet market when it launched the original iPad in 2010, but according to Forrester, it may have already closed for the firm's rivals. The latest look into ...