This is the text of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s internal memo sent to employees Friday, May 3, about the company’s new security initiatives, expanding on Microsoft Security leader Charlie Bell’s… Read More
Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major security breaches, under growing pressure from government leaders and big… Read More
Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others to size up the industry’s bet on the cloud… Read More
Satya Nadella has made a habit of touting the revenue growth in the company’s security technology business on Microsoft’s earnings calls. But not this time. Microsoft’s CEO took a different… Read More
Updated with details from Microsoft’s earnings conference call. Microsoft posted a 17% increase in revenue, to $61.9 billion, with $21.9 billion in profits, up 20%, and earnings of $2.94 per… Read More
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman — the entrepreneur, author, podcaster, venture capitalist and Microsoft board member — is on the front lines of the artificial intelligence revolution. Even as a pioneer in the… Read More
People on foot, riding bicycles, and even those cruising on electric skateboards crisscrossed over a busy highway between Microsoft’s old and new campuses on Monday as a dramatic new pedestrian… Read More
Microsoft is making another big AI-related investment, this time pouring $1.5 billion into G42, a AI holding company based in the United Arab Emirates. The deal marks Microsoft’s latest strategic… Read More
A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater recordings of beluga whales. Upon learning about the project, another… Read More
Microsoft comes under intense scrutiny and pointed criticism in a 34-page report released Tuesday by the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), a group created by the U.S. Secretary of Homeland… Read More
Microsoft says it will offer its Teams and Office 365 separately for business customers globally, unbundling the two programs and expanding an approach that it introduced in the European Economic… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Reporter Kurt Schlosser takes us inside a Tesla Cybertruck, explains what it was like to drive one, and tells us how people reacted to… Read More
KIRKLAND, Wash. — Credit the cloud, and the talent. The cricket is just a bonus. Veeam Software, the top company by market share in data protection and ransomware recovery, has… Read More
Microsoft unveiled what it described as its first AI-powered Surface PCs for businesses, the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, with Intel Core Ultra processors and Neural Processing Units… Read More
Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis post written by S. “Soma” Somasegar, managing director at Madrona Venture Group and a former Microsoft executive. GeekWire occasionally runs opinion and analysis… Read More
Microsoft added some big names to its AI leadership Tuesday with the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind and a former Google vice president of artificial intelligence, to… Read More
LinkedIn wants to add a little more fun to its feed. Posts on social media and a report from TechCrunch over the weekend revealed the Microsoft-owned platform may add several… Read More
At the outset of their new book, “Big Bet Leadership,” authors John Rossman and Kevin McCaffrey identify three “mega forces” that they believe could define the years ahead for businesses… Read More
Microsoft outlined a series of principles for its development and deployment of artificial intelligence, including a pledge to partner with a “broad array” of companies and other players in the… Read More
Microsoft is expanding its AI and cloud infrastructure investments in Spain by $2.1 billion over the next two years, company President Brad Smith announced on Monday.
The console wars aren’t over, but they’ve mutated into a new phase. That’s my takeaway after Microsoft revealed a new chapter for its Xbox business, where it both competes with… Read More
State-affiliated online attackers are finding ChatGPT and other AI tools useful for improving their productivity, and streamlining and accelerating their work, but they have yet to unleash the technology’s full… Read More
Microsoft unveiled a Super Bowl ad for its Copilot artificial intelligence assistant — seizing a high-profile opportunity to gloss over AI’s pitfalls and risks by focusing on the technology’s potential… Read More
Microsoft announced five projects to help news organizations incorporate generative artificial intelligence into their operations, building on its existing efforts to use technology to support the role of journalism in… Read More
Rumors have been in circulation for weeks that Microsoft might publish some of its exclusive games on competing consoles. Now a new report indicates that one of the most anticipated… Read More
When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end… Read More
Despite their longstanding rivalry, Microsoft has made a tradition of developing software for Apple computers, stretching back to the early days of the Macintosh in the 1980s. Turns out the… Read More
Xbox is bigger than Windows. Revenue from Microsoft’s video-game business surpassed its Windows division for the first time in the December quarter, with a big boost from the company’s $69… Read More
Microsoft’s revenue from its Azure cloud platform and related services rose 30% in the quarter ended Dec. 31, including a 6 percentage point boost from its artificial intelligence technologies. The… Read More
This post has been updated with Microsoft and OpenAI comments, and additional context from Microsoft engineer Shane Jones in response to their statements. A Microsoft AI engineering leader says he… Read More