Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows 8
Qualcomm is planning to launch Windows 8 notebooks with quad-core Snapdragon S4 chips later this year. The offerings are said to be lighter and thinner than Apple’s MacBook Air and will rival second generation ultrabooks, says Rob Chandhok, senior vice president of Qualcomm.

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows 8
Apple may be coy on touchscreen MacBooks, but PC manufacturers are tipped to be gung-ho on touch-enabled Windows 8 ultrabooks, with a range of form-factors and designs expected later in 2012. Lenovo, Asus and Acer are all said to have finger-friendly models in the pipeline, DigiTimes reports, though...

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Acer, Lenovo, Windows 8
CES Las Vegas is just around the corner, but, similar to years past, we already know some of the hot items that will be on show in Sin City. Last year, we saw numerous dual-core smartphones and more Android tablets than we care to remember. This year, we're expecting to see Ultrabooks, some quad-core...

Notebooks, Desktop Computers, Microsoft
While hackers have been having their way with the Kinect on the PC for a long, long time, Microsoft itself has only recently embraced this sort of behavior. First it was with an official SDK and then, soon after, a follow-up letting things go commercial. We've been eagerly awaiting Office integration...

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Intel, Windows 8
Ultrabooks -- Intel's label for thin laptops with an edgy design à la the MacBook Air -- with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS are due to reach market next year, and the OS could help propel demand for the devices, an Intel executive said this week.

More than 60 Ultrabook designs could become...

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Tablets, Microsoft, Intel, Windows 8
Intel plans to show Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 on tablets based on new Atom processors, and on ultrabooks, at both the Intel Developer Forum and Microsoft's Build conference this week, according to a source familiar with Intel's plans.

Intel will show off Windows 8 ultrabooks and other devices...

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft, RIM BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, PlayBook
We're taking this with a grain of salt, since it applies only to users of the cross-platform Appcelerator Titanium development environment, but it appears that Windows Phone 7 is facing an increasingl...

Notebooks, Microsoft
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's global chief research and strategy officer, is one of the many company's employees charged with trying to gauge what computers will be like in the future. Almost every consum...

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Fujitsu, Windows 7, STYLISTIC Q550
Fujitsu Launches a Windows 7 Tablet for €699 : There’s no shortage of Android tablets available, so when it comes to slates running Windows, Redmond is a little outnumbered. Today Fujitsu threw is thr...

Notebooks, Microsoft
Bloomberg reported today that Microsoft is busy porting Windows to the ARM-based chips that dominate the smartphone and tablet market. If true, that would likely mean no possibility of future WP7 tabl...

Notebooks, Microsoft
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is reportedly ready to unveil a handful of tablet devices when he takes the stage to deliver his keynote presentation at CES 2011. The devices to be presented include table...

Notebooks, Cell Phones, Microsoft
Microsoft Menlo project will be a Windows CE-based mobile device capable of running Silverlight applications, including the breadcrumb application Greenfield.

Notebooks, Microsoft
Mary Jo Foley had us all fired up about the potential of Microsoft's mysterious Menlo, but it appears that the project's not yet a groundbreaking

Notebooks, Cell Phones, Microsoft
Microsoft wants to let people know where it stands in the mobile, media and computing space as Apple and Google get a lot of press.

Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft
Windows XP has survived a whole lot longer than it ought to have - predominantly after getting a second lease of life on low-powered netbooks - and while