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Windows 8 Surface: best tablet, best laptop OR compromised and confusing?

Windows 8 Surface: best tablet, best laptop OR compromised and confusing?

Microsoft and Apple have given their slightly loaded opinions on Redmond's debut fondleslab, but what do you think? Speak your brains here on Surface and on Windows 8 - the good, the bad, the ugly...

Windows 8: Life in a post .NET world

Windows 8: Life in a post .NET world

With Microsoft's love for Windows 8 and WinRT, has .NET been consigned to maintenance mode?

Windows 8 LiveChat: after hours

Lots of enthusiasm for Win 8, but some tactical challenges:

Jason Beres told us some API's are missing (TypeConverters. some Method overloads), some have changed (Type names and access modifiers have changed for no apparent reason) so it's a mixed bag. It creates a problem for developers looking to 'port' an app to WinRT. Tim Anderson highlighted the weakness of documentation. Are these making things needlessly difficult?

Windows 8 LiveChat: after hours

Our one-hour Windows 8 RTM LiveChat has wrapped but there's plenty to discuss: what's been the best and worst bits, what should Microsoft do next, and is this really Microsoft's best shot at the iPad and Apple? Get stuck in with fellow Reg readers in our after hours Live Chat session here...

Ubuntu: why it will work on the phone

Ubuntu: why it will work on the phone

Canonical's rumored to be developing an Ubuntu phone. Will it beat Android or go the way of the Linux desktop?