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 ...

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Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Surprise, surprise: Microsoft today officially unveiled its first branded tablet, the Windows 8-powered Microsoft Surface, at an event in Los Angeles. (Check out our live blog for the full rundown of ...

Microsoft's slick Surface Pro tablets are seldom cheap, and this model is one of the best Copilot+ PCs I've tested. Here's why it's a big deal, in both senses of the word. From the laptops on your ...

The Microsoft Surface Go 2 is a fantastic little Windows tablet for entertainment and light workloads. The setup can become quite pricey once you throw in Microsoft's accessories, but it's still an ...

There’s only one question anyone should ask about Microsoft’s Surface tablet: Is it better than the iPad? I’ve spent the past week and a half trying to answer that question. During that time period, ...

The Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra and Surface Pro 8 seem pretty similar on the surface — no pun intended. They’re both premium tablets that start at $1,099.99, can transform into full-on laptops with a keyboard ...

Should you get an iPad or a Microsoft Surface? Microsoft and Apple have competed since the mid-1970s, with both amassing huge — and in some cases, intensely loyal — followings. Apple was the first to ...

Given this is the eighth major model, you'd assume the Surface Pro 8 is an iteration on top of the Surface Pro 7, with small steps and improvements to update the 2 in 1 to modern standards. And for ...