Microsoft’s next Surface tablet wants to make difficult for iPad. Photo: Microsoft Microsoft plans to take on Apple’s popular 9.7-inch iPad with a low-cost Surface tablet, according to a new report.

On Thursday, Microsoft said it took a $900 million charge in its fiscal fourth quarter from what it described as "inventory adjustments" for the Surface RT tablet, which launched in October. The ...

Wanna buy one of Microsoft’s Surface RT tablets? Assuming you live in the U.S. or Canada, the company is now throwing in one of its Touch Cover or Type Cover keyboard add-ons at no extra charge. It’s ...

Microsoft said it had increased production of its Surface tablet running Windows RT, following earlier reports that it had cut its orders due to weak consumer demand. More significantly, the company ...

The dust has long since settled on Microsoft's secretive June 18 announcement, and the Surface for Windows RT "iPad killer" device has been shipping for nearly two months now. The first Microsoft ...

A few days ago, Qualcomm officially announced its next Arm-based PC CPU, the Snapdragon X Elite. The company's latest effort to take some CPU market share away from Intel and AMD in the Windows PC ...

This is an IHS iSuppli News Flash from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS) covering the IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service’s physical teardown of Microsoft Corp.’s Surface RT media ...

Microsoft (MSFT) has announced its fourth-quarter (Q2 calendar) and full-year earnings, and the news isn't fantastic. While its enterprise offerings continue to do well (the Server and Tools division ...

Over the years there have been so many times when Microsoft came up with a product that so nearly got it right, but which tanked in the market because the folks at Redmond had more of an eye to what ...