Aug 23, 2013, 7:09 AM Full text: Microsoft CEO Ballmer’s email on his decision to step down Here’s the memo sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to employees this morning, announcing his plans to retire from the… Read More
Aug 23, 2013, 6:55 AM Microsoft’s Ballmer retiring in 12 months, stock surges on news, no successor named In a massive and surprising shift for Microsoft and its longtime leader, the company announced this morning that embattled CEO Steve… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 10:54 AM Microsoft Research chief, computer science vet Peter Lee joins GeekWire Summit lineup We’re three weeks away from our biggest event of the year, the GeekWire Summit, and we’ve still got a few… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 10:53 AM Big-screen gaming: You can play Xbox on the new Husky Stadium jumbotron The new Husky Stadium at the University of Washington is going to be pretty freaking awesome when it re-opens next… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 9:29 AM How your Microsoft Points will turn into real money today Thursday marks the end of an era — the Microsoft Points era, that is. Starting today, transactions on the Xbox… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 8:54 AM Here’s how to get a sneak peek at the Xbox One You can’t get your hands on the Xbox One until sometime in November, but Microsoft is giving gamers a sneak… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 8:19 AM Windows 8: Lenovo brings back Start menu, sidesteps Windows Store with Pokki Lenovo, which recently took the title of world’s largest PC maker, is going around Microsoft to restore something much closer… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 7:35 AM Former Windows chief Sinofsky joins Andreessen Horowitz Steven Sinofsky, who left his job as Microsoft’s Windows president last year, has joined prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz… Read More
Aug 22, 2013, 7:20 AM Delta equips 19,000 flight attendants with Windows Phones for in-flight use Delta Air Lines is giving a boost to Microsoft’s Windows Phone with a deal to equip its 19,000 flight attendants… Read More
Aug 21, 2013, 12:39 PM Barnes & Noble isn’t making a deal with Microsoft anytime soon Just a few months ago, rumors swirled about Microsoft offering to pay $1 billion for Barnes & Noble’s NOOK digital… Read More
Aug 21, 2013, 10:08 AM Microsoft hammers Google over ads in schools The Scrooglers have struck again. First it was Google Shopping, then came Gmail which was followed by Google Play. Now, Microsoft’s latest attack on… Read More
Aug 21, 2013, 9:12 AM What to do with all those Surface RTs? A giant piano! Microsoft last month dropped the price of the Surface RT tablet to clear the shelves, and it’s giving more and… Read More
Aug 21, 2013, 7:03 AM Microsoft awarding free Surface tablets with new ad-free ‘Bing for Schools’ initiative Use Bing, receive free Surface tablets. That’s the winning formula for the 800,000 students participating in Microsoft’s new “Bing for… Read More
Aug 20, 2013, 2:29 PM Nap on the bus without missing your stop, and more innovations from Microsoft’s summer interns Cornell University student Peter Zieske likes to doze off on bus rides, and he has created an app to help others… Read More
Aug 20, 2013, 12:41 PM Sony takes jab at Microsoft, touts consistency in maintaining ‘fair’ policies While Microsoft did a little flip-flopping with some of the Xbox One policies, Sony has remained steady with its rules for… Read More
Aug 20, 2013, 11:11 AM Amazon deal: Swap your Xbox 360 game to Xbox One for $10 Amazon is offering up a deal for those who want to upgrade their Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One.… Read More
Aug 20, 2013, 10:05 AM How the next ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ will leverage Microsoft’s Xbox One PopCap is already hitting it out of the park with the just-released Plants vs. Zombies 2 and the Seattle-based company… Read More
Aug 20, 2013, 8:45 AM Microsoft: You will fail your college classes using an iPad It’s late August, and that means back to school at thousands of college campuses around the world. Aimed at university… Read More
Aug 19, 2013, 1:57 PM Communication hub: Skype officially integrated with Outlook.com Outlook.com users who want to make Skype phone calls without opening up another app can now do so from their… Read More
Aug 19, 2013, 10:01 AM Windows Phone Diary: Grappling with Microsoft’s ‘other storage’ problem I was feeling good Saturday morning, with a full weekend ahead and the news that Microsoft had released “Halo: Spartan… Read More
Aug 19, 2013, 8:57 AM Microsoft brags that Xbox One has the ‘best games,’ but so do the other consoles Microsoft is getting the week started with a new Xbox One promo trailer out today and the video’s title is… Read More
Aug 19, 2013, 8:47 AM RIP, Microsoft Tag: Barcode service will end in 2015 Microsoft’s Tag barcode service will shut down in two years, according to a notice issued by the company this morning.… Read More
Aug 16, 2013, 2:33 PM Microsoft: Zune holdouts will still get 10 free monthly songs Good news for all of you remaining Zune users — all three of you. Microsoft is making a series of… Read More
Aug 15, 2013, 1:11 PM Microsoft: Google’s objections to YouTube on Windows Phone ‘nothing more than excuses’ Microsoft just released an extensive response to Google’s decision to block a newly developed YouTube app for Windows Phone —… Read More
Aug 15, 2013, 11:32 AM Google blocks Microsoft’s new YouTube app for Windows Phone — the one that was supposedly OK [Follow-up: Microsoft: Google’s objections to YouTube app on Windows Phone are ‘nothing more than excuses’] Two days after we reported that… Read More
Aug 15, 2013, 10:50 AM Microsoft: Skype to come bundled with Windows 8.1 When you install Windows 8.1, you’ll now have the opportunity to video call your friends and let them know that… Read More
Aug 15, 2013, 8:09 AM Any surface a touch screen: Ubi Interactive launches Kinect app for Windows 8 Hook up a Kinect sensor to Windows 8, project the screen onto a wall or any other surface, and interact… Read More
Aug 14, 2013, 4:49 PM Chart: Tablets settle in at 60% of PC market … for now The chart above feels like the calm before the storm, that storm being the holiday shopping season. For a while… Read More
Aug 14, 2013, 2:58 PM Does Seattle have an obligation to support Windows Phone? It’s common these days for mobile app developers to start with iPhone and Android, and get to Windows Phone later… Read More
Aug 14, 2013, 11:44 AM Xbox One launch delayed to 2014 in 8 European markets At E3 this year, Microsoft announced that the Xbox One would be available in 21 markets worldwide starting in November.… Read More
