October 21, 2015 'Windows 8.1' may ship in 2013, receive annual updates New iterations of Windows usually take several years to develop and release to the public, but those days may soon be behind us.
October 21, 2015 Microsoft plans to launch payments service on Windows 10 soon Have a Windows device? Get ready to pay. According to Re/Code, Microsoft is gearing up to launch its own mobile payment option for Windows phones and tablets.
October 19, 2015 IBM goes Apple: Helpdesk calls way down compared to Windows IBM, at one time a Windows PC heavyweight, is now deploying Macs internally and is seeing a precipitous drop in helpdesk calls.
October 16, 2015 Microsoft will pay you to switch from Mac Windows 10 has not been the boost PC vendors were hoping for. Reports from both Gartner and IDC earlier this week suggested that PC sales fell between 7% and 11% year over year in the third quarter, which is a huge hit considering the wave of new hardware that has been released over the past few months. With vendors seemingly running out of options in their attempts to stir up interest in their wares, Microsoft has stepped in with a new offer aimed at incentivizing users to upgrade to a new Windows 10 desktop or laptop.
January 13, 2015 Ultrabooks? Not this year. Analysts cut sales estimates in half With 2012 entering its closing quarter, the ultrabook phenomenon hasn't performed quite as phenomenally as expected -- and analysts are downgrading forecasts.
November 20, 2014 In pictures: Windows 8, Microsoft's most radical OS yet Microsoft will release Windows 8 on Oct. 26, the final version of the touch-powered operating system -- a collision of worlds that the company hopes will bring the desktop PC into the era of tablets.
