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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 ...

According to a pre-publication "backgrounder" in DigiTimes, Microsoft is planning to release a new Surface tablet in October. Given that Microsoft already launched the Surface 3 this year based on ...

When Microsoft announced its original Surface tablets last year, expectations, pretty much by definition, were high. After almost 40 years as a supplier of software to PC companies, Microsoft was ...

Microsoft is reportedly working on a successor tablet to the Surface 3 -- but they're slashing battery life in the name of making the device lighter. This is one rumor we're hoping isn't true. Share ...