Emirates Airline - one of the world's largest carriers - is also getting in on the tablet action, but it's eschewing the all-too-familiar iPad in favour of slates running Windows 8 instead.

A Microsoft document that sets out the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 8 tablet devices provides some hints about what tablets running Microsoft's next-generation operating system could ...

My blog last week, "University Deploying Thousands of Windows 8 Tablets Is Smart Tactics, Flawed Strategy," generated quite a bit of reader reaction. I'm actually quite excited about what ...

An earlier tablet that ran the Windows 8 operating system. In addition to vendors such as HP, Dell and Samsung, Microsoft also makes Windows tablets (see Surface tablet).

The tablet features the optional HP ElitePad Smart Jacket for connectivity options... Dell has abandoned its smartphone business in order to go after the lucrative Windows 8 tablet department.

But now reports are circulating that the one big thing Windows 8 would do is allow Microsoft and its partners to build smaller, cheaper tablets, in the 7-10-inch range. So says Ben Bajarin ...