As you flex your fingers in anticipation of tablet PCs such as the Acer TravelMate 100, remember one thing: the ball is in Microsoft's court. The company has retooled its Windows XP operating system ...

The Acer C100 is one of my favorite tablets. It's an incredibly small and light convertible tablet, and can be used as a tablet or standard notebook. Tablets come in two flavors: pure tablet and ...

The HP Compaq TC1100 is only 10 years old, but in mobile computing years, it’s laughably archaic. Running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, this device practically dared its owners to enter text without ...

Tablet PCs running Windows XP Tablet Edition come in two flavors: standard notebook designs with keyboards and true tablets. The ViewSonic Tablet PC is among the latter. The ViewSonic is the only XP ...

ANAHEIM, CALIF. — In his keynote address yesterday at Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference, Bill Gates, the company’s chairman and chief software architect, announced the ...

After nearly two years on the market, makers of tablet PCs based on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition have yet to prove that the pen is mightier than the keyboard. But manufacturers are hopeful that Tablet ...

So what makes Tablet PCs more expensive than their laptop counterparts? Some say it’s the OS, while others claim it’s the extra hardware. Either way, it’s about to get cheaper, as Bill Gates himself ...

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 ...