ANAHEIM, CALIF. — In his keynote address yesterday at Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference, Bill Gates, the company’s chairman and chief software architect, announced the ...

In a decidedly more upbeat note than the somber, nationalistic launch of Windows XP last October, Microsoft put the spotlight on the official launch of the new operating system and related systems in ...

After months of prelaunch publicity, Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, which lets notebook users work with a digital pen instead of a keyboard.

Microsoft plans to drop the “Home” and “Pro” tags with the next release of Windows, code-named Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today’s Windows ...

In fact, the pen-computing market is filled with examples of much-hyped pen products and companies from the early 1990s that ended up in the "dust-bin of history," including Momenta, Go Computing ...

It’s been a year since Microsoft Corp. launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and declared a new chapter in the history of personal computing to be starting. The platform hasn’t caught on as fast as ...

A glitch in the latest version of Microsoft's Tablet PC software is causing significant performance problems for those running the new operating system, the company has confirmed. The bug is in the ...

From VieDigi, the first tablet PC with a 15-inch display. The INFINITI Smart Tablet isn’t technically a Tablet PC (it doesn’t run on the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software), but it does have a 1GHz ...

We have already seen Windows XP installed in many different places. The vintage operating system was officially introduced in 2001, and now, old enough that its last software update was released ...

InfoWorld on plans by StepUp Computing to introduce an $799 tablet computer called the DocuNote that doesn’t run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, but can run a version the Lindows OS. The DocuNote has an ...

In context: Windows XP is one of the most popular versions of Windows despite its quirks. Released in 2001, it was the definitive OS for an entire generation of kids for whom the "Bliss" wallpaper and ...