Brien puts the new tiered storage feature through the ringer to see what hidden hardware requirements are needed to run smoothly.
According to insider sources, Microsoft's Windows 8 upgrade, scheduled for release on Oct. 17, has hit the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone.
The first major update to Microsoft's embedded operating system for intelligent devices, Windows Embedded 8 Industry, will reach original equipment manufacturers on Oct. 18, Microsoft announced late last week.
Microsoft faces a class-action lawsuit over its Surface RT sales disclosures.
Microsoft is developing a second-generation Surface tablet product line, a press report suggests.
Executives from ASUSTek Computer Inc. and Acer Inc. announced this week that their companies are planning to decrease production of some of their Windows-based PCs and tablet devices.
Organizations may want to consider using Chromebooks, according to a new study.
Is the demise of the PC exaggerated or inevitable? And once gone extinct, what's next for the enterprise?
Microsoft has dropped the price for all of its consumer-oriented productivity tablets running Windows RT by $150.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/15/2013
The worldwide PC market declined by about 11 percent, year over year.
With half of employees projected to be using their own devices in the enterprise by 2017, Microsoft is taking BYOD into consideration with its next line of products.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/03/2013
Microsoft added volume licensing and Software Assurance options to some of its Windows Embedded 8 products on Monday.
Microsoft announced today that group of high-volume U.S. resellers are authorized to sell its Surface devices under a new program.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/01/2013
Brien discusses how the BYOD movement may be leading towards IT requiring employees to bring their own personal devices to work.
Microsoft announced a plan to open "Windows Stores" inside Best Buy locations across North America.
A survey of Redmond readers suggests a long road ahead for Windows 8 and the cloud -- but also reveals that tablets aren't poised to replace PCs in the workplace.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/08/2013
Microsoft executives talked up Windows 8.1 and its mobile operating systems at the Computex keynote address on Wednesday.
IDC updated its five-year forecasts for the PC and tablet markets today.
Brien shares his experience of beefing up thse size of his virtual drives with physical storage.
Due to reader reaction, Brien clarifies exactly what is missing on the RT version of Microsoft Office 2013.