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Microsoft

Mick Jagger’s new music studio: Paul Allen’s megayacht

Where does someone like Mick Jagger go to record a new album when he’s seeking the ultimate in privacy and… Read More

Microsoft startup film to debut at Napa Valley Film Festival

Microsoft has made a full-length feature film — a professionally produced documentary on the startup life, of all things —… Read More

Chart of the Week: IBM > MSFT

Apple made headlines when it surpassed Microsoft in market value, the stock market’s measure of a company’s overall worth. And… Read More

Microsoft issues fix after security tool mistakenly removes Google Chrome as malware

Uh, whoops? Microsoft this morning scrambled to release a fix after reports surfaced that its Security Essentials software was mistakenly… Read More

Microsoft idea: Kinect body scans could estimate age, automate parental controls

Sorry, kid, but you’ve got the arms of a 12-year-old, and you’re not watching the Spice Channel tonight. That’s the… Read More

Microsoft Zune cuts price, moves away from monthly song credits

Microsoft’s Zune music service today announced plans to reduce its monthly subscription rate to $9.99, from the current $14.99, but… Read More

Geek of the Week: Jeff Teper, father of Microsoft SharePoint

Our latest Geek of the Week, Jeff Teper, had been at Microsoft for about six years in 1998 when he… Read More

Estimate: Microsoft making $444M a year on Android

Microsoft’s royalties from its patent claims on Google Android devices are now in the range of $444 million a year,… Read More

Microsoft’s big Skype acquisition faces opposition in Europe

Skype competitor Messagenet is asking European regulators to prevent Microsoft from integrating Skype with Windows as a condition of approval… Read More

Excerpts: Microsoft Research chief Rick Rashid on the past two decades, and the future

Microsoft Research is marking its 20th anniversary this week, now encompassing some 850 computer scientists. Its leader, chief research officer… Read More

Will Microsoft get patent royalties from Amazon’s Kindle Fire?

Jeff Bezos just announced a new Kindle Fire tablet based on Google’s Android operating system. Steve Ballmer says Microsoft deserves… Read More

California firm to purchase 63 acres for massive data center in central Washington

Quincy, Washington — an agricultural town near the Columbia River in central Washington — continues to attract technology companies in… Read More

Samsung to pay Microsoft for Android under new patent deal

[UPDATED] Microsoft and Samsung, the world’s No. 2 smartphone maker behind Apple, just announced a patent licensing agreement that gives Samsung… Read More

Windows Phone Mango: Microsoft’s next challenge is in stores

Microsoft started rolling out its Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update to the world Tuesday, promising “a simultaneous, coordinated, global update that… Read More

Microsoft dismantles Kelihos botnet

Microsoft’s ongoing battle against nasty botnets has continued, with the company announcing today that it has dismantled the Kelihos botnet… Read More

Microsoft Research demo: Augmented reality with Kinect, tablet, distributed computing

Here in Redmond this morning, Microsoft Research is marking its 20th anniversary as the company’s basic research unit. In addition… Read More

Microsoft meeting sparks another round of Ballmer bashing

Steve Ballmer is taking it on the chin yet again this week, this time for a reportedly uninspired performance at… Read More

Microsoft Research overhauls Bing search backend with ‘Tiger’ project

Can Microsoft Tiger take a bite out of Google? The Redmond company tonight released the first details of a collaboration… Read More

Windows 8 and Windows Live ID: Microsoft’s privacy policy

Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system will come with the optional ability to sign in using a Windows Live ID,… Read More

Apple to revamp Seattle store across from new Microsoft site

Apple plans to renovate its 8-year-old store in Seattle, upgrading its location in the University Village shopping center with many… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Facebook, Netflix, comic books and the Greatest American Hero

We’ve got a big menu of topics on this weekend’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, starting with a discussion of… Read More

Ex-Microsoft worker going to jail for 33 months for fraud

Robert Curry, a 41-year-old former Microsoft manager, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison and ordered to pay $459,341… Read More

One place for daily deals: Microsoft Bing’s new aggregation site

Microsoft this morning launched Bing Deals, aiming to make its search engine a destination for the wide variety of daily… Read More

Fresh off its PopCap buy, EA taps Microsoft vet Rajat Taneja as CTO

Electronic Arts, which just spent up to $1.3 billion on Seattle-based PopCap Games, is discovering even more talent from the… Read More

India’s HCL arrives in Redmond with big growth plans

HCL Technologies, which has morphed from one of India’s “garage startups” into a multi-billion dollar IT services juggernaut, has established… Read More

Does Google have monopoly power? Watch Eric Schmidt dance around this one

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing yesterday on Google was closely watched for parallels to Microsoft’s antitrust quagmire of the… Read More

Q&A: How an automotive secret can make for better software

Having studied the work of W. Edwards Deming and other pioneers in just-in-time auto production back in college, I was… Read More

Bill Gates still richest in U.S., but Jeff Bezos is climbing the charts

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held on to his title as richest American with a net worth of $59 billion, marking… Read More

Microsoft joins $61 million financing round for Adchemy

You don’t typically see Microsoft get involved in venture capital rounds. But the software giant announced today that it is… Read More

Excerpt: Google to cite Bing’s growth in antitrust defense

It will be a very interesting day for the technology industry in Washington, D.C., as the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee… Read More

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