T. Rowe Price invests $190 million in Facebook: More validation for Steve Ballmer’s early bet Microsoft was criticized three years ago when it sunk $240 million into Facebook, valuing the upstart social networking company at… Read More
Xbox 360 on top of U.S. console market, again Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console sold 430,000 units in the U.S. in March, up 28 percent from the same month a… Read More
Photo of the Day: Internet Explorer Gets New Windows Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has been making a point lately of trying to stick to a steady schedule for updates.… Read More
Paul Allen on 60 Minutes: Book about history, not revenge against Bill Gates OK, we can finally let you in on a secret we’ve been keeping here at GeekWire: A “60 Minutes” crew… Read More
Microsoft data center GM leaves, reportedly for Apple The general manager in charge of Microsoft’s data center operations, Kevin Timmons, has left the company for a job at… Read More
Internet Explorer 10: Windows Vista users out of luck It might sound impossible, but Microsoft is about to make its Windows Vista operating system even more undesirable. The Redmond… Read More
Blog fight: Google calls Microsoft ‘irresponsible’ for calling Google ‘misleading’ Two days after Microsoft called Google out for “misleading” the U.S. government about a security certification for a Google product,… Read More
Inside Microsoft’s Kinect SDK Get ready for a new wave of Kinect applications on Windows PCs. One of Microsoft’s goals at its MIX conference… Read More
Priceline founder Jay Walker pulls a Paul Allen, sues nearly every big name in tech Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen surprised many in the tech industry last summer when he sued some of the biggest names… Read More
Revenge of the iPad? PC market tanks in first quarter New numbers this afternoon from the IDC research firm show worldwide PC shipments falling 3.2% during the first quarter —… Read More
Chart: Another record year for online advertising Despite a rocky economy, more dollars continue to shift to online advertising. And that could be good news for a… Read More
Speed test: Windows Phone IE9 vs. iPhone 4 and Android At Microsoft’s MIX conference in Las Vegas this morning, the company announced a series of enhancements for the next version… Read More
Ex-Microsoft employee charged with stealing $450k from company Federal prosecutors in Seattle have charged a former Microsoft business development director, Robert D. Curry, with three counts of wire… Read More
IE10? Yep, Microsoft gives early preview of next browser Fresh off the release of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft this morning gave the first small glimpse of its plans for… Read More
Former Microsoft GM Anna Collins named president of PhotoRocket Anna Collins, a former general manager at Microsoft, has been tapped as president of PhotoRocket. Collins spent the past seven… Read More
Sneak peek: Is this Microsoft’s Windows 8 App Store? Microsoft’s early planning documents for Windows 8, the next version of the PC operating system, suggested that the company was… Read More
The project that just won Microsoft’s U.S. Imagine Cup Earlier today I stopped by the Microsoft campus in Redmond to check out many of the finalists in the company’s… Read More
Data: Bing, Yahoo gain on Google Microsoft Bing and Yahoo both posted gains in the U.S. search market in March, lifting their combined market share to… Read More
Windows app store Allmyapps reaches 100,000 users Allmyapps, an online app store for Windows PC reminiscent of Apple’s App Store for Mac, this morning announced that it… Read More
Microsoft calls Google out after U.S. disputes Google Apps for Gov’t security claim Documents unsealed last week by a federal court, and posted online by Microsoft this morning, show the U.S. government disputing… Read More
Microsoft ‘TouchStudio’ uses phone to program phone The capabilities of mobile phones have come a long way in the past few years, but a new Windows Phone… Read More
Early Microsoft partner HTC rides Android past new Microsoft partner Nokia Microsoft and HTC tied their fortunes together in the emerging smartphone market a decade ago, back when people were still… Read More
U.S. lets Google’s ITA deal fly, with some baggage The U.S. Justice Department and Google have reached a deal clearing the way for the search giant’s $700 million acquisition… Read More
Comcast iPad app adopts Microsoft media technology In a bit of cross-lake collaboration, Microsoft is now working with thePlatform, Comcast’s Seattle-based tech subsidiary, to integrate some of… Read More
‘Hoarders’ psychologist helps me stop being a digital packrat A couple weeks ago I cleared more than 10,000 emails from my primary personal webmail inbox, dating back almost three… Read More
Facebook shakes things up, shares data center secrets Facebook today took the unusual step of starting to share with the world the techniques it has developed to make… Read More
Will Windows Phone surpass the iPhone by 2015? Gartner thinks so We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Microsoft is way behind in mobile. But the company, which is… Read More
Microsoft releases first iPad app, Bing, and it looks slick Yes, Microsoft aspires to topple Apple’s iPad, but the company also hopes to come from behind against Google. And in… Read More
Follow-up: What Microsoft and Toyota are actually doing, and how it’s different The news today that Microsoft and Toyota are working on a cloud computing system for cars — described by the… Read More
How Facebook’s new Seattle engineers put its mobile revamp months ahead Seattle is Facebook’s first major remote engineering base outside its Palo Alto HQ, so it’s a test case for future… Read More
