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Microsoft at 40: How the company has changed, and stayed the same

Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1975, two friends from Seattle formed a partnership called “Micro-soft.” In an email to Microsoft employees… Read More

Microsoft’s new Surface 3 tablet runs an Intel chip and full Windows

Microsoft just unveiled the latest version of its baseline Surface tablet, the Surface 3 — switching to an Intel Atom processor, and… Read More

Microsoft teams up with EdX to offer development courses for its platform

Microsoft partnered with online learning site EdX to offer people a new jumping-off point into the worlds of software development… Read More

Microsoft Garage rolls up its doors to reveal new Android, Windows Phone apps

Open the Garage bay doors, Redmond. For the second time since October, Microsoft has rolled out a fleet of cross-platform apps… Read More

Microsoft’s Cortana changes Super Bowl statement to appease Seahawks fans

Cortana isn’t changing her prediction for the Super Bowl this weekend. She still gives the edge to the Patriots, based… Read More

Catching up with Brian Valentine, former Windows and Amazon engineering chief

Brian Valentine was a legendary figure inside Microsoft, as the executive leading the engineering teams for the Windows 2000 and Windows XP… Read More

Microsoft reports $26.5B in revenue, up 8%, but IRS audit and restructuring cut into profits

Microsoft just reported revenue of $26.5 billion for the December quarter, up 8 percent, beating Wall Street’s expectations on the… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter and tech vet Brian Valentine on their new venture

Is there a better way to start and grow startups, and keep the founding team together for the long haul? Our… Read More

Microsoft touts ‘Windows as a service,’ free Windows 10 upgrades for the first year

When Windows 10 launches later this year, people who own devices running Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows… Read More

New ‘Illuminating Piano’ works with iPad or Windows to light the way for aspiring pianists

Wait, which piano key is that note again? That’s the eternal question for people learning to play piano, and a… Read More

Microsoft patches security flaw disclosed by Google

Microsoft has patched the security flaw that Google disclosed this weekend as a part of its regular Patch Tuesday security… Read More

Big changes ahead for Windows: ‘We’ve got to monetize it differently,’ says Microsoft exec

Microsoft Windows has made headway in the market for low-end laptops and tablets this year by reducing the price it charges device… Read More

What about Windows? And where was Bill Gates? Notes from Microsoft’s shareholders meeting

Steve Ballmer was in the audience, not on stage. Bill Gates wasn’t even there. A former Microsoft industry rival, John Thompson,… Read More

Microsoft report card: Grading Satya Nadella’s first year as CEO, so far

Microsoft investors will gather Wednesday morning for a yearly tradition, the company’s annual shareholders meeting at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Wash.… Read More

No Windows, no problem: Amazon’s AppStream streams almost any Windows app from the cloud

Want to run a Windows app on an iPhone? That’s no problem, thanks to a new update to Amazon’s AppStream… Read More

HP’s new Sprout desktop PC slices, dices and takes 3D scans

Picture, if you will, an all-in-one desktop, with a 23-inch monitor. It looks a bit like an iMac. Now, add a… Read More

Microsoft VP: Bing eyes Windows as ‘next treasure trove’ for data analysis

REDMOND, Wash. — Speaking this morning at a “Bing Ads Next” event, Microsoft VP Rik van der Kooi talked about the… Read More

Surprise: Xbox One Kinect will work on Windows 8 with this new $49 adapter from Microsoft

A new $49 adapter, announced by Microsoft this morning, will allow an Xbox One Kinect to plug into Windows 8 and 8.1… Read More

Microsoft updates Windows 10 preview with notification center, faster upgrade track

Microsoft released the first major update to the Windows 10 technical preview today, which adds a bunch of new features and… Read More

Microsoft to gather enterprise professionals around a campfire at new Ignite conference

When Microsoft announced that it wouldn’t be holding a bunch of different smaller enterprise events earlier this year, it promised a… Read More

Here’s how to watch Apple’s iPad event on a Windows PC

Apple is widely expected to unveil new iPads, new Macs, as well as introduce its next major desktop operating system today at the… Read More

Microsoft fixes vulnerability used in ‘Sandworm Team’ attacks

What do NATO, the Ukraine and European telecom companies all have in common? They’ve all been targeted by a hacking… Read More

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Google, Apple, Microsoft: Propelled, and trapped, by their brands

Thought experiment: You have developed a groundbreaking computing device, a worthy hardware challenger to every laptop, tablet, phablet, and phone… Read More

Interview: Why Windows UX leader Jensen Harris is leaving Microsoft to co-found the startup Textio

What if recruiters could know, before posting a job listing, if the specific language in the job description will actually attract the types… Read More

Video: Watch Microsoft unveil Windows 10

People who weren’t in the room to see Microsoft announce Windows 10 today can now see the full presentation of… Read More

Video: Hands on with Windows 10, Microsoft’s new operating system

SAN FRANCISCO – Following today’s unveiling of Windows 10, GeekWire got a chance to go hands-on with Microsoft’s new operating… Read More

Live from Microsoft’s big Windows event in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft is slated to unveil its plans for Windows this morning, with a big focus on enterprise customers,… Read More

MSN’s rebirth brings Microsoft’s new approach into focus

It might be easy to dismiss Microsoft’s MSN as a relic of the dial-up Internet era, but with 425 million monthly users,… Read More

Ready for a new Windows? Microsoft’s fresh start begins this week

If you’re wary of Windows 8, Microsoft has a new pitch for you, starting this week. But what it will be called is still… Read More

Chromebooks aren’t just for kids anymore: How my mom made the switch from Windows

Like many GeekWire readers, I’m the de-facto IT support guy in our family. So when my mother’s laptop began to fail… Read More