Five-finger multi-touch, 720p cameras and 1366-by-768 resolution screens will be among the requirements for Windows 8 tablets, according to documentation from Microsoft. Rafael Rivera, who blogs at ...

Does the weird world of Windows 8 confuse you? Come along for a rough guide to the various types of devices you're likely to see. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable ...

A Microsoft document that sets out the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 8 tablet devices provides some hints about what tablets running Microsoft's next-generation operating system could look ...

>Windows 8's shiny new touch interface won't just be coming to Intel-compatible computers; Microsoft showed it running on prototype ARM hardware at the Computex Taipei trade show. The company also ...

Windows 8 is here. In form and functionality, the new flagship operating system is the most dramatic makeover of Windows since its inception. Windows 8 was developed from the ground up with a ...

Microsoft dropped the hardware requirements for Windows 8 a month ago, but may of the choice bits were buried amongst the 1000-page sea of technical jargon and general obscura. The brave souls over at ...

Tim Greene envies designed-for-Windows-8 hardware: When [Windows 8] is finalized and installed on devices that were designed specifically to support it the experience should be better. … In the ...

I am generally pleased with PC pricing. Windows netbooks start around $200 and functioning laptops come in at about a hundred bucks more. But the first wave of Windows 8 devices breaks that pattern.

In a post today on a Microsoft blog, Vice President on the Windows Development team, Chuck Chan, touted the release of the Windows 8 Release Preview to the Windows Dev Center. The blog post seems to ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Release Candidate is on tap and analysts are busy trying to handicap the financial implications. The reality is that Windows 8 is tricky for the beancounters to model given the ...