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Microsoft

An Ode to Code: ‘The Windows Thread that Wouldn’t Go to Bed’

There is plenty of drama in the process of software development, yet little theater or poetry about it. Poems are… Read More

Microsoft reorganizes cloud teams as Azure business keeps growing

Microsoft’s cloud offerings were a shining star in the company’s earnings report on Thursday, which beat expectations and sent the… Read More

Microsoft stock approaching all-time high after 10% surge on strong earnings report

Microsoft has been trending toward a record-high stock price for a while now, and it got a major push in that direction… Read More

Microsoft stops reporting Xbox console unit sales, shifting focus to Xbox Live active users

Microsoft is making a major change to the way it reports results for its Xbox business — ending its longstanding practice… Read More

With stock soaring, Microsoft quietly cuts 1,000 employees

Microsoft posted strong financial results on Thursday, sending shares of the company up 10 percent in trading today, part of… Read More

Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Amazon ‘not a great place to work’

According to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, people don’t really like working at Amazon. In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg… Read More

Huge growth: Amazon reaches 222,400 employees, hires 39,000 in last quarter alone

Amazon is hiring like crazy. The Seattle e-commerce giant added 39,300 employees during its most recent quarter, which is record… Read More

Microsoft beats estimates as surging cloud business counteracts slump in PCs and phones

Microsoft beat revenue and profit expectations for its first fiscal quarter, as revenue from its Office 365 and Windows Azure… Read More

Report: Microsoft to delay Edge browser extensions until next year, first major Windows 10 update coming next month

The first major update to Microsoft’s new operating system is supposedly coming next month, but the highly anticipated Edge browser extensions… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the battle over the cloud: ‘It’s a Seattle race’

Tech giants everywhere are fighting for their slice of the cloud pie, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during an… Read More

Review: Microsoft’s vastly superior Xbox Elite Controller might just be worth the crazy price

The new Xbox Elite Controller is over-engineered, extra-complicated and, at $150, three times the price of a regular Xbox One controller. And… Read More

Surface Book reviews: Microsoft made a great laptop, but detachable screen may be overkill

The first reviews are out for Microsoft’s first laptop — and it looks like the Surface Book may be a… Read More

Michael Dell tells Satya Nadella what he thinks about Microsoft’s hardware strategy

Dell CEO Michael Dell is comfortable with Microsoft’s new role as both a partner for his company and a competitor in the… Read More

Key Windows exec Joe Belfiore taking a hiatus to spend six months at sea

Microsoft vice president Joe Belfiore took to Facebook on Tuesday night to announce an extended leave from the company where he has… Read More

Microsoft leading the charge for new international laws after U.S. spying derails longstanding trust

Microsoft outlined a detailed plan for new international laws governing the transfer of data between the U.S. and Europe on… Read More

Geek of the Week: Yarelly Gomez refuses to be another statistic about minorities in tech

The odds have always been stacked again University of Washington engineering student Yarelly Gomez. Her parents are both farm workers in… Read More

Yahoo reaches search deal with Google after loosening Microsoft ties

Updated below with Microsoft statement. Yahoo just announced a search deal with Google, taking advantage an earlier revision of its longtime… Read More

The New New Microsoft: Revamped divisions debut with earnings this week

Apps, The Cloud, and Windows/Devices. Microsoft uses fancier terms, but that’s the simple way of looking at the company’s new financial reporting… Read More

Microsoft says Surface Pro 4 is seeing record adoption among businesses

Looks like business is booming for the new Surface tablets. Microsoft announced today that the new Surface Pro 4 has… Read More

Sony PS4 tops Microsoft Xbox One in U.S. console sales for 5th straight month

Sony topped Microsoft again for U.S. current-generation hardware sales in September as its PlayStation 4 trumped the Xbox One for the… Read More

Microsoft nominates two new female board members as Maria Klawe prepares to step down

Microsoft announced on Monday that board member Maria Klawe will step down from the position in December, ending her six-year tenure.… Read More

Lenovo brings Yoga to the desktop with new all-in-one Windows 10 machine

Lenovo’s Yoga laptops have helped to pioneer the field of multi-modal PCs, and now the company is bringing that functionality (and name)… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gets $18.3M in pay as board cites ‘strong, consistent vision’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was awarded nearly $18.3 million in total compensation for the company’s 2015 fiscal year, consisting of… Read More

Microsoft announces price of 1TB Surface Book — $500 more than the top 13-inch MacBook Pro

Microsoft has expanded its pre-order lineup of the Surface Book with a new 1TB option, but it’ll cost a pretty… Read More

Microsoft winning over NYC ahead of flagship store launch with ‘prize machines,’ free food and Pitbull

Microsoft is pulling out the big guns as it looks to win over New Yorkers and build some buzz before… Read More

Walmart plans to release OneOps cloud technology as open source, targeting AWS and Azure

Walmart announced this week that it’s open-sourcing its cloud platform, called OneOps, to let developers build in the cloud without being locked… Read More

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reveals he has a 4% stake in Twitter

Steve Ballmer now owns the same percentage of Twitter as he does of Microsoft. The former Microsoft CEO today confirmed… Read More

See-through snapshots: Microsoft and UW tech takes pictures that are more than skin deep

They may not be X-ray specs, but the University of Washington and Microsoft Research are working together to let you… Read More

New Skype feature lets you send a link to anyone to start a conversation

Whenever I need to connect with someone new over Skype, I can never remember my Skype username. Is it my… Read More

Microsoft Surface Book sold out on online store, 2 weeks before launch

You may have a hard time getting the Surface Book you want on launch day. All configurations of the Surface Book,… Read More

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