You may not have noticed, but most Windows 8.1 tablets run in 32-bit mode despite having a 64-bit processor. That's about to change. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including ...

Acer Iconia W3, shipping with Windows 8 Pro and a full-fledged copy of Office Home & Student 2013, is first mini-Win8 tablet out of the gate By all accounts, the Acer Iconia W3 won’t win any awards, ...

The Acer Iconia W3 flips Windows computing on its head, rotating the screen into an 8.1-inch, easy-to-hold, portrait form factor. This may seem like a trivial improvement, but it’s more significant ...

For those who want Windows on the cheap, tablets with the OS are now selling for under $100. These lightweight tablets aren’t exactly laptop replacements, but can serve as complementary devices for ...

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 ...

Windows 8 may be seeing sluggish demand, but Dell believes its the best OS for business tablets and plans to roll out more products built with the operating system later this year, a senior executive ...

Build quality seems nice, and all of my struggles so far have been attributable to my lack of knowledge of Windows 8+. Still and all, I think this is a steal for low tech people (more diplomatically: ...

At IFA 2014 in Berlin, Toshiba has shown off a 7-inch Windows 8.1 tablet that's heading to the UK with a £99 price tag. Such a price for what is essentially a full version of Windows 8.1 crammed into ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is to give away its Windows operating system to makers of smartphones and small tablets for consumers as it seeks to make more of an impact on those ...

Except, if it's your primary mail client, and you follow a mailto: link from the desktop, Windows thinks you don't have a mail app installed. They really need to sort out the dual personalities of ...