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Mar 19, 2025, 10:16 AM

Longtime Microsoft HR chief Kathleen Hogan shifts to corporate strategy role for CEO Satya Nadella

Microsoft named Kathleen Hogan, its longtime chief people officer, to the new role of executive vice president of strategy and… Read More

Mar 17, 2025, 2:27 PM

The surprising way Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella uses AI to consume podcasts on his commute

Satya Nadella is a fan of multimodal AI interfaces — the ability to interact with a chatbot not just through… Read More

Mar 13, 2025, 9:04 AM

Steve Ballmer on Microsoft’s first 50 years, its OpenAI deal, and why he’s still its biggest investor

Bill Gates and Paul Allen brought Microsoft into the world. Gates and Steve Ballmer saw the company through adolescence. Ballmer was in charge for high school and college. Satya Nadella is taking Microsoft into adulthood. That’s how Ballmer sees it these days. Read More

Mar 9, 2025, 1:12 PM

Microsoft and Amazon quantum advancements spark questions about the future of encryption

With recent announcements of new quantum computing advancements, Microsoft, Amazon and Google have set a new countdown clock ticking on… Read More

Mar 5, 2025, 10:20 AM

Microsoft@50: Brad Smith, Steve Ballmer, Nathan Myhrvold headline GeekWire’s March 20 event

GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event, marking the tech giant’s milestone anniversary, will feature on-stage conversations with Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad… Read More

Mar 5, 2025, 5:08 AM

Microsoft unveils AI agents for sales, striking back at Salesforce

Microsoft announced two AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both… Read More

Mar 1, 2025, 8:33 AM

Hanging up on Skype; Google’s future in Seattle; Microsoft’s quest for a quantum leap

This week on the Geekwire Podcast: Google prepares to say goodbye to Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, we get ready to say… Read More

Feb 28, 2025, 6:00 AM

End of an era: Microsoft to shut down Skype, shifting users to Teams, 14 years after $8.5B deal

Before Zoom, before FaceTime, and before video-calling became a default feature of today’s messaging apps — there was Skype. Microsoft paid… Read More

Feb 27, 2025, 9:52 AM

Microsoft asks Trump to loosen chip export limits to avoid giving China an AI advantage

Microsoft urged the Trump administration to change Biden-era limits on chip exports, warning that provisions of the regulations could give… Read More

Feb 26, 2025, 9:01 AM

Grab tickets now for Microsoft@50, a GeekWire event in Seattle marking milestone anniversary

The impact of Microsoft over the past 50 years will be the focus of a special GeekWire event in Seattle… Read More

Feb 25, 2025, 7:05 AM

Microsoft invests in Veeam, deepens cloud and AI partnership with data protection company

Microsoft made an equity investment in Veeam, deepening its partnership with the Kirkland, Wash.-based data protection and ransomware recovery company,… Read More

Feb 22, 2025, 8:18 AM

Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough; WA state targets Uber, Lyft; GeekWire 200; Bezos and Bond

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough; a Washington state bill that targets Uber and Lyft… Read More

Feb 20, 2025, 9:47 AM

Amazon to retire Chime meeting service, shift to Zoom internally as it rolls out Microsoft 365 apps

There will be no more apologies about Chime from Amazon employees to outsiders joining their meetings. That ritual of logging… Read More

Feb 19, 2025, 8:00 AM

Microsoft reveals new gaming-focused generative AI model ‘Muse’ that could revive classic games

In a new blog post on Wednesday, Microsoft’s research department debuted a new generative AI model called Muse that it… Read More

Feb 19, 2025, 8:00 AM

Microsoft quantum breakthrough promises to usher in the next era of computing in ‘years, not decades’

Microsoft says it has developed a new quantum processor based on a novel state of matter, giving it a clear… Read More

Feb 18, 2025, 8:43 AM

How Xbox lost its fans, and won them back — and more from a new book about Microsoft innovation

A new book, The Insider’s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft, finds universal business lessons in the company’s successes and also its failures, through case studies about different products and teams in various scenarios and stages of evolution. Read More

Feb 12, 2025, 7:30 AM

Bill Gates on Microsoft at 50, and what’s next for AI and innovation

Bill Gates talks about Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, parallels between AI and the early days of the PC, and where he sees the next big opportunities for innovation. Read More

Feb 11, 2025, 10:48 AM

How to avoid a $97 billion distraction: What Elon Musk’s bid for OpenAI means for Microsoft

Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion bid for the nonprofit that controls OpenAI could have significant implications for Microsoft, as the ChatGPT… Read More

Feb 10, 2025, 6:00 AM

Tech Moves: Google Cloud hires Microsoft exec Hayete Gallot in new president role; Impinj CRO retires; WSU names president

— Google named Hayete Gallot, most recently Microsoft’s corporate vice president of commercial solutions, to the newly created position of… Read More

Feb 6, 2025, 9:28 AM

Microsoft alums were surprised by the sheer scale of its success, new oral history project shows

Even with Microsoft’s hard-driving culture, and its vision for a computer on every desk and in every home (running Microsoft software), the magnitude of its success took many of the company’s early employees by surprise, a new oral history project shows. Read More

Feb 4, 2025, 8:09 AM

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Longtime Microsoft HR chief Kathleen Hogan shifts to corporate strategy role for CEO Satya Nadella

The surprising way Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella uses AI to consume podcasts on his commute

Steve Ballmer on Microsoft’s first 50 years, its OpenAI deal, and why he’s still its biggest investor

Microsoft and Amazon quantum advancements spark questions about the future of encryption

Microsoft@50: Brad Smith, Steve Ballmer, Nathan Myhrvold headline GeekWire’s March 20 event

Microsoft unveils AI agents for sales, striking back at Salesforce

Hanging up on Skype; Google’s future in Seattle; Microsoft’s quest for a quantum leap

End of an era: Microsoft to shut down Skype, shifting users to Teams, 14 years after $8.5B deal

Microsoft asks Trump to loosen chip export limits to avoid giving China an AI advantage

Grab tickets now for Microsoft@50, a GeekWire event in Seattle marking milestone anniversary

Microsoft invests in Veeam, deepens cloud and AI partnership with data protection company

Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough; WA state targets Uber, Lyft; GeekWire 200; Bezos and Bond

Amazon to retire Chime meeting service, shift to Zoom internally as it rolls out Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft reveals new gaming-focused generative AI model ‘Muse’ that could revive classic games

Microsoft quantum breakthrough promises to usher in the next era of computing in ‘years, not decades’

How Xbox lost its fans, and won them back — and more from a new book about Microsoft innovation

Bill Gates on Microsoft at 50, and what’s next for AI and innovation

How to avoid a $97 billion distraction: What Elon Musk’s bid for OpenAI means for Microsoft

Tech Moves: Google Cloud hires Microsoft exec Hayete Gallot in new president role; Impinj CRO retires; WSU names president

Microsoft alums were surprised by the sheer scale of its success, new oral history project shows

Interview: Bill Gates on his early years, key influences, and outlook on the world today

Bill Gates’ book ‘Source Code’ is a surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years

Podcast: DeepSeek reality check; Amazon, Bezos, and the Post; lost in the Microsoft garage

Microsoft’s new Surface Copilot+ PCs use Intel’s Lunar Lake chips in push for business adoption

Microsoft’s AI revenue run rate reaches $13B annually as tech giant tops earnings expectations

DeepSeek defense: Microsoft earnings will offer new chance to detail AI capital spending plans

Microsoft + TikTok, 2025 edition: Trump comment stirs new speculation about possible deal

Microsoft CEO says AI use will ‘skyrocket’ with more efficiency amid craze over DeepSeek

‘I’m good for my $80 billion’: What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella really meant by his Stargate zinger

‘The Road Ahead’ at 30: What Bill Gates’ classic book about the future says about the world today