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Video: Bill Gates wrote the checks, and Melinda drove the vision for foundation campus

Bill Gates may have written the checks for his foundation’s beautiful new $500 million campus in the heart of Seattle.… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: Microsoft’s ‘Ben the PC Guy’ on the new ‘Golden Age of PC Design’

Sure, Windows 8 looks snazzy with that tile interface and stuff, but what are you going to buy in the… Read More

WSJ report: A wave of Silicon Valley giants arrive on Seattle’s shores

Silicon Valley tech giants have been flocking to Seattle in recent for months, with companies such as Facebook, Salesforce.com and… Read More

Windows 8: A radical change for Windows, and a huge gamble for Microsoft

Early versions of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, developed a decade ago, had the feel of the Windows PC desktop. The theory… Read More

Skype, Sparkbuy, Steve Ballmer at USC and other top stories for May

At a Belltown coffee shop yesterday, I spotted a guy at a nearby table reading GeekWire. I got a bit… Read More

Windows 8, the first real glimpse: Tiles on a tablet

[Updated below] Microsoft’s Windows 8 will offer new start screen optimized for tablet/slate computers that uses a tile interface reminiscent… Read More

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on his Microsoft board position, Steve Ballmer dustup

Following Google chairman Eric Schmidt’s digs at Microsoft last night, the Redmond company continued to serve as a subplot at… Read More

Last words from a Sidekick 3: ‘iPhone can suck it’

Last night, as the clock ticked down toward the shutdown of the online service for legacy T-Mobile Sidekick devices, I… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Microsoft ‘not driving the consumer revolution’

There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many… Read More

Chart: Steve Ballmer’s approval rating plummets among Microsoft employees

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn created a stir last week when he suggested that it was time for Steve… Read More

Microsoft Bing takes Streetside out of the bubble

Microsoft today rolled out a new version of its Streetside feature for Bing Maps that is getting some credit for… Read More

Apple brings iWork to iPhone, Microsoft’s Mac unit still mum on Office for iPhone

Apple this morning debuted versions of its iWork productivity applications for iPhone and iPod touch, adapting the Pages word processing,… Read More

Nokia, struggling against Android, looks to Windows Phone this year

Nokia this morning dropped a bomb with new sales forecasts “substantially below” its previous expectations for the current quarter. The… Read More

Microsoft cashing in on Android? Amazing, yet not surprising

We’ve known for a while that Microsoft was getting a cut of HTC’s sales of Android devices, under a patent… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Lady Gaga crashes Amazon, iPads in the cockpit, and Ben the PC Guy

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guest is Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph, better known as “Ben the PC Guy,” who… Read More

From Danger to Android: The saga of the T-Mobile Sidekick

One of the iconic devices of the mobile revolution, the T-Mobile Sidekick, will reach a milestone next Tuesday with the… Read More

Analyst: Microsoft can still be a player in tablets

Microsoft is certainly playing a tough game of catch-up against Apple’s iPad. But the software giant can make a comeback… Read More

Q&A: VMWare CTO Steve Herrod on cloud competition and the future of apps

Steve Herrod, chief technology officer for VMWare, made a swing through Seattle today, amid news that the company is planning a… Read More

Microsoft board backs Ballmer after hedge fund manager calls for CEO’s resignation

Investor David Einhorn stirred up a hornet’s nest earlier this week when the hedge fund manager reportedly said that Microsoft CEO… Read More

Microsoft takes heat after Skype outage enrages users

Microsoft doesn’t even own Skype yet, but it is already taking blame for an outage that impacted some users of… Read More

Hedge fund manager calls for Microsoft’s Ballmer to step aside

Multiple reports this afternoon quote influential and controversial hedge fund manager David Einhorn, a longtime Microsoft shareholder, saying that it’s… Read More

Microsoft’s MSN releases ‘Onit’ app for iPhone, iPad

Microsoft this morning continued its steady pace of app development for Apple’s iOS, as the company’s MSN unit released a… Read More

Who will Microsoft buy next: LinkedIn, Citrix, BlueKai or the maker of Angry Birds?

Microsoft made a big bet earlier this month when it gobbled up Skype for $8.5 billion, a move that got… Read More

BlueStacks brings Android apps to Windows, raises cash from ex-Microsofties

Have you ever wanted to take your favorite Android games, news or travel apps to your Windows PC? A new… Read More

Now leaving: The guy who led Microsoft’s iPad rival … years before the iPad existed

Long before Apple introduced the iPad, Otto Berkes and his team at Microsoft were working on devices called UltraMobile PCs… Read More

Microsoft vet Dave Chase sets out to fix the ‘broken’ health care system with Avado

There’s perhaps no industry as screwed up in America as health care. And Dave Chase, who helped create the healthcare… Read More

Why Microsoft is still fighting a $1.3 billion European fine from last decade

It was like a blast from the past this morning to wake up to news that Microsoft was back in… Read More

Windows Phone ‘Mango’: The phone is the app — but can it improve Microsoft’s chances?

Since the beginning, Microsoft’s strategy with Windows Phone has been to create a unified experience across the device — drawing… Read More

Video: ‘Halo’ Spartan blows up mini-fridge to pitch Windows

Microsoft’s Windows team seems to have figured out a thing or two about marketing to college students. Not only is… Read More

Microsoft loosening the lid on Windows 8?

[Updated below with Microsoft’s statement on Ballmer’s comments] Two separate developments today suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to… Read More