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Pivotal raises $253M from Microsoft, Ford and other big-name investors

San Francisco-based software development company Pivotal has landed $253 million in additional funding, at a reported $2.8 billion valuation, bringing Microsoft… Read More

Tech Moves: Stack Overflow hires former Microsoft GM as CMO; Amazon hires Xerox PARC vet for Alexa R&D; and more

— Stack Overflow, the popular online community and Q&A site for programmers, has hired Adrianna Burrows, a former Microsoft general manager, as… Read More

Windows 10 now on 300M devices, but Microsoft warns free upgrades will end July 29

Windows 10 is now running on 300 million active devices, Microsoft announced this morning, adding about 30 million users since the Build conference… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Why the U.S. needs better laws to balance privacy and national security

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling for the U.S. government to establish a better framework of laws to create a “new equilibrium” between… Read More

Video: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Tech Alliance in Seattle

Update: The live stream has ended but you can watch the archive below. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will take the… Read More

Microsoft sells 50% stake in Caradigm healthcare startup to GE

Microsoft is no longer an investor in Bellevue-based healthcare startup Caradigm, selling off its stake this month to General Electric.… Read More

Microsoft’s IFTTT competitor ‘Flow’ released with Office, Dropbox, GitHub integrations

The service known as IFTTT (If This Then That) has become the backbone for tons of neat integrations. You can… Read More

Windows users get Facebook, Instagram, Messenger updates for latest Microsoft OS

Facebook is bringing its latest features to the social network’s Windows apps today, with updates to the main Facebook app as well… Read More

Apple continues to outsell everyone else in tablet market, but Amazon is gaining ground

Interest in the tablet market proceeds to wane, according to new numbers from IDC out today. Tablet shipments fell nearly 15… Read More

Video: Microsoft Windows 10 nag interrupts live TV weather forecast

Microsoft is doing its best to get Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to make the free upgrade to Windows 10… Read More

Adobe partners with Box, Microsoft for enterprise cloud integration

Box is currently storing more than 2 billion PDFs in the cloud, but before today, Adobe users needed to jump… Read More

Image: Internet of Things jet engine

Microsoft extends the ‘Internet of Things’ to jet engines, refrigerators and more

Soon the “Internet of Things” will be keeping watch on jet engines, refrigerators and freezers, factory floors and more, thanks to… Read More

Microsoft brings ‘WordFlow’ keyboard to iOS, optimized for one-handed typing

Nearly 10 years into the smartphone revolution, typing on a touchscreen is still a subpar experience, but Microsoft is offering up a… Read More

Homegrown hardware: Microsoft Surface beats acquired phone business in revenue again

Microsoft’s latest quarterly results show a company in transition. Declines in the traditional Windows business continue to be partially offset by growth… Read More

Microsoft releases Windows Ink and Cortana upgrades to Windows 10 testers today

Windows Ink, the draw-on-anything feature coming to Windows 10, is now available to Windows 10 testers. The newly available feature… Read More

Microsoft and Google call a truce, agree to withdraw regulatory complaints against each other

Microsoft and Google have agreed to withdraw all regulatory complaints against each other, and take steps to short-circuit any disputes in… Read More

Shares of Google parent company Alphabet dip 6% after earnings miss

Alphabet missed analyst expectations for both earnings and profit in its quarterly earnings report posted today. Alphabet, first announced in August… Read More

Microsoft revenue tops $22B; profits miss estimates; Surface revenue up 56%; commercial cloud hits $10B annually

Editor’s Note: Revenue figure corrected since original post. Microsoft reported revenue of more than $22 billion for the March quarter,… Read More

Microsoft to stop production of Xbox 360 after more than 10 years

The Xbox 360 had a good run, but things are coming to an end for Microsoft’s popular video game console first sold… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares empowerment message with We Day students

Microsoft’s mission is to “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,” and Satya Nadella made sure… Read More

Top 25 highest-paying U.S. workplaces: Guess which tech companies made the new list

Technology and consulting companies dominate Glassdoor’s new annual ranking of the highest-paying workplaces in America. Twenty-four out of the 25 businesses… Read More

Microsoft Kinect powers KEXP’s trippy new ‘Inside the Music’ experimental tech installation

KEXP will host a grand opening celebration this weekend for its new home at Seattle Center, which features everything you’d expect in a 21st… Read More

Interview: Why Microsoft is suing the U.S. Justice Department over cloud secrecy

Microsoft this morning filed suit against the U.S. Justice Department, seeking to overturn a provision of U.S. law that allows… Read More

Microsoft sues U.S. Justice Dept., asks court to declare secrecy orders unconstitutional

Microsoft is suing the U.S. Justice Department, asking a federal judge to declare unconstitutional a provision of U.S. law that lets the government… Read More

Microsoft’s new Azure Media Services tools find the most interesting parts of videos

There’s an amazing amount of video out there right now. Sure, there are the animal clips and viral videos that get hundreds or… Read More

Microsoft joins Amazon in claiming gender pay equity — but the numbers don’t tell the whole story

April 12 is Equal Pay Day, a date chosen because it represents the additional days a typical woman would have… Read More

Microsoft introduces ‘luxurious’ Surface Pro keyboard that looks better over time

What makes a keyboard premium? Maybe it is the key travel, a backlight or how clicky it is. For Microsoft, it is… Read More

How free Windows 10 upgrades and declining PC sales are taking a toll on Microsoft

Microsoft says Windows 10 is growing faster than any previous version, racking up 270 million active users within eight months of… Read More

The inside story of how rapper Common replaced Satya Nadella as the voice of Microsoft’s ads

Embed from Getty Images It was early October of 2014, and Microsoft was working hard to finish producing its first-ever… Read More

Microsoft tests ‘Centennial’ tool to port legacy Windows apps to Windows 10

Microsoft wants to beef up the library of Universal Windows Platform apps, but developers haven’t been so eager to put in… Read More

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