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Microsoft Unveils Windows 8, Surface Tablet

Microsoft showed off its new Windows 8 operating system and its companion Surface tablet computer—the first computer for the company that has dominated PC software for a generation.

Wall Street Journal
Oct 25, 2012

Microsoft Corp. showed off its new Windows 8 operating system and its companion Surface tablet computer—the first computer for the company that has dominated PC software for a generation.

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