Touch-screen notebooks: My 2-year-old makes the case for Microsoft’s Windows 8 For better or worse, and somewhat against my will, my 2-year-old daughter has figured out my phone with astonishing speed… Read More
Microsoft’s ‘Socl’ search experiment takes a new turn Microsoft’s experimental social network, Socl, is rolling out a new design and updated tools more closely aligned with what early… Read More
The Bill Gates of bud? Former Microsoftie plans high-end marijuana business This probably wasn’t the post-Microsoft career Jamen Shively envisioned. But now that marijuana will soon become legal in Washington state,… Read More
Judge: Motorola can’t block sales of Xbox, Windows Motorola Mobility won’t be able to block the import and sale of Xbox or Windows, a federal judge in Seattle… Read More
Instant messaging: Yahoo cutting ties to Microsoft In a blog post late Friday, the Yahoo Messenger team announced that it’s cutting several features from the instant-messaging service… Read More
Geek of the Week: Microsoft’s new U.S. education leader makes an impact in Kenya Microsoft this morning named Margo Day as its new vice president of U.S. education, leading the team that works with… Read More
The creepy cameraman irks Seattleites; and other top posts of the month Can we catch our breath now? Team GeekWire was running 100 miles per hour during the month of November, a… Read More
Mobile market share: Android extends lead in wake of iPhone 5 launch Google continues to remain on top in the race for dominance in the American smartphone market, commanding a majority of… Read More
Here’s your chance to win a badass custom Xbox 360 that doubles as an Atari 2600 This just might be the coolest-looking Xbox 360 out there. To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the arcade classic Pong —… Read More
Newsmakers 2012: Surface GM Panos Panay represents Microsoft’s new era Microsoft’s decision to develop its own tablet computer was a historic moment for a company that built one of the… Read More
New Microsoft game studio in Vancouver wants to build the next Halo Microsoft is officially opening a new game studio in Canada and expectations are off the charts. Located in downtown Vancouver, B.C., Black Tusk… Read More
Microsoft’s Surface Pro: Yep, this feels like a tough sell When Microsoft’s Surface RT was released a little more than a month ago, one of the things we heard from… Read More
Microsoft exec: Seattle needs to avoid Detroit’s fate Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith delivered a pep talk followed by an alarm bell during a presentation this morning to… Read More
Stats: Windows consumer sales down 21% in U.S. since Windows 8 launch Unit sales of Windows PCs and tablets to consumers in the U.S. are down 21 percent since the Windows 8… Read More
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team pokes fun at haters with ‘comment troll’ video Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team is back with an updated version of its “Browser You Love(d) To Hate” online campaign, including… Read More
Ballmer: Sometimes Microsoft will just have to make its own hardware The headlines coming out of Microsoft’s annual shareholders meeting this morning focused on Steve Ballmer’s comment that Microsoft and its… Read More
Ballmer says Windows 8 users ‘get it, and like it’ Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is addressing the company’s annual shareholders meeting right now in Bellevue, Wash. He started by talking… Read More
Microsoft’s ‘Don’t get Scroogled’ campaign warns users about Google shopping ads Microsoft is attacking Google’s new shopping advertising model and they’ve even created a new word and website to prove it.… Read More
Longtime Microsoft analyst reduces estimates, cites ‘awkward’ Windows 8 launch Rick Sherlund, the veteran Wall Street analyst who has covered Microsoft since it went public, this morning reduced his earnings… Read More
Windows 8: Microsoft gives first glimpse of usage patterns How are new users interacting with Windows 8 and using its new features? It’s a key question given all the… Read More
Here’s more evidence that Microsoft and Amazon are planning their own smartphones Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was grilled by both Charlie Rose and Jimmy Fallon last week about the potential of an… Read More
Microsoft: 40M Windows 8 licenses sold in first month This just in from Microsoft: The company has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the Oct. 26 launch of… Read More
Xbox 360 Black Friday stats: 750,000 consoles, 72 million online hours We wrote yesterday about Nintendo selling more than 400,000 Wii U consoles last week. While it isn’t new and doesn’t have… Read More
Breaking down borders: Bing translator app now available for Windows Phone 8 Whether or not Microsoft is poised to lead the way in the tablet, video game and search engine arenas is… Read More
Microsoft’s data proves it: We’re obsessed with iPhone Tim Cook might want to send a thank you card to Steve Ballmer this morning. It should read like this:… Read More
Across the pond: Microsoft may open stores in Europe Big Ben, The Eiffel Tower, and now, Microsoft Stores. Sources familiar with Microsoft told the Financial Times that the company… Read More
Microsoft vet to lead new HBO engineering office in Seattle HBO has hired a longtime Microsoft manager, Drew Angeloff, as the vice president in charge of a new software development office… Read More
Windows 8 is a big hit … on budget PCs at Walmart How did Microsoft’s new Windows 8 fare on its first big holiday shopping weekend? Here’s an encouraging picture, submitted by… Read More
Barclays Bank makes a big buy, purchases 8,500 iPads These are the type of deals that must take the wind out of the sails of Microsoft a bit. A… Read More
Comments of the Week: Oprah ‘loves’ the Surface; Hastings’ Microsoft analysis; and more The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “[Microsoft has] many great assets and many great challenges.… Read More
