Just as PCs and Macs run Microsoft Windows and MacOS X, so different tablets are based around different operating systems. The most popular of these is Apple's iOS found on the various iterations ...

Support for many Windows 10 devices ends on October 14th. Although Microsoft is accommodating fans of the operating system in ...

Five years ago, on November 7 2002, Microsoft launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Bill Gates himself was on-hand to launch the new platform at a large press event. “The launch of the Tablet ...

The tablet, slate and pad, or Apple iPad, category is barely hatched, but the operating system wars are well worth noting as mobile platforms move upstream and Windows 7 tries to go downstream.

Tablets running Android, meanwhile, zoomed to 30 percent operating system share from 3 percent in the year-ago second quarter.

According unnamed insiders that spoke to Reuters, Amazon is planning a strategic overhaul of its Fire tablets which would ...

Google has branched its Android operating system into phone-specific and tablet-specific versions. The latest phone version is 2.3 and the new tablet version starts with 3.0, also known as Honeycomb.

Windows 8 is a PC operating system, so it does have a local file system with a file browser, and you can pick pictures there, but traditionally that doesn't give you access to those cloud pictures.

China's Huawei has begun talks with Russia about installing Russian operating system (OS) Aurora on 360,000 of its tablets to conduct Russia's population census next year, two sources told Reuters.

At BlackBerry DevCon in San Francisco, RIM says that future tablets and BlackBerry phones will have the same operating system.

Windows 8 is a usable touch-screen tablet operating system, and it certainly has some compelling features when used on that kind of machine.