I've heard many people say the same thing I concluded not long after I spent some time with Windows 10: If only this is what Windows 8 had been, things would have been different. Windows 8's release was accompanied by a PC sales winter, but how responsible was Windows 8 for it? Perhaps it didn't

If both ultra-widescreen and curved computer monitors are all the rage these days, then Samsung's new SE790C display is supremely fashionable. The 34-inch, 3,440 x 1,440 LCD has both a super-wide 21:9 aspect ratio and a gentle arc, combining two trends (fads?) in one. Supposedly, this

Following a Q&A session with COO Kevin Turner in Arizona, there are new rumblings that Microsoft will introduce subscriptions forWindows 10. Can Microsoft really justify doing that? This new round of speculation was kicked off by a reply Turner gave to an audience member who asked, “Are you

The PC industry’s response to the rapid rise of tablets has been to push touchscreens into laptops of all shapes and sizes. Two years ago, at Computex in Taiwan, Intel announced it would use its Ultrabook fund to boost production of large touchscreens in anticipation of a 3-5x increase in demand

Chromebooks continue to explode in the laptop market, which has certainly caught the attention of chip giant Intel. With many of these dirt-cheap Chrome OS notebooks being powered by ARM-based processors, there's been thought that this new niche could threaten Intel's bottom line. While ultimately