This Black Friday, Microsoft broke with tradition by offering record-low prices across all configurations, but exclusively through Amazon. The Surface Pro with Snapdragon X Plus processor, 16GB RAM, and 512GB storage has dropped to $749, down from $1,199 (40% ooff). You’re saving here $450 on hardware that normally holds its value.

Bill Gates proudly displayed a pioneering Microsoft tablet device way back in 2000, but it never really took off.

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 applications, according to a report by research firm Canalys.

After keeping the tech world on the edge of its seat for days in anticipation of a "major" secret announcement, Microsoft unveiled Monday the Surface, its first-ever homegrown tablet PC. The new gadget, which has unexpectedly hurled the software giant into ...

NEW YORK - With the unveiling of the Surface tablet, Microsoft is heading into unusual territory: competing with its partners, the same companies that make Windows PCs. But Microsoft has little to lose, since PC manufacturers have so far had little success ...

HP, Acer and Toshiba launched tablet-PC hardware at the same time that Microsoft launched its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, but after a promising start, sales have fallen sharply with analysts and manufacturers blaming Microsoft for charging too much for its operating system.

Microsoft is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like UI while navigating through your game library on a PC with a controller, to laptops, desktops, and tablets. FSE launched with the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, and it has so far only been available on PC handhelds.

Microsoft’s Surface tablet is a measured gamble to enter the cutthroat tablet business, but the company could be alienating longtime hardware partners that are also expected to announce Windows 8 devices starting later this year. The Surface tablet ...