The recent introduction of Windows 10 Technical Preview has made many pundits wonder about the future of Microsoft’s Windows RT, an inexpensive, low-power version of Windows 8 designed to run on the ...

Evidence abounds that Windows RT, Microsoft's version of Windows 8 for ARM-based devices like tablets, is in trouble. It’s time for Microsoft to take a hard look at what it's trying to accomplish and ...

Mere days after Microsoft was forced to slash the price of the Surface RT by $150 in an attempt to move more of the moribund tablets, Windows RT has received yet another no-confidence vote: Asus, ...

Ah, Vegas. It’s the place where dreams are realized, and hearts are shattered. As such, probably no more appropriate venue exists to showcase the massive gamble that is Windows RT, Microsoft’s first ...

As Windows 8 and its accompanying devices launch on Oct. 26, you’ll want to make sure you know the differences between the various flavors of Windows 8 before purchasing a device or upgrade pack.

Company temporarily pulls its recently released Windows RT 8.1 update for ARM-based devices owing to an unexplained issue. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of ...

Sometimes, sinister plans end with a wimper. Yesterday, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft’s sometimes wacky, zealous CEO) spent most of his keynote apologizing. Beaten from poor reviews and, worse, poor sales ...

Tablets powered by Microsoft's new Windows RT operating system have made an appearance in the listings of online retailers, and based on what I've seen so far, they are destined for failure. The first ...

Well, that was quick: Despite Microsoft saying that Windows 10 was coming to its misfit tablet, the Surface RT, that isn't quite the case. As Thurrott reports, Redmond is working on an update for ...

It's no secret that Surface RT and Windows RT, along with Windows RT on other platforms, didn't do as well as Microsoft hoped. The latest collateral damage in that failure was Nvidia's Tegra ...

In 1993, Microsoft introduced Windows NT. Unlike Windows 3.1–and, later, Windows 95 and 98–it could run on processors made by companies other than Intel or AMD. Windows NT supported several chips that ...

Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News, with occasional forays into tech and pop culture. Formerly a CNET Reviews senior editor for software, he has written about ...