Five years ago, on November 7 2002, Microsoft launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Bill Gates himself was on-hand to launch the new platform at a large press event. “The launch of the Tablet PC ...

Google’s presence in tablets has long consisted of its Android smartphone OS stretched to fit larger displays. The marriage has been an unhappy one, leaving Apple’s iPad and even Windows 2-in-1 ...

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The Tablet PC OS platform from Microsoft…anyone remember that? It was that great operating system from Microsoft that had all the tablet functions we were all clamoring for? Its that other system…you ...

At the New York launch this week, ISVs plan to demonstrate applications integrated with the Tablet PC OS, including Adobe Systems' Tablet PC plug-in for Acrobat, Corel's Grafigo 1.0, Autodesk's ...

Intel has posted a demonstration of its Linux-based Meego OS for tablet computers via a YouTube video that shows the OS’s multitouch support, multitasking and integrated social networking. The video, ...

The vendors used the PC Expo show, held here this week, to show beta software, prototype Tablet PCs and new applications. The Tablet PC, first unveiled publicly at Comdex Fall in 2000 by Bill Gates, ...

Senior executives at Taiwan PC maker Acer took swipes at Microsoft during an event this week marking the first anniversary of the software giant's Tablet PC operating system. Acer President Wang ...

Microsoft is aiming its new operating system for pen-based, "tablet" computing at the mainstream corporate market, but the first buyers are likely to be businesses with specific requirements. Although ...

Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, has become the latest company to back Mozilla’s Firefox OS and is developing more than five devices running the mobile operating system ...

Ian King and Dina Bass channel their deep throats: Microsoft … will preview its Windows operating system designed for tablet computers … next week, according to three people with knowledge of the ...

Senior executives at Taiwan PC maker Acer took swipes at Microsoft during an event this week marking the first anniversary of the software giant's Tablet PC operating system. Acer President Wang ...