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Xbox Live monthly active users reach record 55M, up 15% from last year

Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform continues to add more users as the company expands its gaming business across consoles and PC devices. As… Read More

Microsoft posts $26B in revenue, beating estimates in first report since closing LinkedIn acquisition

Microsoft reported revenue of more than $26 billion for the December quarter, with earnings of 84 cents a share, after adjusting… Read More

HoloLens

Microsoft’s HoloLens is a vital tool in trials aimed at revolutionizing the construction industry

Microsoft is making strides to ensure that the HoloLens could increasingly become a tool that architects, engineers and others in… Read More

AI sportswear startup Sensoria adds former Microsoft president to board

Sensoria is adding two former Microsoft execs to its leadership team. The Redmond, Wash.-based startup today announced that former Microsoft… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joining Starbucks board, giving coffee giant another jolt of tech experience

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been nominated to the Starbucks board, creating a new connection between the Seattle-area corporate titans… Read More

Sleep-deprived laptop user

Scientists use Microsoft Bands and Bing to link lack of sleep to cognitive impairment

It may not be surprising that lack of sleep leaves you less sharp, but researchers have now quantified the effect… Read More

Microsoft prevails again in dispute with Justice Department over customer data in Ireland

Microsoft won a victory today when a federal appeals court narrowly declined to rehear a case involving attempts by the U.S.… Read More

Starbucks, Microsoft, and others raise $4.5M in one month to open homeless family shelters

Seattle-area companies like Starbucks, Microsoft, and others came together in a big way this holiday season to provide temporary housing… Read More

Microsoft’s new chief technology officer is a longtime LinkedIn executive

Microsoft this morning named LinkedIn executive Kevin Scott as the Redmond tech giant’s chief technology officer, filling a newly established… Read More

Army general tries HoloLens

Microsoft’s HoloLens joins the military

Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality headsets have been used to fight video-game aliens in space, but now they’ve been enlisted for wargames on… Read More

Amazon campus

How Seattle’s office market became a ‘modern day gold rush’ thanks to Amazon and other tech giants

Amazon, with its more than 300,000 global employees, has emerged as one of the world’s corporate powerhouses. But the company’s impact is especially evident… Read More

Microsoft to cut about 700 jobs next week, following through on previously announced layoffs

Microsoft will cut about 700 jobs in conjunction with its quarterly earnings release next week, according to a report this afternoon… Read More

With Microsoft on its side, LinkedIn rolling out its largest desktop redesign ever

LinkedIn has a new look. The business social network, which Microsoft acquired last year for $26.2 billion, is rolling out… Read More

Time to dump Windows 7? Microsoft’s German subsidiary says popular OS ‘does not meet the requirements of modern technology’

A blog post by Microsoft Germany is urging users still hanging onto Windows 7 to make the switch to Windows 10,… Read More

Microsoft doubles down on 3D with acquisition of Swedish company Simplygon

At its big press conference in New York last year, Microsoft unveiled its upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, promising “3D for Everyone.” Now… Read More

Baidu hires ex-Microsoft exec Qi Lu as president, to lead new AI push for Chinese search giant

Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine, has hired former Microsoft executive Qi Lu as its group president and chief operating… Read More

Nadella at DLD

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gets the message about AI’s down side for jobs

Experts on employment trends have long raised concerns about how job markets are being disrupted so quickly by artificial intelligence… Read More

Xbox One tops PlayStation 4 for U.S. sales in second half of 2016

More than three years after debuting, Microsoft’s Xbox One console still continues to rack up the sales. The Redmond company… Read More

Lawsuit: Ex-Microsoft employees claim PTSD from jobs reviewing child porn and other ‘toxic content’

Two former Microsoft employees and their families have sued the company, alleging that they developed post-traumatic stress disorder due to their… Read More

Study: Microsoft Teams set to pass Slack, Google Hangouts as second most-used business chat app in next 2 years

Microsoft Teams isn’t even generally available to the public yet, but one report prognosticates that the new chat app will… Read More

For 24th straight year, IBM granted most U.S. patents, but Microsoft and Amazon are gaining

IBM is once again the king of patents, according to a new report, but other tech giants, including Pacific Northwest… Read More

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 privacy protections aim to give people more control over their data

Microsoft has released a new “privacy dashboard” for Windows 10 that the company says will let users exercise greater control over… Read More

Cortana in the car: Microsoft launches new automotive tech platform, strikes Renault-Nissan partnership

LAS VEGAS — Can Microsoft put itself in the driver’s seat in the new world of cars? After working for more… Read More

Microsoft plans big reorganization of partner and services groups starting Feb. 1

Microsoft is planning to consolidate many of its partner and services teams in a reorganization, as well as add a new… Read More

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A.I. isn’t as smart as you think it is. Take Microsoft’s Clippy, for example

LAS VEGAS — As artificial intelligence increasingly becomes part of our daily lives, it’s easy to see the technology as… Read More

The internet of beds? Microsoft exec teases the future of IoT, which could include 50 billion devices

LAS VEGAS — You may have heard about the internet of cows, but we may soon see the internet of beds… Read More

Say please, kids! Mattel’s new Cortana-powered smart hub can require good manners

LAS VEGAS — A new smart hub announced today by Mattel, targeted to kids and parents, is notable in part because… Read More

Qualcomm launches new Windows 10-friendly Snapdragon 835 processor

LAS VEGAS — Qualcomm launched the latest version of its widely used Snapdragon mobile processor line today, laying the foundation for… Read More

Satya Nadella
Podcast

Microsoft in 2016: Surging stock, new devices and a huge new AI team

Satya Nadella’s third year as CEO of Microsoft turned out to be a pretty good one. Microsoft closed the year… Read More

Microsoft could be first tech company to reach trillion-dollar market value, analyst predicts

Following Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, one analyst thinks the Redmond, Wash. tech giant is on pace to become… Read More

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