Tablets are a great balance between laptops and mobile devices, with the portability of a smartphone and the processing capabilities of a laptop. Recent tablets are more powerful and lighter than ...

At the New York launch this week, ISVs plan to demonstrate applications integrated with the Tablet PC OS, including Adobe Systems' Tablet PC plug-in for Acrobat, Corel's Grafigo 1.0, Autodesk's ...

The vendors used the PC Expo show, held here this week, to show beta software, prototype Tablet PCs and new applications. The Tablet PC, first unveiled publicly at Comdex Fall in 2000 by Bill Gates, ...

Canonical has introduced the Ubuntu tablet interface, which will compete with Android, iOS and Windows with its own take on multitasking and advanced security features. The launch is the next step in ...

One year after Microsoft launched its tablet PC operating system, sales have been disappointing, the choice of models is still poor, and software developers have no incentive to create specialist ...

Despite repeated assertions from Microsoft that there won’t be a new version of the Tablet PC operating system until Longhorn, the next overhaul of Windows, comes out (which could be 2005), Chris ...

Senior executives at Taiwan PC maker Acer took swipes at Microsoft during an event this week marking the first anniversary of the software giant's Tablet PC operating system. Acer President Wang ...

Hewlett-Packard’s purchase of Palm could redefine the PC maker’s mobile OS strategy, potentially impacting the company’s reliance on Microsoft operating systems. HP announced plans to acquire Palm on ...

Microsoft isn’t about to tell you that the upcoming release of the Tablet PC OS is the next generation of the Tablet architecture — that would be admitting that there was something wrong with the ...