The company is even going to sell some of those tablets itself: The uncommonly slick Surface is the first-ever PC to carry the Microsoft name.
The reminders of Kaveh were everywhere - photographs on the wall of him holding a video camera, the same small Iranian cigarettes he used to smoke on the table, his name on their PC.
While building Windows 8 and WP8, Microsoft ensured that they both share the same kernel and therefore inherit the same rich feature set that has made Windows a household name in the PC industry.
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In early 2012, Slightly Mad Studios, which has a string of PC and console hits to its name, kicked off its World of Mass Development (WMD) programme.
Michael Dell has said he will buy back the world's number three PC-maker that he founded and that carries his name.
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The real head-scratcher is the Daish? 2.0 Dual PC (shown after the jump), which as the name implies, sports a duo of networked PCs within a single vertical chassis.
China's largest PC maker, Legend , for example, changed its brand name to Lenovo , as its original name turned out to be already registered in many foreign markets.
If it can live up to the hype, users will be able to plug into the Net by PC or phone anywhere in the world and be greeted by name.
If the Ativ label makes its way into stores, though, it may give Samsung a much catchier (if not entirely intuitive) name for its Windows devices than Series 5 Hybrid PC.
As the name suggests, it's a 20-inch PC you can move from room to room -- if 11.86 pounds can really be considered portable.
With its manufacturing efficiency and strong brand name, he says, Dell can defeat the cheap-PC guys just as it beat Packard Bell earlier in the decade.
We'd certainly hope so, considering it was the venerable US computing giant which first released the 700C back in 1992, and only gave up its claim to the name a mere two years ago with the completion of its PC division sale -- but don't worry Big Blue, even if the new guys forgot, we still sent you a card.
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