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Microsoft on Monday announced the Surface tablet during a press conference in Los Angeles, California. Rumors leading up to the event suggested that the Redmond-based company had an own-brand tablet ...

Which Microsoft Surface tablet is best? Microsoft Surface tablets are often overlooked in favor of other traditional tablets, but they’re perfect for anyone who wants a lightweight device that can ...

Let's dive beneath the, uh, surface to see what, if anything, Microsoft's new Windows tablets have in common with their original Surface table namesakes. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry ...

Is a Microsoft Surface tablet priced at $499 good enough to entice you away from that Apple iPad you might be considering? That's the question Microsoft faces now that it has announced the starting ...

Surprise, surprise: Microsoft today officially unveiled its first branded tablet, the Windows 8-powered Microsoft Surface, at an event in Los Angeles. (Check out our live blog for the full rundown of ...

According to a pre-publication "backgrounder" in DigiTimes, Microsoft is planning to release a new Surface tablet in October. Given that Microsoft already launched the Surface 3 this year based on ...

"All in," Microsoft said today at an event in New York as it launched the latest offerings from the company: the new Windows 8 operating system, and its debut into the tablet market, the Microsoft ...