Windows 8

Apple, then Google and now Microsoft. Another smartphone is rumored to be available soon, and Microsoft will try and grab a bigger slice of the mobile pie, compared to how much it has now with it's Windows 8 phones. Honestly, I have yet to even see a Windows 8 phone in the silicon flesh as it were.

Some people are calling it Microsoft's "Apple Moment". At a very "hush hush" event in Los Angeles on Monday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off the Surface, their new tablet device to take on the iPad. Could this one be the iPad killer Microsoft is hoping for? Or just an attempt to stay relevant?

Microsoft fans are giddy this week, as the house that Gates built has released a consumer preview of their latest version of the Windows operating system, Windows 8. They say it's the biggest redesign since Windows 95, which turns 17 years old this month. So what new things does Windows 8 have? Here's a quick rundown of some of the new features.

At the Build Windows conference in California, reps for the company laid out it's plans for it's next version of Windows, Windows 8, as well as some of it's other products, like XBox and Windows Phone 7. It's all going to the cloud. This article on Extremetech lays it out in more detail, but here's the highlights.