It has been recently revealed that Microsoft has been working on the development of Surface tablets having Windows 8. It is expected that the production of tablets including a seven inch version will start by the end of 2013.

Gartner has always come with some interesting reports. Yet again, it has come up with a novel report in which it has tried to find out the future of computing device market in 2017.

In order to compete against Apple and its iPad media tablets along with various Google Android-powered devices, the world's largest software developer has decided to cut prices of Windows 8 operating system and Office 2013 by a huge margin.

As per the revelations of a recent report, Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and Chairman, has now confessed that the beginning strategy of Microsoft for mobile phones was a mistake.

Sources have revealed that the next generation of Office is the best that has come till now, though it is not an upgraded version of the Office 2010. According to the reports, editing complicated financial spreadsheets has become very easy.

Microsoft, Android and the developers have been facing a little problem with the Android apps. Adding an Android emulator is not obliterating the problem; rather, it is making it worse.

Microsoft has 750,000 new apps for its Surface Pro tablet. The novel version of Microsoft would be carrying BlueStack with an Android App Player. 

Australian Parliament has beckoned the giants of the technical arena; Apple Inc, Microsoft Inc and Adobe Systems Inc. The agenda of the meeting is to discuss the discrepancy in the prices in America and Australia.

Announcements coming from Microsoft are detailing about the storage capacity of Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service, which now stores one billion Office documents and also about some new latest additions that have been made to the service by the experts.

It seems wait is over for those who have been waiting for Microsoft's Surface Pro with Windows 8 as it will be on sale on Saturday.  Thought its Surface RT could not work, it is expected that the new offering at $899 would be able to make its place in the tablet market. It is expected to come in models with 64GB and 128GB of storage.

A recent report has talked about how possible is Office for iOS. When asked about the same to Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer, during "new" Office 365 launch, he refused to talk about the same, while sharing his satisfaction about the new offering.