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Microsoft delays major Xbox One X title Crackdown 3 to 2018, leaving hole in launch lineup

Microsoft is delaying the release of the highly anticipated game Crackdown 3 from Nov. 7, the same day the new… Read More

Brad Smith and student

Microsoft President Brad Smith goes back to school to surprise math student who wrote him a letter

When Fernley, Nev., middle school student Sky Yi was assigned to write a letter to a favorite business, to learn… Read More

Microsoft AI sailplane

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Microsoft using artificial intelligence to teach a machine to stay aloft

Paying attention to the “rise of the machines” increasingly means scanning the skies for things other than conventional aircraft or… Read More

Microsoft continues its push into serverless tech with Azure Event Grid

Microsoft is making a big bet on serverless technologies this year, and it continued that push Wednesday with the release… Read More

Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing for its high-performance cloud computing expertise

Microsoft acquired Cycle Computing Tuesday, in a deal that should bolster its high-performance computing pitch to current and future Azure… Read More

Bill Gates’ stake in Microsoft dips below 2% with $4.6 billion stock gift

Bill Gates made a gift of 64 million Microsoft shares in June, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing… Read More

Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise

Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping… Read More

Consumer Reports pulls recommendation for Microsoft Surface laptops and tablets, citing reliability issues

Consumer Reports is no longer recommending several Microsoft Surface laptops and tablets, reporting that approximately a quarter of the machines… Read More

NFL medical staff and referees will use Microsoft Surface tablet on the sidelines this season

As Microsoft enters the final year of its reported $400 million deal with the NFL, the Surface tablet will be… Read More

Microsoft is working on its own commercial blockchain framework, expected to arrive in 2018

Starting next year, Microsoft plans to release an open-source framework that will allow businesses to implement blockchain technologies as part… Read More

Microsoft rolls out Outlook.com beta program to test new features fueled by AI and design changes

Microsoft today announced Outlook.com Beta, a new opt-in program that lets users try new features powered by artificial intelligence and… Read More

Spotify arrives on Xbox Live as Microsoft revamps Xbox dashboard with ‘Fluent Design’

Xbox Live is getting a new look. Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned homepage for Xbox Live that gives users… Read More

Microsoft’s Twitch rival Mixer sees ‘crazy awesome’ growth, aims to maintain its focus on community

Almost a year ago, Microsoft acquired the Seattle-based Beam game streaming service, a member of the TechStars Seattle 2016 class,… Read More

New numbers show how Microsoft’s biggest businesses are really doing in the cloud era

Numbers released this week put Microsoft’s new era into clearer focus. The takeaway: The big Microsoft businesses that have shifted… Read More

Microsoft reportedly testing Spotify app for Xbox

Streaming music service Spotify is coming to the Xbox One more than two years after it debuted on rival PlayStation… Read More

NFL referees use Microsoft Surface tablet for replay review, replacing ‘under-the-hood’ monitor

NFL players and coaches won’t be the only ones using a Microsoft Surface tablet on the sidelines this season. NFL… Read More

Microsoft’s new corporate vision: artificial intelligence is in and mobile is out

Microsoft filed its annual report Wednesday, and among the many pages of documents and numbers are insights on what the… Read More

Sounders explore new naming rights deals as Microsoft Xbox jersey sponsorship expires

The Sounders may look a little different after the 2018 season — aesthetically speaking, at least. Seattle’s MLS club announced… Read More

PayPal partners with Microsoft’s Skype, lets users send money to each other via messaging app

Skype users can now send money to one another thanks to a new partnership with PayPal. Called “Send Money,” the… Read More

Leader of Microsoft Mixer streaming service wants Apple to enable live screen broadcasts in iOS 11

Apple hinted at the possibility of live screen broadcasting from the iPhone and iPad in July with the appearance of… Read More

Podcast

What these teen tech entrepreneurs think about Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, AI, the cloud and more

Michael Royzen and Atul Ajoy have several things in common, besides being high-school students in the Seattle region. They’re both… Read More

Catching up with former Microsoft exec and Seattle Storm co-owner Lisa Brummel

Lisa Brummel may have retired after 25 years at Microsoft, but the former executive is still certainly keeping busy. GeekWire… Read More

Inspired by company hackathon, Microsoft to add eye-tracking support for Windows 10

What started as a request from Steve Gleason at Microsoft’s internal hackathon has turned into a new Windows 10 feature… Read More

Microsoft targets Google and Apple in schools with ‘Surface Plus’ hardware subscription program

Microsoft is launching a new subscription program for buying Surface computers and tablets in much the same way that many… Read More

Microsoft pulls Word Flow keyboard for iOS, directing users to SwiftKey

Microsoft has pulled the Word Flow keyboard, an app designed to bring typing capabilities from the Windows Phone to iOS.… Read More

What Microsoft thinks Washington state lawmakers got right last session — and what they should prioritize now

Microsoft wants the Washington state legislature to prioritize STEM education, criminal justice reform, workplace equity, cloud computing for the public… Read More

Czech student team wins 2017 Microsoft Imagine Cup with innovative approach to manage diabetes

And the winner of Microsoft’s 2017 Imagine Cup is … X.GLU, a team of student developers from the Czech Republic… Read More

Microsoft unveils Azure Container Instances, joins Cloud Native group, isolating AWS on Kubernetes

Microsoft’s cloud business is making two notable moves involving containers Wednesday — unveiling a new service that aims to make… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to student innovators: You’ve won the lottery — spend it wisely

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has a message for 54 student teams from 39 countries that descended upon the company’s Redmond,… Read More

Microsoft Paint will live on after outpouring of support for 32-year-old program

On Sunday, Microsoft put the apparently beloved drawing program Paint on a list of features to be removed or deprecated in the Windows… Read More

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