A Microsoft Surface tablet PC is displayed on a stand during its launch event with Microsoft Windows 8 in New York. Photo: Reuters
A Microsoft Surface tablet PC is displayed on a stand during its launch event with Microsoft Windows 8 in New York. Photo: Reuters
Panos Panay, the general manager of the team behind the Microsoft Surface discusses the new Microsoft Surface tablet PC during the launch event for Microsoft Windows 8 in New York. Photo: Reuters
He said members qualifying for the tablets and laptops were those whose job descriptions forced them to work outside the office often.
Microsoft tablet PC Surface is shown at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York. Photo: Reuters
A man takes pictures of a monitor during an event promoting the debut of Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 operating system at the Akihabara electronic shops district in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters
John Eversole, a marketing manager for Microsoft, uses a Slate device with the new Windows 8 operating system during an event unveiling a new Microsoft Windows operating system at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Photo: AP
A man prepares to install Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 operating system to his laptop, as Windows 8 goes on sale after midnight, along a street at the Akihabara district in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gives his presentation at the launch of Microsoft Windows 8, in New York. Windows 8 is the most dramatic overhaul of the personal computer market's dominant operating system in 17 years. Photo: AP
Microsoft engineer Rajas Patil smiles as he displays for the photographer temporary tattoos with the company's logo during an event unveiling a new Microsoft Windows operating system at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Photo: AP
Devices running Windows 8 operating system are shown at the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York. Photo: Reuters
Steven Sinofsky, the President of the Windows and Windows Live Division at Microsoft, speaks at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York. Photo: Reuters
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shows a tablet before the launch of Windows 8 operating system in New York. Photo: Reuters
People arrive at the launch event for Microsoft Windows 8 operating system in New York. Photo: Reuters
Women wearing cosplay outfits distribute paper bags promoting Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 operating system at an event for its debut at the Akihabara electronics store district in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters
People try out Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 operating system at an event for its debut at the Akihabara electronics store district in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters
People try out Microsoft Corp's Windows 8 operating system at an event for its debut at the Akihabara electronics store district in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters
A man tries out the new Surface tablet computer made by Microsoft at a show in Shanghai ahead of the launch of the operating system. Photo: AP
Far East Movement performs to celebrate the launch of HP's new line of Windows 8 touch-technology products in New York. Photo: Reuters
Published Oct 26, 2012
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Microsoft launched its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet in a bid to revive interest in its flagship product and regain ground lost to Apple and Google in mobile computing.
"We've re-imagined Windows and we've re-imagined the whole PC industry," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters Television.
