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Microsoft: Xbox 360 on track for biggest year in Xbox history

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 landed atop the U.S. console market once again in July, according to a statement just released by… Read More

Microsoft’s Windows Phone market share falls below 2% — in 6th place behind Samsung Bada

Microsoft suddenly has a new competitive obstacle in its effort to rebound in the smartphone market. And its name is… Read More

Google Parcel Service? Search company patents electronic shipping notifications

Google’s battle against Microsoft and Apple over their use of “bogus” patents promises to result in greater scrutiny of its… Read More

How did Steve Jobs do it? Apple (briefly) tops Exxon Mobil to claim most valuable company title

It wasn’t that long ago that we were writing about Apple surpassing Microsoft to claim the title of the most… Read More

Spoof: What happens when Microsoft’s top execs carpool to work together

Following the leak of Microsoft’s recent “Gmail Man” spoof, a new video from the company’s annual sales confab has surfaced… Read More

Looking to remove the pain of venture investing, Microsoft BizSpark allies with CapLinked

Raising venture capital has pretty much worked the same way for years. Entrepreneurs hop on a plane or in a… Read More

Ignition leads $10 million round in New York’s Apprenda

We’ve been writing a lot lately about how Ignition Partners is transforming itself into a national firm, doing deals wherever… Read More

Fruit Ninja to give Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect some extra juice

Fruit Ninja debuts this week for Microsoft’s Xbox Live — using the Kinect motion sensor to let gamers slice through… Read More

Tech startups: Ice cream is great, but utilities make the world go around

Guest Commentary: Lately I have had a recurring theme running through my head – “didn’t I see that startup idea before,… Read More

Skype’s feature frenzy continues with Mac update, HD video calls

Skype seems to be savoring its final moments of independence with a flurry of new features. With Microsoft’s $8.5 billion… Read More

Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry

Microsoft veteran Charlie Kindel, who led the effort to get independent app developers on board with Windows Phone, is leaving… Read More

Microsoft figures out how to make a nearly perfect 3D model of the human face

You know you’re on to something in computer graphics when you get to explain in your research paper how you’ve advanced… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Sex, phones, Internet Explorer and Bitcoin

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we assess a new study that demonstrates just how devoted (or… Read More

Blind Microsoft engineer setting triathlon records

At the Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas competition three months ago, Microsoft software engineer Patricia Walsh put in an impressive time of 11… Read More

Bing brings mall maps to mobile: No more getting lost in the market (or J Crew)

A new mobile browsing option from Bing is going to make it a bit easier to find your way to… Read More

Google responds to Microsoft’s ‘gotcha’, and Microsoft fires back

Feel free to skip the soaps today — this little saga should be more than enough for your daily allotment… Read More

This is the guy who convinced everyone that IE users are dumb

His name is Tarandeep Gill. He’s a web developer and entrepreneur, a graduate of the Georgia Tech computer science program,… Read More

New Bungie film goes behind the games (Watch it with us)

Bungie, the Seattle-area game studio best known for the blockbuster Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, just released a nearly hour-long… Read More

Obama to pick ex-Microsoft executive as new CIO

Steven VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive, is expected to be chosen by President Barack Obama as the country’s next chief… Read More

Microsoft: Google declined invite to bid together on Novell patents

The war of words is escalating quickly between Microsoft and Google over patents and Android. Microsoft’s general counsel responded this… Read More

Digitizing the night sky … inside the UW’s planetarium

It’s a quiet, sunny summer afternoon at the University of Washington’s physics-astronomy complex. But inside the hushed, empty auditorium building,… Read More

Google: Microsoft, Apple trying to strangle Android with ‘bogus’ patents

[Follow-up: Microsoft says Google declined an invitation to bid together on Novell patents.] Google is fighting back publicly against what… Read More

Chart: Here’s how Bill Gates is giving away his billions

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pledged to give away the vast majority of his money. But how is the billionaire… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘BlueHat Prize’: $250k to focus hackers on security defense

Microsoft today announced a new program called the “BlueHat Prize,” offering a total of more than $250,000 in cash and… Read More

Good news, IE users: Media flunked IQ test, not you

[Update, 10:50 a.m.: The people behind “AptiQuant” now admit the study was a hoax, saying it “was all meant to be… Read More

UW computer science project automates time-lapse pictures

Inspired in part by people who take pictures of themselves every day, showing how they change over a period of… Read More

Verizon’s first 4G LTE netbook is a Windows 7 machine, sorta

Verizon Wireless this week is releasing its first netbook computer running on its 4G LTE network, and it represents a… Read More

Morning Radar: Windows Phone’s new logo, TechStars as reality TV, and more

Microsoft’s Windows Phone appears to be getting a new logo — shifting from a round icon to a square one that more… Read More

Skype on the iPad: Another (future) iOS app for Microsoft

OK, so Microsoft hasn’t actually completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype yet, but the long-awaited release of a native… Read More

How to navigate a Boeing 737 using Microsoft Kinect

Boeing is rolling out a new way to market its 737 airplane, using a bunch of the latest Microsoft technologies… Read More