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Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker: Firefox OS targets all of humanity, not just Apple iOS users

While Apple was busy in San Francisco announcing a new set of features that will wow its fan boys, Mozilla’s… Read More

Fun with numbers: Apple’s Tim Cook digs at Windows with a statistical stretch

Hey, it wouldn’t be an Apple conference without a fun jab at Microsoft to kick things off! Apple CEO Tim Cook… Read More

Xbox One to launch ‘Brazil Now’ app for World Cup, debuts original soccer TV series

Soccer fans who own an Xbox One will have plenty of content to play around with this month as the FIFA… Read More

Microsoft hires its own chief economist, from Google

Microsoft this morning announced a new position of chief economist inside the company, and named Preston McAfee — most recently… Read More

Microsoft, ESPN team up for slick World Cup website

Microsoft is getting in the World Cup spirit. Soccer — er, fútbol — fans will like a slick new website… Read More

What type of NBA owner will Steve Ballmer be? Four clues from his Microsoft career

After watching and covering Steve Ballmer for the past decade at Microsoft, it has been fun to see him emerge as… Read More

Once bitter rivals, Microsoft and Salesforce.com confirm wide-ranging partnership

How’s this for patching things up? Microsoft and Salesforce, longtime tech industry rivals, just confirmed that they have reached a… Read More

Microsoft and Salesforce may join together in the cloud

Microsoft Azure could become more attractive to businesses that rely on Salesforce’s cloud-based customer management programs. The two companies are… Read More

How Microsoft plans to get companies to stop buying iPads

Why lug around an iPad and a laptop? That was Microsoft’s pitch as it unveiled its new Surface Pro 3 last week,… Read More

Microsoft partners with Yelp, TripAdvisor for Bing Maps integration

Microsoft has partnered with Yelp and TripAdvisor to embed restaurant reviews directly within the Windows 8 Bing Maps App. The new… Read More

Xamarin update helps Windows developers create iOS and Android apps

Programmers who use Microsoft’s C# programming language now have an easier way to build mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. Xamarin… Read More

Microsoft buys Paris startup Capptain to better analyze mobile app usage

Microsoft is buying Capptain, a small Paris-based startup that helps mobile developers get a better sense of how people are using… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s tweet storm makes case for ‘more personal computing era’

Marc Andreessen isn’t the only geek sending out multiple tweets at once to explain himself — now Microsoft CEO Satya… Read More

Microsoft details Surface 4K display support, hints at Thunderbolt connection

People who plan to add the Surface Pro 3 to an existing set of external displays will be happy to… Read More

What should Microsoft buy? 10 companies for Satya Nadella’s shopping list

The market for tech mergers and acquisitions is strong right now. Facebook is acquiring Oculus. Comcast is buying Time Warner Cable,… Read More

The next battleground for Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google: Artificial Intelligence

Digital personal assistants today can help you send messages, place phone calls, schedule meetings or find answers from the… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella still ‘defining and tuning’ strategy, chairman John Thompson says

It might seem from the outside like Satya Nadella has already made made changes inside Microsoft — embracing a “mobile first, cloud… Read More

Report: Steve Ballmer meets with Donald Sterling’s wife to discuss sale of NBA team

It appears Steve Ballmer is seriously interested in purchasing the Los Angeles Clippers. TMZ reported this afternoon that the former… Read More

Coding exposure: 900 students develop their first programs at App Day

Inside the gymnasium on Friday at Rainier Beach High School was a scene best described as organized chaos. While DJ Midnight Mike… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: This 15-year-old iPhone stethoscope inventor is just getting started

It’s been a big month for Suman Mulumudi, 15-year-old inventor of the Steth IO smartphone-enabled stethoscope — with an appearance on The… Read More

Microsoft launches lower-cost Windows 8.1 with Bing as default search engine

Microsoft announced today that it’s launching Windows 8.1 with Bing, a new variation on its current operating system. The new… Read More

Xbox One $100 price cut already generating more demand for console

At least in some stores, Microsoft’s decision to offer a cheaper version of the Xbox One is producing strong demand. Last… Read More

Chart: The top 25 companies for pay and benefits

People looking for high pay and good benefits are finding that working in the tech industry comes with plenty of… Read More

Full text: Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer offers life, career advice to USC grads

Steve Ballmer may no longer be CEO at Microsoft, but the energy he brought on stage during his 34 years at… Read More

Microsoft successfully blocked FBI from enterprise customer data request last year

In an effort to demonstrate its policy toward government requests for data, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith today detailed a now-public… Read More

President Obama references the ‘really smart people at Microsoft’ at Seahawks White House ceremony

Seahawks fans are so loud President Barack Obama thinks that some cheating is going on. As customary for teams that… Read More

Microsoft to add external storage support for Xbox One

Microsoft’s Xbox One update for June will include the ability to hook up external hard drives to the console, allowing… Read More

Lenovo takes third place in U.S. PC sales, passing Apple’s Mac line for first time

Lenovo said today that its U.S. PC sales for the fiscal fourth quarter passed Apple’s Mac sales for the first time,… Read More

Chart: Amazon.com joins Google, Microsoft and Apple in list of top global brands

Amazon.com joined the ranks of the world’s top10 brands, jumping four spots with a brand value of $64.2 billion, according… Read More

Surface Pro 3: A big clue about Microsoft’s future

This is not the tablet we expected. But it says a lot about where Microsoft is headed. Rather than announcing a new Surface Mini… Read More