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So far, Bing’s March Madness ‘intelligent’ predictions aren’t beating the human crowd

Can a computer fill out a March Madness bracket better than humans? So far this year, it doesn’t look like… Read More

Microsoft and Publicis strike cloud partnership for data-driven ad targeting

Publicis Groupe is expanding its alliance with Microsoft — combining the ad company’s Cosmos A.I. marketing technology with the tech giant’s Azure cloud platform… Read More

Xbox GO Karts

Gaming gets a bedside boost with donation of 10 Xbox GO Karts to aid patients at Seattle hospital

Hospitalized children often crave any sort of distraction that might help them cope with their surroundings and whatever illness they’re dealing… Read More

Adobe unveils new Microsoft HoloLens and Amazon Alexa integrations

Adobe is in the middle of its big Summit conference, where it is introducing a variety of new technologies, including… Read More

Microsoft outage: Office 365, Xbox Live, Outlook, and more suffer account sign-in issues

Update: Here’s Microsoft’s statement, via a spokesperson: “We’re aware that some users are having difficulties logging in to some services. Our… Read More

U.S. Supreme Court set to hear arguments in decade-old Xbox 360 scratched-disc case

The U.S. Supreme Court is planning to hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Xbox 360 users against Microsoft over scratched… Read More

Microsoft offers insights on the future of Windows 10 updates and reboots

With the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft is planning to change the way Windows 10 users update their systems — and the… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft and Apple back Google in overseas data storage dispute

Fellow tech giants Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Cisco have come out in support of Google’s resistance to hand over data… Read More

Hands on with Microsoft Teams: All-in-one collaboration tool takes cues from relatives and rivals

Even though Microsoft just released its Teams enterprise collaboration tool today, there’s a familiar look and feel to a lot of the features,… Read More

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman joins Microsoft board following $26B acquisition

Microsoft announced today that LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has joined the company’s board of directors. Hoffman, who helped start LinkedIn in… Read More

Q&A: Microsoft Office chief Kirk Koenigsbauer on his ‘aha’ moment with Teams, the new culture under Satya Nadella, and the competition

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft commemorated the launch of its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in 181 markets around the… Read More

Inside look: How Slack, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams stack up in enterprise messaging

[Editor’s Note: Samir Diwan is the CEO of Seattle startup Polly, which makes a bot that runs polls and surveys in Slack,… Read More

Microsoft Teams launches globally, taking on Slack, Amazon, Google, others in high-stakes chat battle

REDMOND, Wash. — After four months in preview, Microsoft is officially launching its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in… Read More

Here’s what people at the big SXSW conference think of Seattle (hint: rain and Microsoft)

AUSTIN, TX — SXSW has turned into one of the world’s largest annual tech events, where thousands of people from across the globe… Read More

Podcast

A conversation with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen: ‘It really is a golden age of what’s possible’

If Paul Allen were just starting out in computer science today, he might not know where to start. Robotics, artificial intelligence, computer… Read More

Google Cloud launches new Windows partner program, aims to be ‘a great Windows platform’

No, the image above isn’t from a Microsoft event. That’s the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this morning, where… Read More

Microsoft says Google’s cloud reliability claim vs. Azure and Amazon Web Services does not compute

A comment today by Google’s top cloud executive, taking a subtle jab at Amazon Web Services, isn’t sitting well with Microsoft for… Read More

Microsoft’s #MakeWhat’sNext social campaign encourages more girls to stick with STEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjahbGqZu6U It’s a striking statistic: only 6.7 percent of women graduate with STEM degrees. It’s also the kicker for a new… Read More

Look out, Intel? Microsoft tries ARM processors in the cloud with Qualcomm partnership

Microsoft has started testing out ARM processors, power-efficient chips best known for running smartphones and other mobile devices, to run portions of… Read More

Microsoft set to take on Slack with global release of workplace chat app ‘Teams’ next week

Microsoft will release its answer to Slack, Microsoft Teams, on a global basis next week. The company is holding an… Read More

Microsoft Azure adds new data analytics, voice and facial recognition to its government cloud

Microsoft is beefing up its cloud capabilities for U.S. state and federal agencies, rolling out its PowerBI and HDInsight data… Read More

In new immigration twist, U.S. suspends option to pay for faster H-1B visa processing

Companies that bring software engineers and other highly skilled workers into the U.S. under H-1B visas will not be able to pay for… Read More

Microsoft Ventures joins $4.6M funding round for Swedish image service startup Pickit

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story stated that Microsoft Ventures led the investing round. It was a participant… Read More

Microsoft employees donate a record $142M to non-profits, and have a lot of fun along the way

Microsoft has again broken its record for employee giving, donating $142 million to nearly 19,000 charities last year. That’s a… Read More

Xbox introduces $9.99/month subscription service with access to 100 games like Halo, NBA2K, others

Microsoft today unveiled a new subscription service that gives Xbox owners another way to purchase and play games. Called “Xbox Game… Read More

EA exec and former Xbox leader Peter Moore to become CEO of Liverpool FC

After stints with Electronic Arts, Microsoft and SEGA, Peter Moore has landed his “dream” job — but not at a company… Read More

Microsoft donates $1M to new partnership of UW-UBC aiming to solve urban issues like traffic and homelessness through data

Microsoft is donating $1 million to a new partnership between the University of Washington and the University of British Columbia called the… Read More

Drone over water

Microsoft Ventures leads $26M round in AirMap, a startup that maps airspace in real time for drones

Microsoft and Airbus are investing in the future of autonomous drones that can communicate with one another as they fly… Read More

Ex-Microsoft Windows CMO launches data analytics-focused digital marketing firm Fjuri

Microsoft’s former Windows marketing chief is launching his own firm to help Fortune 500 companies improve their brand marketing strategies… Read More

HoloLens and engineering: How this earth sciences firm is using mixed reality to create 3D maps

When Sébastien Motte and John Howard launched their holographic computing development studio last year, they did not expect to be working with customers in… Read More

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