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Nearly 14,000 lucky Queensland secondary schoolers will receive the largest deployment of Windows 8 tablets in Australia, in a new deal.

Acer has kicked off Taiwan's Computex show with a bang, announcing several touch-friendly products including the industry's first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet.

Toshiba today announced a detachable ultrabook - the Portégé Z10t, which Telstra has nabbed as an exclusive for three months.

OPINION Microsoft's Surface Pro is an excellent opportunity for the company to right the wrongs of its lukewarm first effort.

I am now three months into my second tablet, a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, and after using both iOS and Android extensively I have come to the conclusion that there is room for a new tablet operating system. Absent other contenders, Microsoft has a great opportunity to make a comeback.

Nokia's newest low cost Win 8 handset the Lumia 520 will be available in Australia this month, the company announced today.

DVD rental and video streaming company Quickflix has released a Windows 8 streaming app, available in the Windows Store as a free download.

PC sales have experienced the steepest decline in two decades of record keeping, plunging a huge 14 percent in the first three months of the year.

April's Patch Tuesday will see the release of nine security bulletins by Microsoft, two of them rated critical.

Virgin Mobile announced it has released Nokia's newest handest the Lumia 720 today, and will begin taking pre-orders for the HTC One from tomorrow.

Acer has introduced a range of touchscreen notebooks - the Aspire V5 series - at everyday prices.

The latest versions of Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Sun Ray Software can be managed from Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.

Yesterday, I published a scathing review of the hybrid notebook PC and tablet from Hewlett-Packard, the HP ENVY x2. I stand by the conclusions of that review - underpowered,  overpriced and neither a good tablet nor PC. However, I believe the hardware is actually very nice and the story would have been quite different had HP not used Windows 8 or upped its hardware specs.

Prior to getting my hands on a review unit of the HP ENVY x2, the new hybrid Windows 8 notebook and tablet PC from Hewlett-Packard, I felt a sense of quiet anticipation that perhaps this could be a great come-back product for the troubled computer giant. Sadly, however this machine is the exact opposite and a disappointment on many fronts.

Microsoft is set to release patches for a whopping 57 vulnerabilities later this week.

Windows Surface Pro sold out at its US release last weekend. iTWire thinks it is a good product but more importantly it is a good benchmark for others to improve on – and they are. MS entered the tablet fracas for one reason, to shame or spur its OEM partners on to releasing better tablets that it was – let’s call it a benchmarking exercise.

Most coverage of Windows To Go has revolved around thumb drives, but now WD is offering a portable hard drive certified for use with Windows To Go.

By far the most requested feature for Windows 8 is  the return of the Start Button to the Desktop.

Can't wait for the Surface Pro? Asus is delivering its Intel-powered VivoTab Smart Windows 8 tablet this week.

The initial promotional pricing for Windows 8 Pro upgrades changes from 1 February – the new price could be up to three times more!