Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 13 of 234

Jun 4, 2024, 7:00 AM

Bill Gates announces new book, ‘Source Code,’ a memoir about his early years, coming in 2025

Not just books but entire bookshelves have been devoted to the life and career of Bill Gates at this point,… Read More

Jun 3, 2024, 4:03 PM

Microsoft cuts jobs in Azure, HoloLens, and other units in latest move to control costs

Microsoft is cutting a total of around 1,000 jobs across the company, in areas including its Azure cloud unit and… Read More

May 25, 2024, 8:35 AM

Microsoft Copilot+ PCs: Is this the AI computer revolution we’ve been looking for?

Microsoft and major PC makers this week announced a plan to incorporate artificial intelligence directly into personal computers, adding on-board… Read More

May 21, 2024, 12:51 PM

OpenAI’s Sam Altman appears at Microsoft Build amid dustup over voice technologies

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman played the role of closing act for the opening keynote at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in… Read More

May 21, 2024, 8:30 AM

Microsoft will make Khan Academy’s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in cloud shift

Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced… Read More

May 21, 2024, 8:30 AM

Microsoft’s new ‘Team Copilot’ AI assistant runs meetings, manages projects, assigns tasks

Microsoft will test the limits of artificial intelligence in group collaboration with a new AI assistant that keeps meetings on… Read More

May 15, 2024, 9:00 AM

Microsoft’s carbon footprint keeps growing as AI drives data center expansions

In 2020, Microsoft made an ambitious commitment to make its operations carbon negative within a decade, removing more carbon from… Read More

May 13, 2024, 3:49 PM

Longtime CEO to leave Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company

Bill Hilf, the veteran tech executive and longtime CEO of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company, formerly known as… Read More

May 9, 2024, 6:45 AM

Shift AI Podcast: How AI is evolving in 2024, with Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Pablo Castro

As a distinguished engineer working on the Microsoft Azure AI Search team, Pablo Castro has insight into the inner workings… Read More

May 8, 2024, 10:43 AM

Microsoft to invest $3.3B in Wisconsin AI data center as Biden hits at Trump over jobs creation

Microsoft plans to invest $3.3 billion in an artificial intelligence-related initiative in Wisconsin, giving a boost to President Joe Biden’s… Read More

May 8, 2024, 5:00 AM

Microsoft study: 75% of knowledge workers using AI at work, nearly doubling in six months

Microsoft released a new version of a study that has documented the transformation of work over the past few years,… Read More

May 4, 2024, 7:41 AM

Amazon vs. Trader Joe’s; Bill Gates still a force at Microsoft; Inside the Binance founder’s sentencing

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s, and the related tactics revealed… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Build 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)

May 3, 2024, 9:44 AM

Internal memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers a new mandate on security

This is the text of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s internal memo sent to employees Friday, May 3, about the company’s… Read More

May 3, 2024, 7:55 AM

Microsoft will base part of senior exec comp on security, add deputy CISOs to product groups

Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major… Read More

Apr 30, 2024, 7:00 AM

Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and… Read More

Apr 25, 2024, 5:22 PM

Haunted by breaches, Microsoft is ‘putting security above all else,’ vows CEO Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella has made a habit of touting the revenue growth in the company’s security technology business on Microsoft’s earnings… Read More

Apr 25, 2024, 1:14 PM

Microsoft beats expectations as quarterly profits rise 20% to nearly $22B

Updated with details from Microsoft’s earnings conference call. Microsoft posted a 17% increase in revenue, to $61.9 billion, with $21.9… Read More

Apr 24, 2024, 1:52 PM

In mind-bending chat with deepfake digital twin, Reid Hoffman discusses Microsoft’s big AI hire

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman — the entrepreneur, author, podcaster, venture capitalist and Microsoft board member — is on the front lines of… Read More

Apr 22, 2024, 3:59 PM

Microsoft and partners open major new pedestrian bridge to span campus and transportation needs

People on foot, riding bicycles, and even those cruising on electric skateboards crisscrossed over a busy highway between Microsoft’s old… Read More

Apr 15, 2024, 10:31 PM

Microsoft invests $1.5B in G42, the Emirati AI holding company based in Abu Dhabi

Microsoft is making another big AI-related investment, this time pouring $1.5 billion into G42, a AI holding company based in… Read More

Apr 6, 2024, 8:41 AM

Can AI save the world? New book from Microsoft aims to show the potential for positive change

A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater… Read More

Apr 2, 2024, 5:50 PM

Cyber Safety Review Board finds Microsoft security culture ‘inadequate,’ calls for accountability

Microsoft comes under intense scrutiny and pointed criticism in a 34-page report released Tuesday by the Cyber Safety Review Board… Read More

Apr 1, 2024, 5:03 PM

Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally in new attempt to appease antitrust regulators

Microsoft says it will offer its Teams and Office 365 separately for business customers globally, unbundling the two programs and… Read More

Mar 30, 2024, 8:05 AM

GeekWire Podcast: Inside a Tesla Cybertruck; how police dogs find devices; Ballmer’s comedian son

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Reporter Kurt Schlosser takes us inside a Tesla Cybertruck, explains what it was like… Read More

Mar 29, 2024, 6:00 AM

Data protection giant Veeam moves HQ to Seattle region, tops $1.5B in annual recurring revenue

KIRKLAND, Wash. — Credit the cloud, and the talent. The cricket is just a bonus. Veeam Software, the top company… Read More

Mar 21, 2024, 9:01 AM

Microsoft announces new Surface PCs for businesses, with AI integration

Microsoft unveiled what it described as its first AI-powered Surface PCs for businesses, the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop… Read More

Mar 21, 2024, 8:00 AM

Analysis: Microsoft’s big hires foreshadow bold new move into consumer AI

Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis post written by S. “Soma” Somasegar, managing director at Madrona Venture Group and… Read More

Mar 19, 2024, 10:00 AM

Microsoft names DeepMind co-founder and former Google exec as its new CEO of AI

Microsoft added some big names to its AI leadership Tuesday with the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind… Read More

Mar 18, 2024, 8:08 AM

LinkedIn explores adding puzzle-based games to its feed

LinkedIn wants to add a little more fun to its feed. Posts on social media and a report from TechCrunch… Read More

Mar 2, 2024, 7:48 AM

How Microsoft, T-Mobile, and Amazon use big bets to build durable businesses in turbulent times

At the outset of their new book, “Big Bet Leadership,” authors John Rossman and Kevin McCaffrey identify three “mega forces”… Read More