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Mobile vets: Windows Phone is great, but it has a long way to go to catch Apple and Android

We brought together some of the top thinkers in the mobile industry Wednesday afternoon for the GeekWire Summit in Seattle.… Read More

Q&A: Ray Ozzie on startups, Microsoft, and what he’s dreaming up next

[Updated with video above] Our opening conversation at the GeekWire Summit featured Ray Ozzie, the online collaboration pioneer and former… Read More

Microsoft ‘Cliplets’ project blends video and still images

Microsoft Research is showing a new project called “Cliplets” that lets users turn video clips into something closer to a… Read More

Microsoft’s smartphone share slips: Apple, Google gain steam

Despite relatively positive reviews of its Windows Phone mobile operating system, Microsoft is still having a hard time grabbing marketshare… Read More

Audiogalaxy music service is reborn, with a new approach

Audiogalaxy, one of the original music file-sharing services and “one of the greatest defunct websites of all time,” marked its return… Read More

Microsoft devices win Skype certification, avoid awkward family conversation

Skype said this morning that its impartial labs have given its “Skype Certified” seal of approval to all of Microsoft’s HD… Read More

Amazon Web Services cuts prices again, cites lower costs

Amazon Web Services announced another round of price reductions in its services for data storage, processing and computing in the… Read More

Activision hires Microsoft game exec as new finance chief

Game publisher Activision Blizzard just named a new chief financial officer: Microsoft veteran Dennis Durkin, a key executive from the… Read More

Search by sketch: Microsoft seeks patent on ‘MindFinder’

It’s a little like playing Pictionary with a search engine — drawing a sketch and seeing if the algorithm can… Read More

Quotes of the week: Seattle is a ‘red dwarf’ and Silicon Valley is the sun

The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week … “I think there are great investors and great… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Windows 8, Apple, BuddyTV and a new era in the digital living room

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we chat with BuddyTV CEO Andy Liu about all the changes… Read More

Tech Moves: Vernon out at Zulily; Microsoft hires FTC attorney who slammed Google; and more

Less than a year after arriving at fast-growing Seattle daily deal startup Zulily, chief financial officer Michael Vernon has left… Read More

Desktop of the future? Microsoft tests transparent PC display with Kinect controls

In addition to a high-tech grocery cart and an augmented-reality mirror, one of the futuristic projects on display at Microsoft’s TechForum event… Read More

A whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on: The top 10 posts in February

Sometimes, it’s just a little hard to catch our breath around here at the GeekWire HQ. And February was certainly… Read More

Microsoft’s Windows Azure suffers extended outages

Updated below with new information from Microsoft, saying service has been restored to the majority of customers. Microsoft’s cloud computing… Read More

Siri or not, Microsoft aims to beat Apple with better breadth

Earlier this week, Microsoft’s research and strategy chief Craig Mundie and other execs spent the day showing reporters some of… Read More

Hands-on: Microsoft’s Windows 8 shows steady progress in consumer preview

This feels solid. That was my first thought as I began using the new Windows 8 Consumer Preview, which is… Read More

Microsoft’s next CEO: If not Steven Sinofsky, then who?

Leading up to the debut of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview tomorrow, Reuters is out with an extensive story about… Read More

Sneak Peek: Comcast Xfinity on Microsoft’s Xbox Live

Comcast’s Xfinity app for Xbox Live is still “coming soon,” but Microsoft gave a sneak preview on Monday as part of… Read More

Microsoft shows ‘Holoflector’ augmented-reality mirror

This afternoon at the Microsoft TechForum event in Redmond, the company’s researchers showed a series of prototypes and demos in… Read More

Whole Foods prototype puts Kinect on shopping cart, follows people around store

The quest for a high-tech “shopping cart of the future” is nothing new, but Whole Foods is planning to test… Read More

Video: How social algorithms shape Microsoft’s msnNOW

Microsoft’s new msnNOW portal combines data from social networks and search, along with some editorial judgment, to provide a view… Read More

Mundie: Microsoft positioned to eliminate the ‘cacophony’ of modern computing

At a small event in Redmond this morning, Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, is providing an update on… Read More

Nokia debuts cheaper Windows Phone, upstages it with 41MP Symbian phone

Nokia this morning confirmed plans to release a new Windows Phone called the Lumia 610, taking advantages of changes in… Read More

Microsoft brings Skype to Windows Phone, finally

At long last, Microsoft just released Skype for Windows Phone, albeit a few months later than originally expected and not… Read More

Nokia, Microsoft to expand battle vs. Android and iPhone

The mobile industry will be gathering in Barcelona, Spain, this week for the big Mobile World Congress, providing a glimpse… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Google glasses, Office on iPad, and a big picture of the mobile world

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, on the eve of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we… Read More

Samsung’s Android Street Challenge: A ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ knockoff?

Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph has been getting lots of attention lately for his “Smoked by Windows Phone” contests, in which he… Read More

Why this gamer just lost his username on Xbox Live

Christopher Gooche has been a loyal fan of Xbox Live for many years, using his last name of “Gooche” as… Read More

Estimate: 2.7M Windows Phones shipped in Q4, Nokia now top vendor

Nokia shipped an estimated 900,000 Windows Phones in the fourth quarter, quickly making it the largest vendor of Microsoft smartphones,… Read More