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November 4, 2015

Watch out, iPad? Microsoft Surface tablet to cost $499

Microsoft is pricing its Surface Windows 8 tablet at $499 for the base model -- in line with the pricing of Apple’s iPad, where the base model costs $499 for a 16-gigabyte iPad.

November 4, 2015

Why can’t your computer stream 4K yet? Crazy compression and piracy

Kill All Pixels is a column about high-pixel-density computer displays published every other Wednesday.

November 4, 2015

Go directly to fail: Worst tech product ideas ever

Spray-on hair. New Coke. Pat Boone's heavy metal album. Some products are such bad ideas that some executive must have been snorting canned air before letting them out the door.

November 4, 2015

Should a Chromebook be your next laptop?

Chromebooks are laptops that run Google's Chrome operating system.

November 4, 2015

Computer shipments fell 7 percent to punctuate unprecedented drop in annual sales

Personal computer sales sank even further during the holiday shopping season, capping the steepest annual decline in PC shipments since desktop and laptop machines began to appear on people's wish lists decades ago.

November 4, 2015

Windows 8.1 is a worthy upgrade, with a few glitches

The ability to boot directly to the Desktop?

November 4, 2015

Facing end of PC era, Intel scrambles

Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of chips for PCs, put a brave face on the decline of the global PC sales earlier this year, saying it still expected its own sales to grow. On Wednesday, it backtracked, saying sales will be flat.

November 4, 2015

Microsoft fixes critical Internet Explorer flaws

This month's Patch Tuesday round of Microsoft software updates will fix a pair of critical Internet Explorer flaws that put every current consumer version of Windows at risk of being attacked.

November 4, 2015

Windows 8, innovative Surface tablet fail to help Microsoft

Microsoft's latest quarterly earnings slipped, even as the world's largest software maker showed modest progress adapting to a shift away from the personal computers that have been its financial foundation for decades.

November 4, 2015

Why you can ignore Windows 8

Windows 8 will add some new functions as well as a snazzy, zippy touch interface made of tiles and images. It's much more attractive and flexible than anything Apple has offered to date -- but it's too late and ill-suited for many users.