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 ...

The HP Compaq TC1100 is only 10 years old, but in mobile computing years, it’s laughably archaic. Running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, this device practically dared its owners to enter text without ...

Windows XP Tablet PC (2002) At the turn of the century, Microsoft had been trying to release a Windows tablet for years (it has been trying ever since and will try again with Windows 8). In 2002, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tablet computing has a long and tortured evolution. We can trace its roots all the way back to 1915. That’s when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent for a handwriting recognition ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates here for the launch. Acer, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba are among the companies making the new tablet PCs, which are similar to notebook PCs. Most of the devices ...

According to Microsoft 's announcement, Windows XP' s regular OEM licensing will be closed on January 31, 2008. Along with this, production of PCs equipped with Windows XP from PC manufacturers will ...

Rumors were running rampant when it came to guessing which vendor would be next to dip its toes in the rather tepid waters of the tablet market. Some said Apple, others Dell. It turns out that ...

Manufacturers are having a field day with their new tablet PCs. Top vendors Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba say sales of their tablet PCs--tiny portable computers fitted with pens, touch screens and ...