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Toshiba trims its affordable ultrabook down an even sleeker and more affordable form in time for Windows 8.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Kirk Koenigsbauer show off the new Office for consumers and businesses, with redesigned apps including OneNote, Sharepoint, PowerPoint, and Excel. The cloud-based software will be available for tablets, smartphones, and desktop devices.

Sleepwalker is a handy Windows program that gives you the power to schedule PC shutdown. But that's not all; you can choose other power options after a certain task has completed, like emptying the Recycle Bin or deleting temporary files.

It's an ultrabook. It's a tablet. It's both! Toshiba's funky sliding laptop makes its debut in time for Windows 8.

A slim laptop that adds a Windows 8 touch display, the Spectre XT is HP's flagship ultrabook.

Did you know that Windows has a built-in program for setting automatic recurring reminders? Veronica explains how to get things up and running so you'll never need to use Microsoft Outlook to set reminders again.

Don't want to wait for Windows 8 to get those cool new features? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how WinPlusX can give you access to at least one of those new menus.

The Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse is meant to travel light with your Windows 8 tablet-to-be. It works well with Android tablets, too.

Spectacle is a Mac app that lets you easily arrange windows with keyboard shortcuts. You can align windows to the left, right, and every which way...enough to make even Windows 7 jealous.

Microsoft has Windows 8 tablets in mind for its new mobile keyboard, but the smart keyboard-and-tablet-stand combo is a great fit for all kinds of devices.

The ThinkPad Tablet 2 runs a full Windows 8 Professional OS, but does so on a next-gen Intel Atom processor.

Molly Wood unboxes a hot, new Windows Ultrabook. But can it compete with the new MacBook Air?

The powerful Galaxy S3 lands with high marks, Verizon widens its LTE lead and Windows Phone 8 will be out this fall -- but not for current Windows Phone users.

Microsoft's Kevin Gallo demos new speech-recognition technology running Windows Phone 8. The company partnered with Audible on the tech, which lets users search and move around the platform from app to app.

CNET's Rafe Needleman demos gesture-control software for Windows 8.

Windows 8 takes its penultimate step before lockdown, adding multitouch trackpad support and showing off a more complete version of Microsoft's next-gen operating system. Take a tour of the nearly-finished Windows 8 Release Preview.

The new Series 9's smaller and lighter than a 13-inch MacBook Air, but it's also more expensive. Take a look at a Windows ultrabook that's hard to beat, provided you can afford it.

Barnes & Noble may be prepping a new 7-inch Nook that has a "revolutionary screen." What does that even mean? Also, an iPhone rumor is born every minute, and Microsoft finally realizes that nobody wants to pay $1 million for Windows 8.

You don't need to be an editing genius to create custom ringtones from your music library. Sharon Vaknin shows you how to personalize your incoming call alerts on your iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows phones.

Longing for more features for Windows Explorer? StExBar gives you a bunch of new options for your Explorer windows, and Veronica has the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

Anti-Twin is a Windows application that detects and deletes duplicate files on your system. You can even set it to compare pixels to find duplicate pictures! Check out today's Tekzilla Daily to see it in action.

Ever wish you could reopen that Windows Explorer folder you just closed by accident? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how UndoClose can reopen both applications and folders after you've exited.

One of the best things about Windows 8 is that you can sync settings, apps, and more across multiple computers and tablets. Here's how you do it.

Wish you had one more convenient shortcut in your context menu in Windows Explorer? Right Click Tweaker lets you add some superuseful features, and Veronica shows you how it works on today's Tekzilla Daily.

Tabs are so much easier to handle than separate windows, so why not add them to Windows Explorer? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica checks out QTTabBar and all the glorious benefits to multiple tabs.

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and Steven Sinofsky announce a line of tablet devices at press event in Los Angeles Monday. The Surface tablets, running Windows 8, feature 10.6-inch touch screens wrapped in a magnesium case. They also feature a magnetically-attached, 3mm-thick Touch Cover that folds down and functions as a full touch-screen keyboard.


Learn how to transfer pictures taken on a Windows Phone device onto an Apple computer using a Microsoft app called Windows Phone 7 Connector.

Now that the Windows 8 beta is freely available from Microsoft, it's time to check out what it can do for you. And don't worry, it'll work with a keyboard and mouse, too.

If you hate it when OS X Lion restores all your windows, we have the answer. On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how RestoreMeNot can mitigate that restoration chaos.