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.

Microsoft on Monday announced the Surface tablet during a press conference in Los Angeles, California. Rumors leading up to the event suggested that the Redmond-based company had an own-brand tablet in store, and a leaked spec sheet that emerged on Monday ...

Which Microsoft Surface tablet is best? Microsoft Surface tablets are often overlooked in favor of other traditional tablets, but they’re perfect for anyone who wants a lightweight device that can function as a laptop. Microsoft Surface tablets are high ...

The Surface Pro 12-Inch measures just 0.30 by 10.8 by 7.5 inches (HWD) and weighs a remarkably totable 1.5 pounds. That's about half the weight of a clamshell ultraportable laptop, which makes sense, given that this is roughly half the size of a laptop, thanks to its tablet design.

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 ...

Microsoft Monday unveiled a pair of tablet computers dubbed "Surface" in a bold move that thrusts the world's largest software company into uncharted hardware waters. Microsoft said the tablets would be sold in Microsoft retail stores in the U.S. and ...

The company's own upcoming Windows 8 tablet could stifle the incentive among partners to develop similar hardware for the new operating system. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time ...

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In this video, we compare the durability of the new M4 iPad Pro, Apple's thinnest tablet, with the Microsoft Surface Pro 11, which offers a full PC experience in tablet form. This is done through a JerryRigEverything Durability test.

Let's dive beneath the, uh, surface to see what, if anything, Microsoft's new Windows tablets have in common with their original Surface table namesakes. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ...