The company is offering the Mac Pro and Mac Mini as Xserve replacements. Apple is dropping the Xserve product as it continues along the path of a consumer-focused company
The Slate 500 is the company's first tablet. Targeted at businesses, the tablet will come with an 8.9-inch screen and run Microsoft's Windows 7 Professional OS
The company will continue to adapt its PC operating system, Windows 7, for tablets. The strategy puts Microsoft at odds with some of its biggest competitors in the mobile phone market
Multicore chips, faster processors could bring powerful cloud applications and multiple OSes to tablets, phones. Insight from Linley Gwennap, founder and principal analyst at The Linley Group,