Some modern laptops and tablets have nothing but USB Type-C ports. Most of Microsoft’s Surface devices, meanwhile, don’t even have a single USB-C port. But the company promised last year that it would ...

Of all the changes Microsoft could have made with the new Surface Pro it introduced on Tuesday in China, adding a USB-C port was a gimme. Except that it wasn’t and Microsoft didn’t. The choice to ...

If there’s been one weakness of the Surface tablet series, it’s been a lack of available expansion ports—a shortcoming Microsoft addressed with the Surface Dock. But three years after the latest Dock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the state of a society can be gleaned from its luxury technology, then nothing sums up the unbridled consumerism quite like ...

It's almost embarrassing, at least for Microsoft, that Apple would be at the forefront of pushing new standards like USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 while its premier flagship computers obstinately remain in ...

When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

Microsoft seemingly made waves when it introduced the Surface Laptop last week. Ranging from $999 to $2,199, the device aims to tackle the high-end Chromebook market packing a restricted version of ...

Update (June 26): There's now a listing for and a photo of the coming USB-C dongle for Surface, codenamed "Tulum," on Microsoft's Surface business site. Update No. 2 (June 29): The Surface Connect to ...

A new Surface Pro could arrive later this year, and Microsoft may give its detachable tablet design a big makeover. Part of that makeover involves making USB-C a native feature for the first time on ...