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Halo meets touch screens with ‘Spartan Assault’ for Windows 8, Windows Phone

Halo has been a huge boon to Microsoft’s Xbox franchise over the years. Can it help bring new fans to… Read More

Take that, This American Life? Here is Microsoft’s feel-good video about patents

Radio listeners around the country were given an inside look at the dark underbelly of the U.S. patent system this… Read More

Verizon exec: Big opportunity for Windows Phone in business market

Microsoft’s Windows Phone certainly trails Apple and Android by a substantial amount in terms of smartphone market share, but one Verizon… Read More

Study: Android still rules, but Windows Phone makes gains thanks to the kids

The latest numbers from Kantar show Windows continuing steady sales and, somewhat surprisingly, growing at a faster rate than those of… Read More

Ex-Microsoft VP emerges with stealth startup Highspot

Robert Wahbe, who spent 16 years at Microsoft as corporate vice president of product management in the Server and Tools… Read More

Here is the first-ever 8-inch Windows 8 tablet — starting at $380, running on Intel

Acer this morning officially unveiled its long-rumored Iconia W3 tablet, billed as the first 8-inch tablet to run Windows 8.… Read More

Microsoft CIO Tony Scott leaves to ‘focus on personal projects’

[Updated below with Microsoft confirmation and statement.] Tony Scott, who oversaw Microsoft’s internal IT operations for more than five years… Read More

Microsoft pokes fun at Apple and Google; Amazon.com’s amazing biodomes; and other top posts of the month

May was a busy, busy month for us here at GeekWire. We hosted more than 800 of you at our… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: The future of cars, and how the Internet is reshaping your ride

Our topic on the GeekWire radio show this week: The future of cars. We explore the rise of the car… Read More

Mobile manners: The top 5 most annoying cell phone pet peeves

Smartphones, for the most part, are pretty awesome tech tools. But they also pissed us off sometimes just as much as… Read More

Why Xbox One looks bland: You’re not meant to notice it

One of the most common criticisms of the new Xbox One is the console hardware itself, which has been widely… Read More

Ex-Microsoft manager acquiring medical cannabis dispensaries for national pot business

When he formally announced Diego Pellicer last December, Jamen Shivley said he wanted his marijuana business to be a “first-mover.” Now… Read More

Picture: IE11 is coming for Windows 8.1 — confirmed by Internet Explorer window

Windows 8 isn’t the only window getting an upgrade at Microsoft. Drivers passing by the Internet Explorer headquarters in Redmond… Read More

Windows Phone gets new Shazam app with Start screen song tagging

Shazam is rolling out a redesigned Windows Phone app with features including the ability to start identifying songs directly from… Read More

Microsoft’s $1M Vringo patent settlement comes with a Google twist

Microsoft will pay Vringo subsidiary I/P Engine $1 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit over technology originally developed by… Read More

Windows 8.1: Microsoft confirms Start button’s return and desktop bootup, plus new details

It’s official: the Start button is coming back to the Windows desktop … sorta. Microsoft just released a series of… Read More

While Microsoft expands across Pacific, Amazon’s China strategy remains hazy

Microsoft just announced a significant hiring increase in China and a renewed commitment to offering its cloud computing services in the country.… Read More

Google revamps Gmail inbox to filter graymail, following in footsteps of Outlook.com

Are we witnessing a new feature war in the world of webmail? Google this morning unveiled an overhauled version of… Read More

Microsoft Office 365 tops 1M Home Premium subscribers

Microsoft changed up its Office product in January by offering the productivity suite as a subscription for home users for the… Read More

Should Microsoft sell its Xbox business? Sorry, but it’s probably too late

The topic of splitting up Microsoft is one that I’ve spent a lot of time digging into over the years,… Read More

Sonics: Hansen expects Ballmer to stay on investment team until NBA is back in Seattle

From the sounds of it, Steve Ballmer appears committed to bringing NBA hoops back to the Emerald City. Two weeks… Read More

Xbox One game packaging revealed amid big changes for traditional discs

We’re getting our first look at the Xbox One game case design today thanks to Microsoft’s Major Nelson. It’s a clean… Read More

IDC: Tablets will conquer notebooks this year, surpass total PC market in 2015

Worldwide tablet shipments will grow by more than 58 percent this year, surpassing shipments of portable PCs for the first… Read More

Microsoft should consider selling Xbox and Bing businesses, says key analyst

Microsoft made the case for the future of the Xbox at a splashy unveiling last week, but one well-known Wall… Read More

Bye, bye Nook? B&N e-reader makes top 10 list of brands expected to die

Amazon.com may have killed it, and Microsoft may not be able to save it. Yes, Barnes & Noble’s e-reader device,… Read More

Microsoft melding Yammer, Office to combat corporate wariness of social tools

Social tools make it possible for workers to communicate and collaborate in all sorts of new ways, but is all… Read More

Amazon’s amazing biodome; Paul Allen’s abstract art; and other top stories of the week

It’s Memorial Day Weekend. So, before the BBQs fire up and the engines purr at Indy, we’d like to take a… Read More

GeekWire Radio: Getting to know Microsoft’s Xbox One

This week on the GeekWire radio show, we dive into the details of Microsoft’s newly unveiled Xbox One console —… Read More

Microsoft stacks up Surface vs. iPad with mixed results

Let’s see, the Surface RT is slightly heavier than the iPad, the same thickness and gets two hours less battery… Read More

Microsoft emerges as Waze investor, as Google and Facebook weigh $1B bids

Bloomberg News says this morning that Google may try to acquire Waze, the traffic and mapping technology company that Facebook… Read More