One of the longest running jokes in our sphere is that the coming year will finally be the year of “Linux on the Desktop.” Never mind that the erosion of the traditional Windows-style desktop form of ...

My Surface laptop finally started showing its age, and try as I might, there wasn’t much I could do to improve its performance. So I took the ultimate step: I installed Linux on a Microsoft Surface ...

The chief executive of Acer has again slammed Microsoft over its Windows RT-based consumer Surface tablets, saying his company sees “no value” in developing a tablet based on the current version of ...

Microsoft’s Windows RT Surface tablet is off to an exceedingly poor start, with sales of at most 750,000, and very high rates of return. So says iSuppli. Worse yet, the reason for the high return ...