There is no doubt that the Microsoft Surface range of devices have been a success. The reason is apparent! People needing little computing resources got what they can say – a good portable OS – that ...

Tablet PCs, the portable computers with pen-based abilities, have been around since November 2002, but so far have not been widely embraced by consumers or businesses. The devices made up fewer than 2 ...

The word "tablet" used to refer to a flat slab for bearing an inscription. Leave it to the tech industry to make it into something far more complicated and confusing. Scores of products marketed as ...

With their growing popularity and convenient portability, tablet PCs are often a worthwhile investment for business owners who are constantly on the go. However, along with these advantages come a ...

For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been subscribing a cure for PC users who don't want to type on a keyboard to take notes during a meeting. Take a tablet - a tablet PC that is. A number of ...

Tablets have been around for a while, but with a new breed emerging that rival ordinary laptops, these convertibles could represent the new standard. We examine five of the best. In June 2003 we ...

When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates introduced the first tablet PC prototypes at the 2001 Comdex trade show in Las Vegas he predicted the devices would become the most popular form of PCs within five ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Tablet PCs remain a niche product in the marketplace, used predominantly in vertical applications,” said Leslie Fiering, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in a recent conference presentation. The tablet ...