A new report claims that Microsoft might give attendees of this month's BUILD 2013 developer conference a free Surface Pro PC and the recent Acer 8-inch Iconia W3 tablet. More...

Microsoft has released their latest monthly firmware updates for the Surface RT and Surface Pro devices, including the promised addition of new functionality for the Surface RT's Touch and Type covers More...

Microsoft's TechEd Surface deal appears to be a ringing success. The conference hall was bustling with attendees waiting in line for hours to purchase the two Microsoft tablets. More...

Do you want a Surface RT with touch cover for $99? Or maybe you'd prefer to buy a 128GB Surface Pro for $399? If that interests you, then fly to New Orleans next week and attend TechEd with us! More...

Microsoft has announced that the Surface Pro will go on-sale in Japan on June 7th, bringing a 256 GB localized model that includes a full copy of Office 2013, while new Touch Covers are also available More...

A report claims that Microsoft has some huge sales goals for its Surface family of tablets, claiming the company is aiming for 25 million of its tablets sold in its 2014 fiscal year. More...

Microsoft's Surface Pro has finally gone on sale in the United Kingdom, with prices starting at £719 for the 64GB version - almost a year after the tablet was first announced in June 2012. More...

After revealing details of its UK launch, Microsoft has announced availability and pricing info for the Surface Pro in a number of European countries, with most of them going for a May 31st date. More...

Microsoft has announced that the Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in Australia on May 30th on the local Microsoft Store website along with the JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman retail stores. More...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro tablet, the Surface Pro, will go on sale in the UK starting May 23rd, but it will only be on sale online via the UK Microsoft Store website. More...

Microsoft's latest firmware update for its Surface Pro and Surface RT tablets have been released, which offer some WiFi improvements for the Pro version and speaker upgrades for the RT tablet. More...

The Surface Pro will go on sale in Hong Kong starting on Friday, several weeks after the Windows 8 Pro version of Microsoft's tablet went on sale in mainland China. More...

After months of waiting, Windows 8 and the Surface Pro PC from Microsoft finally gets the Wacom driver that enables pressure sensitivity and eraser functionality on Photoshop with its pen. More...

IDC tablet analyst Tom Mainelli has some harsh words to say about the Surface Pro, stating that "it's just not there yet" in terms of execution, and that Microsoft should only have one tablet OS More...

A post on the official Surface Blog, the first in a new monthly series on how 'real people' use Surface, tells the story of man who ditched his iPad for a Surface Pro, taking a few digs at the iPad. More...

According to IDC, Microsoft shipped 900,000 Surface devices in Q1 2013. The majority of those devices are Surface Pros, with the Surface RT accounting for just 0.4% of all tablets sold. More...

A new report from online ad network AdDuplex claims that Microsoft's Surface RT tablet is still the most used PC among all of the 9,000 or so Windows 8/RT device models. More...

A report from research firm Strategy Analytics claims that three million tablets with a version of Microsoft's Windows OS shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2013. More...

Microsoft's Surface leader Panos Panay said that the company might consider making more custom Surface version in other countries besides China if the demand is strong enough. More...

Microsoft has confirmed that its Surface Pro tablet will launch in the UK, Germany, France, Australia and 15 other markets by the end of May, with Russia, Singapore and others being added in June. More...

Microsoft has released an update to the Trackpad Settings app for Windows 8, which is supposed to fix an issue with the Touch or Type Cover add-on not being recognized by the Surface Pro. More...

Microsoft says it is aware of a new issue with the Surface Pro PC that involves the Trackpad Settings app not recognizing the Touch or Type Cover add-on and is working to fix the problem. More...

A patent from 2011 has emerged that shows Nokia's ideas for a kickstand-enabled case for a tablet, similar to the Touch Cover (or Type Cover) of the Surface. Nokia's tablet ambitions have been halted. More...

In a new blog post, Microsoft talks about how their Applied Sciences team helped to create a way to cut down on the reflections on the touchscreen for Microsoft's Surface hardware. More...

Microsoft's latest software update for its Surface Pro product will fix a few issues with the Windows 8 Pro device, along with adding support for different types of keyboards. More...

The warranties for Microsoft's Surface tablets are being criticized by the state-run Chinese media, following similar criticisms from the same media of Apple's warranties. More...

Microsoft launched the Surface Pro PC in China today along with another variant, "Surface Chinese", with the basic version of Windows 8 in the Chinese language and Office 2013 Home and Student. More...

Microsoft put in a new automatic update for owners of the Surface Pro PC this week that the company says is designed to improve the performance of its SSD during the boot process. More...

With tepid sales figures, Microsoft was rumoured to be considering merging Windows RT with full Windows 8. That is not the case, however, with Microsoft saying RT is part of a longer game. More...

Panos Panay, the leader of Microsoft's Surface hardware team, said in a brief speech today that the Surface RT is a tablet, while the Surface Pro is meant to be a PC, despite its tablet form factor. More...

Microsoft has announced that China will be the first country outside the US and Canada to sell the Surface Pro tablet. The Windows 8 Pro device will begin sales on April 2nd in that country. More...

Microsoft has been granted a patent for the design of its Surface Touch Cover by the US Patent and Trademark Office, following patents for the Surface tablet itself. More...

In a new blog post, Microsoft has promised it will continue to offer software updates for its Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets, including fixes for continuing WiFi and Surface Pro stylus issues. More...

Microsoft has released a new video that goes behind the scenes on the making of their recent Surface PR TV commercial The Vibe, directed by G.I. Joe Retaliation director Jon M. Chu. More...

Microsoft Surface Pro users have been unable to wake their devices from sleep mode. Microsoft have not yet acknowledged the issue, however forum users have found an easy fix. More...

Some owners of the Surface Pro tablet from Microsoft are reporting they are still experiencing issues with its WiFi connectivity, despite an update earlier in March designed to fix the issue. More...

A new Kickstarter campaign has begun to fund development of ProKASE, a third party case for Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet that will add two USB ports and two microSD card readers. More...

Microsoft is now letting businesses order large quantities of the Surface RT and Surface Pro tablets, but Microsoft is not yet offering price discounts for these large orders. More...

According to Bloomberg, who have sources close to the matter, the Microsoft Surface line has only sold 1.5 million units since its launch, however 400,000 of those have been Pros with decent adoption More...

Microsoft has been granted a patent for the design of its Surface tablet by the US Patent and Trademark Office, along with other patents related to the UI design for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. More...

Microsoft has issued the first software update for its Windows 8 Pro-based Surface Pro tablet, adding in support for the operating system's Windows To Go feature as well as other fixes. More...

Research by the IDC has predicted that Microsoft's tablet market share will grow to 10% in 2017, but the Surface RT will account for just 2.7% of that. Additionally, iPad shipments will drop in 2013. More...

Craig Mundie, adviser to Steve Ballmer, has opened up about Microsoft's thoughts on where the Surface sits compared to OEMs, and Microsoft's recent move to become a hardware company. More...

A security firm claims to have found two zero day exploits in Internet Explorer 10 that allowed the company to take over the Windows 8 OS of a Surface Pro tablet. More...

Our latest From The Forums story puts the spotlight on a Neowin member who uploaded a video showing how he got his Microsoft Surface Pro tablet to run Google's Android OS. More...

A little known Chinese PC maker called HKC is displaying a "tablet PC" that runs Windows 8 Pro with a case design that's very similar to Microsoft's Surface Pro, complete with built in kickstand. More...

When Microsoft released the Surface Pro, anyone outside North America wondered when they would be able to get their paws on Microsoft's latest goods and it looks like March when that will occur. More...

The Penny Arcade website has given its thumbs-up to the Microsoft Surface Pro tablet, as the online web strip's artist Mike "Gabe" Krahulik writes that the tablet is good for drawing and gaming. More...

A new report claims that Microsoft will expand the sales of its Surface RT tablet, running on Windows RT, to Japan starting sometime in March. Meanwhile the 128 GB Surface Pro tablet is still scarce. More...