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Syrian Electronic Army hits Microsoft…again

It’s a bad month to be one of Microsoft’s social media properties. https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/status/422093475224371201 The Syrian Electronic Army managed to take… Read More

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Microsoft hasn’t evolved and needs to ‘push the reset button’

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has never been shy about sharing his true feelings on rival Microsoft, just recently calling the… Read More

Study shows Microsoft outpacing Apple in battle for tech consumer mindshare

A new study from Forrester may surprise you: Microsoft — not Apple — is doing a better job of building… Read More

Halo vet Joseph Staten returns to Microsoft after working on Bungie’s ‘Destiny’

Joseph Staten, a design director who worked on several Halo titles, is coming back to Microsoft. Staten spent the past… Read More

Nokia launches Lumia Black update for its Windows Phones

Nokia launched its Lumia Black update today, and is slowly rolling out the latest changes to various models of its… Read More

Chart: Look out Windows, Android is the new ubiquitous operating system

“Windows Everywhere” ought to be repurposed to “Android Everywhere,” given the state of the market for Internet-connected devices. Shipments of… Read More

Barnes & Noble reports dismal Nook sales, blames lack of new tablets

While the holiday has traditionally been a good season for e-readers, Barnes & Noble’s Nook didn’t quite feel the Christmas… Read More

Pokki app store expands to Android, now adjusts on-the-fly for multi-mode devices

LAS VEGAS — Pokki, an app store pre-installed on Windows 8 machines from major PC makers, will now adjust in… Read More

Alan Mulally ends Microsoft CEO speculation, plans to stay at Ford through 2014

Microsoft has one less CEO candidate to consider. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tells The Associated Press today that he plans… Read More

San Francisco Mayor says tech companies will start paying for bus stop use

The City of San Francisco has struck an agreement with technology companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft to create a… Read More

Wintel meets Windroid: Intel’s Dual OS is a symbolic shot at Microsoft

LAS VEGAS — Intel tonight confirmed plans to offer processors that support devices running both Microsoft Windows and Android operating… Read More

Microsoft’s $100M Parature deal aims to fill Dynamics gap

Microsoft has acquired Parature, a customer service software company, to help its Dynamics customer relationship management software compete more effectively… Read More

Microsoft issues fix for Surface 2’s maddening BitLocker bug

I’m down in Las Vegas for CES, but for the past couple days I’ve been doing remote technical support for… Read More

Xbox One sales top 3 million in ‘epic launch’ for Microsoft game console

This holiday season left Microsoft a rather significant present. The Redmond-based company announced today that sales of the Xbox One… Read More

Android or Windows? Microsoft reportedly discussing dual-OS phones

Microsoft’s plan for gaining relevance in the smartphone market may be taking a page out of a traditional PC strategy.… Read More

Meet the new Bob: Startup not worried about Microsoft jinx

LAS VEGAS — Is the world ready for a new Bob? One technology company thinks so. As I walked into… Read More

Up close with Lenovo’s magnetic Miix 2 hybrid notebook/tablet

LAS VEGAS — PC makers have tried all sorts of approaches to make notebooks work as tablets — bending, twisting… Read More

Bill Gates’ fortune grew by $15.8 billion in 2013 as Microsoft stock surged 35%

From a financial standpoint, 2013 was a good year for Bill Gates. The Microsoft co-founder saw his fortune grow by… Read More

Skype says no user data stolen in Syrian Electronic Army attack

Skype’s social media properties and blogs were hijacked yesterday, with the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group loyal to the… Read More

Kindle Fire and Surface gain market share post-Christmas, but iPad rules the roost

It seems like the tablet-owning public woke up to a bunch of Microsoft Surfaces and Amazon Kindle Fires under their… Read More

Top tech stocks of 2013: Here’s where you could have made (and lost) a lot of cash

2013 was all about the newcomers. Two of the top performing tech stocks in Washington state this past year were… Read More

Windows 8 tops 10% market share, XP dips below 30%, and Windows 7 keeps climbing

Microsoft’s Windows 8 is ending the year by reaching a nice little milestone — exceeding 10 percent market share (for… Read More

Microsoft’s 2014 will be defined by a new CEO … if Ballmer and Gates can let go

One of the best moments in the Fremont Players’ production of “Dick Whittington and His Cat” — a British Panto on… Read More

Vote: What was the top tech news story of the year?

OK, geek fans. We’ve compiled our list of the top quotes of 2013, and just yesterday posted the top 50… Read More

Free games for Xbox Live Gold members: Sleeping Dogs, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Microsoft announced today that as part of its Games with Gold program, Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be receiving two… Read More

Longtime Microsoft engineering leader Jon DeVaan is leaving

Jon DeVaan, the respected Microsoft executive who oversaw some of the company’s most important engineering initiatives, is leaving after nearly… Read More

Top 50 posts of the year: Here’s what you were reading in 2013

Reorgs. Resignations. Ridesharing. Drones. Divestitures. Devices. Smartwatches. Stack Ranks. Secret Santas. 2013 had a little bit of everything, and we… Read More

Tech Moves: Shauna Causey named VP at UP Global; etc.

—UP Global, the Seattle non-profit that formed earlier this year through the combination of Startup America and Startup Weekend, has… Read More

Microsoft Windows crash reporting system used by NSA for ‘passive’ spying, report says

Agents with the U.S. National Security Agency are able to intercept crash reports from specific Microsoft Windows-based machines to better… Read More

The year in quotes: From Ballmer to Bezos to Bitcoin

Wow, what a year! From Amazon drones to Steve Ballmer’s retirement to spectacularly performing IPOs, the tech industry took some… Read More

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