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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 ...

After keeping the tech world on the edge of its seat for days in anticipation of a "major" secret announcement, Microsoft unveiled Monday the Surface, its first-ever homegrown tablet PC. The new ...

Surface Pro X is Microsoft’s chief rival for the iPad Pro. A new version should offer improved performance. Microsoft unveiled a faster version of the Surface Pro X on Thursday. This updated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is entering the tablet space with its own line of hardware. Microsoft Surface tablets will come in two versions. There will be Windows RT model with an ARM-based processor for light weight ...

When Microsoft announced its original Surface tablets last year, expectations, pretty much by definition, were high. After almost 40 years as a supplier of software to PC companies, Microsoft was ...