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Microsoft, Toyota join forces on cloud computing for cars

Microsoft and Toyota have entered a new strategic partnership to build a next-gen information and telecommunications platform for Toyota’s vehicles… Read More

Apple throws Microsoft’s Mac Office a MobileMe curveball

Microsoft next week will release the first service pack for its Office for Mac 2011 suite, with new features including… Read More

Meet Microsoft’s new marketing boss: Chris Capossela

The guy who previously headed marketing for Microsoft’s Office products is now taking on that role for the entire company.… Read More

Microsoft + Toyota: Cars or the cloud … or both?

Microsoft and Toyota will be announcing a “new collaboration between the companies” on Wednesday afternoon, and the involvement of CEOs… Read More

Microsoft shifts Hohm away from homes, focuses on electric cars

Microsoft unveiled the Hohm service in order to help home owners get a better sense of their energy consumption. But nearly… Read More

Why Nasdaq is giving Apple less weight, and Microsoft more

Nasdaq this morning sent a wave through the stock market with the announcement that that it will “rebalance” its closely… Read More

How to write on a Nordstrom window with Microsoft’s Kinect

Nordstrom’s flagship store in downtown Seattle is currently featuring a neat little technological trick, allowing passersby to write and doodle… Read More

Nerd Notes: Volcanoes, sports, sneakers and moonbuggys

Sci-fi fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin feels cheated by the “Lost” finale. Lost co-creator Damon Lindeloff feels like starting a… Read More

Virtual reality visionary Jaron Lanier on his Microsoft gig: Kinect is ‘beautiful, exciting’

https://youtu.be/-Vc9GMGZurY A while back I got a chance to sit in on a session with Jaron Lanier, the guy credited… Read More

Windows Phone 7 update with no wait … if you dare

The first major update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS, dubbed “NoDo,” has been a long wait, particularly for people… Read More

Microsoft unveils new Xbox hardware … for game developers

Microsoft today announced a new piece of Xbox hardware that could make Xbox 360 games better, in the long… Read More

How Windows Phone apps could run on Windows 8

A new leak gives the first real glimpse of what to expect in a special Windows 8 interface for tablets,… Read More

Paul Allen violates the rules of ‘Seattle Nice,’ and that’s not such a bad thing

Paul Allen’s raw retelling of the early days at Microsoft in his upcoming memoir, “Idea Man,” surprised some in the… Read More

Google bids $900M for Nortel patents, but Microsoft already has them in the bag

[Post updated at 1:45 p.m. with clarification of Microsoft’s rights to these patents under a previous licensing deal with Nortel.]… Read More

India wins the Cricket World Cup, and 1,000 geeks in Redmond go wild

The citizens of Calcutta, Mumbai and Bangalore erupted in joy Saturday night as India defeated Sri Lanka in the Cricket… Read More

Google’s April Fool’s Day joke, Gmail Motion, comes to life via a Kinect hack

The April Fool’s Day joke from Google — Gmail Motion — may not be too far afield after all. Some… Read More

Microsoft’s Windows 8 recipe: Hint of Office, dash of Xbox, ounce of Windows Phone

Microsoft has already hinted that it wants to make Windows more like Xbox by supporting the Kinect sensor technology and… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Allen vs. Gates, Amazon Cloud Drive, Giant Thinkwell +1

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we recap a strange week in tech news, including our first glimpse of Paul… Read More

Chart: Google Android continues to soar, while Windows Phone slumps

You’d think by this time Microsoft might have regained some of its mojo in mobile. But the latest report from… Read More

Study: Microsoft’s Ballmer sees approval rating decline

Take this with a grain of salt, like a U.S. presidential approval rating based on a limited survey, but the latest… Read More

Microsoft filing antitrust complaint vs. Google in Europe

Microsoft is back in the middle of an antitrust case in Europe, but this time it’s the one with the… Read More

Windows Phone says its apps are real, not padded

What is it with these Microsoft groups feeling the need to publicly defend their numbers all of a sudden? The… Read More

Microsoft’s IE team: Pay no attention to those stats … yet

Much has been made over the past week about Firefox 4 trouncing Internet Explorer 9 in total downloads since the… Read More

Report: Paul Allen book has ‘created a rift’ with Bill Gates

In telling the story of his early days with Bill Gates, a new memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen appears… Read More

Bill Gates and Paul Allen: The raw truth, as told by Allen

The first excerpt from Paul Allen’s upcoming memoir, Idea Man, was published online by Vanity Fair tonight. After reading it,… Read More

Nightly Notes: Nintendo 3DS, Amazon’s Scratchpad, Android, Space Shuttles and spam

First-day U.S. sales of the Nintendo 3DS set a new company record. Look next for aspirin shortages. The record labels… Read More

Report: Windows Phone to add NFC mobile payments

One of the biggest buzzwords in the mobile industry right now is NFC, or Near Field Communication — a short-range… Read More

Microsoft uses Amazon to bolster Apple ‘App Store’ fight

Microsoft’s fight against Apple’s attempt to trademark the phrase “App Store” took on new significance last week when Apple sued… Read More

Stats: Hotmail still on top worldwide; Gmail gets bigger

While researching this morning’s story about the latest interactive features from Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, I realized it had been… Read More

Prediction: Windows Phone will top iPhone by 2015

A new study from the IDC research firm predicts that Microsoft’s Windows Phone will surpass the iPhone and Blackberry in… Read More