Bill Gates proudly displayed a pioneering Microsoft tablet device way back in 2000, but it never really took off.

Steve Ballmer demonstrates HP’s upcoming Windows 7-based “slate” PC. When I was a college student, I worked at my school’s on-campus computer store, and we normally had one or two tablets on display.

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 ...

Microsoft and its PC partners are producing a seemingly endless variety of tablets, from 8-inch slates that can practically fit into a (large) pocket to 10-inch tablets that still aren’t quite ideal ...

Hewlett-Packard will announce its own twist on the tablet PC on Thursday, with a new kind of transformable computer that features a detachable keyboard. Tablet PCs are essentially 3- to 4-pound "ultra ...

The first Tablet PCs are a double instead of a home run: If each weighed about two pounds instead of four, with batteries that lasted eight hours instead of four, and cost around $1,000 instead of ...

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 ...

According to sources close to the company, Microsoft will unveil details of the new operating system at next week's TechXNY trade show in New York as it assists manufacturers in having the machines on ...