Motorola vs. Microsoft, Round 2: Judge deals blow to Google on eve of jury trial A long-running patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola will come to a head in federal court in Seattle this week… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Ballmer stepping down, Plants vs. Zombies 2, the ‘Jobs’ movie and a slice of Raspberry Pi We’ve got an epic GeekWire podcast for you this week, with an extended version of our weekly news segment, featuring… Read More
Reaction: Here’s what people are saying about Steve Ballmer’s stunning decision to step down from Microsoft Steve Ballmer’s retirement news today certainly grabbed the attention of the tech industry. (The top 13 stories on TechMeme are… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur starts petition asking Steve Ballmer to create $500M startup fund What’s Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer going to do next? That’s a question that folks around Seattle are wondering after the… Read More
Video: Here’s our inside take on Steve Ballmer’s exit (and potential successors) What’s behind Steve Ballmer’s exit as Microsoft CEO? Where does this leave the company? Is there more to the story… Read More
In the end, Ballmer’s biggest failing was his own optimism One of Steve Ballmer’s greatest attributes as Microsoft’s CEO has been his eternal optimism and enthusiasm — his ability to… Read More
From ‘Monkey Boy’ to Developers: 6 classic videos of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer We’ve loved watching Steve Ballmer over the years, talking about technology, and, yes, occasionally going nuts on stage. So, in… Read More
NBA, philanthropy, startup seed fund: What’s next for Steve Ballmer? The big news Friday morning hailed from Redmond with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s decision to retire within the next year.… Read More
Microsoft’s next CEO: Maritz, Sinofsky and more possible candidates to replace Ballmer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s decision to step down, announced this morning, is remarkable in part because it confirms the company’s… Read More
Poll: What do you think about Steve Ballmer stepping down? We already know how Wall Street feels about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s retirement plans. Shares of the company soared more… Read More
Full text: Microsoft CEO Ballmer’s email on his decision to step down Here’s the memo sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to employees this morning, announcing his plans to retire from the… Read More
Microsoft’s Ballmer retiring in 12 months, stock surges on news, no successor named In a massive and surprising shift for Microsoft and its longtime leader, the company announced this morning that embattled CEO Steve… Read More
Microsoft Research chief, computer science vet Peter Lee joins GeekWire Summit lineup We’re three weeks away from our biggest event of the year, the GeekWire Summit, and we’ve still got a few… Read More
Big-screen gaming: You can play Xbox on the new Husky Stadium jumbotron The new Husky Stadium at the University of Washington is going to be pretty freaking awesome when it re-opens next… Read More
How your Microsoft Points will turn into real money today Thursday marks the end of an era — the Microsoft Points era, that is. Starting today, transactions on the Xbox… Read More
Here’s how to get a sneak peek at the Xbox One You can’t get your hands on the Xbox One until sometime in November, but Microsoft is giving gamers a sneak… Read More
Windows 8: Lenovo brings back Start menu, sidesteps Windows Store with Pokki Lenovo, which recently took the title of world’s largest PC maker, is going around Microsoft to restore something much closer… Read More
Former Windows chief Sinofsky joins Andreessen Horowitz Steven Sinofsky, who left his job as Microsoft’s Windows president last year, has joined prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz… Read More
Delta equips 19,000 flight attendants with Windows Phones for in-flight use Delta Air Lines is giving a boost to Microsoft’s Windows Phone with a deal to equip its 19,000 flight attendants… Read More
Barnes & Noble isn’t making a deal with Microsoft anytime soon Just a few months ago, rumors swirled about Microsoft offering to pay $1 billion for Barnes & Noble’s NOOK digital… Read More
Microsoft hammers Google over ads in schools The Scrooglers have struck again. First it was Google Shopping, then came Gmail which was followed by Google Play. Now, Microsoft’s latest attack on… Read More
What to do with all those Surface RTs? A giant piano! Microsoft last month dropped the price of the Surface RT tablet to clear the shelves, and it’s giving more and… Read More
Microsoft awarding free Surface tablets with new ad-free ‘Bing for Schools’ initiative Use Bing, receive free Surface tablets. That’s the winning formula for the 800,000 students participating in Microsoft’s new “Bing for… Read More
Nap on the bus without missing your stop, and more innovations from Microsoft’s summer interns Cornell University student Peter Zieske likes to doze off on bus rides, and he has created an app to help others… Read More
Sony takes jab at Microsoft, touts consistency in maintaining ‘fair’ policies While Microsoft did a little flip-flopping with some of the Xbox One policies, Sony has remained steady with its rules for… Read More
Amazon deal: Swap your Xbox 360 game to Xbox One for $10 Amazon is offering up a deal for those who want to upgrade their Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One.… Read More
How the next ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ will leverage Microsoft’s Xbox One PopCap is already hitting it out of the park with the just-released Plants vs. Zombies 2 and the Seattle-based company… Read More
Microsoft: You will fail your college classes using an iPad It’s late August, and that means back to school at thousands of college campuses around the world. Aimed at university… Read More
Communication hub: Skype officially integrated with Outlook.com Outlook.com users who want to make Skype phone calls without opening up another app can now do so from their… Read More
Windows Phone Diary: Grappling with Microsoft’s ‘other storage’ problem I was feeling good Saturday morning, with a full weekend ahead and the news that Microsoft had released “Halo: Spartan… Read More
