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• Dell aims to cut desktop reliance with workstation for datacentres

  By Agam Shah | 16 May, 2013 13:01

  Dell intends to move workstations into the datacentre and then serve up intense multimedia and engineering applications to remote users over the cloud or in virtualized environments via thin clients.

• Lenovo and Apple grew as bottom fell out of PC market in Western Europe

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 15 May, 2013 12:49

  PC shipments in Western Europe declined by 20.5 percent during the first quarter: The only vendors to see shipments grow were Lenovo and Apple, which returned to the top five.

• Microsoft's $2B loan to Dell comes with strings

  By Gregg Keizer | 06 May, 2013 10:52

  As part of Microsoft's loan of $2 billion to a group trying to buy PC maker Dell, the two companies must modify the payment terms of Dell's current agreements with Microsoft, a document filed with U.S. regulators said.

• Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost

  By Agam Shah | 02 May, 2013 03:01

  Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already releasing teasers that talk about their performance.

• Windows 8 grows slow, XP just won't go

  By Gregg Keizer | 01 May, 2013 18:25

  Microsoft was hit with a double whammy last month as it made scant progress in either boosting the usage share of Windows 8 or depressing the share of Windows XP, new data published showed.

• Want the best tech support? Buy a Mac, says <i>Consumer Reports</i>

  By Gregg Keizer | 30 April, 2013 20:33

  Apple today again captured top honors in Consumer Reports' tech support ratings survey, besting other computer makers by a wide margin.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech bellwethers report mixed quarter

  By Marc Ferranti | 19 April, 2013 19:35

  Some of the biggest names in IT including IBM, Microsoft, Google and Intel reported quarterly earnings this week, revealing a picture of the tech sector that, while not as gloomy as had been feared, is nevertheless mixed.

• Outgoing Intel CEO knocks Windows 8, predicts $200 touch PCs this year

  By Gregg Keizer | 17 April, 2013 20:48

  Intel's outgoing CEO has taken a few parting shots at Microsoft's Windows 8 as he explained a slump in both revenue and profits for the first quarter.

• UEFI president: We need more key providers

  By Joab Jackson | 28 February, 2013 20:51

  Since its introduction, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface has created a fair amount of controversy. UEFI was created through an industry consortium as an evolutionary step up from BIOS, the simple firmware long used when starting a computer to initialize all the components and load the operating system. Among its advanced features, UEFI includes an option called Secure Boot, which requires that any software used before the operating system starts, or after it shuts down, has been signed by a certificate authority.

• HP is ready to get back to business

  By Jared Newman | 29 October, 2011 08:12

  After a crazy year for HP that included a failed tablet, a hasty decision to abandon the PC business (a decision now abandoned), and a CEO shakeup, the company seems eager to get back to business as usual.

• Windows 8 is an enterprise 'non-starter' because IT sees no value in changes

  By Gregg Keizer | 17 May, 2013 14:43

  Windows 8 faces a number of hurdles in the enterprise, but the biggest reason it won't replace the current corporate champion, Windows 7, is simple: IT shops don't think it's worth the upgrade hassle.

• Apple CEO defends Mac line; analysts foresee iPad hybrids

  By Gregg Keizer | 24 April, 2013 19:18

  Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended the company's iconic Mac line, which saw a second consecutive decline in sales last quarter, and promised that Apple would continue to crank out personal computers.

• Microsoft: Mum's again the word on Windows 8 sales

  By Gregg Keizer | 19 April, 2013 14:37

  Even though PC shipments were down 14% last quarter, Microsoft's Windows division posted revenue about the same as the last year, making up for slumping sales to OEMs with growth in long-term licensing agreements sold to enterprises.

• With Intel's Otellini out next month, no CEO replacement yet

  By Sharon Gaudin | 16 April, 2013 22:35

  Just a month before Paul Otellini steps down as CEO of Intel, the company does not yet have a replacement.

• Microsoft must fight to remain influential, say analysts

  By Gregg Keizer | 10 April, 2013 18:23

  Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today.

• Different and cheap, new $25 Raspberry Pi is selling

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 03 April, 2013 10:07

  Maybe people are bored with Apple and Windows machines, or just restless for the challenge of something new. But different is selling.

• Windows Blue and Microsoft's continuous upgrade strategy

  By Gregg Keizer | 27 March, 2013 16:06

  Microsoft yesterday confirmed Windows "Blue," an upgrade to Windows 8, but analysts remained uneasy about how the faster release cadence that Blue represents will be digested by businesses.

• Opinion: iPad vs. PC - sometimes the accepted wisdom is right

  By Preston Gralla | 25 March, 2013 10:17

  It's clear that hardware makers are experimenting far more with Windows devices than Apple is with the iPad. But that does that herald a revival of the PC?