Bill Gates’ mistake; Comcast X1; iOS debuts; and other top posts of the month Autumn is officially here. How do we know? Well, of course there’s the rain. But, as GeekWire Chief Business Officer… Read More
Microsoft Bing adds another Pinterest feature to image search, hints at more social integration For the second time this year, Bing has added a Pinterest feature to its image search. Now when you search… Read More
Microsoft shows how Facebook and Twitter would have worked on Windows 95 Microsoft this morning released a remake of the classic game “Hover” for the web. Hover originally debuted on the Windows… Read More
Is Bill Gates the problem? Report says three big shareholders want him out as Microsoft chairman Reuters is making waves tonight with a report that three of Microsoft’s top investors want Bill Gates to step… Read More
Apple now controls 10 percent of all corporate cash*, Microsoft in second place We’ve known for a while that Apple controls a massive hoard of cash, but it’s occasionally hard to put into… Read More
No cellular version planned for Surface Pro line, says Microsoft exec At a Surface 2 preview event in Seattle last night, one of the questions that came up was about Microsoft’s… Read More
Off to the family room in the sky: MSN TV bites the dust MSN TV, Microsoft’s web browsing set-top box, has finally been sent up north, to live out its life at a… Read More
Microsoft tops Apple as America’s most inspiring company; Google 7th, Amazon 8th Is it Bill Gates and his foundation? The company’s corporate giving program? Or maybe it’s just Steve Ballmer’s passion-packed speeches.… Read More
Microsoft Surface chief: ‘Multiple aspect ratios and sizes’ are in the works Panos Panay was literally on the floor when I walked into Microsoft’s Seattle store last night. The vice president responsible… Read More
Ex-Microsofties are kicking ass on Kickstarter with high-tech beer-brewing machine Brewing your own craft beer at home is a difficult, complicated and time-consuming process. Now, two former Microsoft veterans want… Read More
Survey indicates more interest in PlayStation 4 over Xbox One If a recent Reuters and Ipsos poll is any indication, Sony may have the upper hand over Microsoft this winter… Read More
Better than sugar water: Apple overtakes Coca-Cola as world’s most valuable brand In what now has become legend, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs recruited PepsiCo exec John Sculley to the helm of the… Read More
Microsoft grapples with its own privacy after rampant leaks from company meeting In the age of Twitter and smartphones, can something that happens in front of tens of thousands of employees be… Read More
Week in Review: Kindle Fire HDX, Ballmer’s goodbye, and Control-Alt-Delete revisited Need to catch up at the end of the week? Here’s a roundup of highlights from GeekWire this week. Steve… Read More
Alan Mulally, Microsoft CEO? It’s a stretch, but an intriguing possibility One of my most vivid memories of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is what Ford CEO Alan… Read More
Steve Ballmer says goodbye in tearful farewell video: ‘I had the time of my life’ The end of an era. No, he’s not technically leaving just yet. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said goodbye to… Read More
Microsoft wants your iPhone and will give you at least $200 for it First iPads, now iPhones. One week after introducing a trade-in program for iPads, Microsoft today debuted a similar deal for… Read More
Xbox opportunity in the Middle Kingdom: China to lift ban on game consoles After a 13-year ban, game consoles will be allowed to return to China. The announcement, which according to the Wall… Read More
The spirit of Steve Ballmer is irreplaceable at Microsoft Guest Commentary: My first experience with Steve Ballmer was the day Visio was acquired by Microsoft. All of us Visio… Read More
Delta pilots swapping iPad for Surface 2 tablet First, Delta equipped 19,000 flight attendants with Windows Phones. Now, the pilots are getting in on the Microsoft fun. Paul… Read More
The rest of the story: Control-Alt-Delete inventor didn’t expect it to be widely used A story about computing history took the Internet by storm this week after Bill Gates told a Harvard University audience… Read More
Paul Allen on the race between brain research and artificial intelligence — and why he’s betting on both Over the past decade, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has committed $500 million toward understanding the brain through his Allen Institute… Read More
Microsoft announces general availability of multi-factor authentication for Azure Software developers, want to make sure your Windows Azure logins are extra double secure? Well, now you can. Microsoft is… Read More
Ford CEO Alan Mulally reportedly top of the short list for Microsoft CEO Now that Bill Gates has definitively said that he’s not going back to Microsoft, it’s time to start talking about… Read More
Geek of the Week: Mona Akmal, Microsoft SkyDrive group program manager Mona Akmal is a group program manager for Microsoft SkyDrive, which has emerged as one of the Redmond company’s most… Read More
Thousands of Microsoft employees gather for Steve Ballmer’s final company meeting It’s one last hurrah for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today in downtown Seattle. About 13,000 Microsoft employees are flocking to… Read More
Study portrays Microsoft’s cloud computing in China as potential U.S. security threat Earlier this year, Microsoft claimed victory in the race to be the first major multinational tech company to win the rights… Read More
Finally: Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake Bill Gates made many exceptional decisions while he was leading Microsoft to immense success. He did, however, make a few… Read More
Stephen Elop’s divorce in Seattle fuels controversy over Nokia payout in Finland Stephen Elop, the former Nokia CEO who is returning to Microsoft as part of the Redmond company’s $7.2 billion acquisition… Read More
Extra-double confirmation: Bill Gates not returning as Microsoft CEO When asked, a number of top tech executives have said that Bill Gates sure seems like the man for the… Read More
