Microsoft have announced their own Windows 8 powered Surface Tablets and have now positioned themselves nicely to become big competitors in the tablet market once Windows 8 is released, probably sometime around mid-October. Microsoft announced two different tablets, the Surface which runs Windows 8 Pro and a Surface that run Windows RT. While at first you may not notice any differences between these two tablets, open closer inspection you will find that quite a few things are different. The Operating System We've already written quite an extensive post that ...

Microsoft surprised us all last week by announcing a surprise mystery product event. Of course this immediately set rumours flying around the media suggesting all sorts of things, from Microsoft announcing their own eReader to announcing their very own tablet device. We ourselves had speculated that a Windows 8 Tablet would be released by Microsoft in 2012. The latter turned out to be true and not only did Microsoft announce their very own “Surface” tablet, but they actually announced two editions. While these tablets took centre stage, the press ...