Feb 21, 2013, 3:37 PM Youngsters think Microsoft is getting cooler as it ages Looks like those hip new Microsoft commercials are paying off. A Reuters poll found that just under 50 percent of… Read More
Feb 21, 2013, 2:37 PM Patents: Microsoft wants higher standards, more transparency in U.S. system Microsoft today proposed a series of reforms for the U.S. patent system — asking the U.S. Patent Office to increase… Read More
Feb 20, 2013, 2:01 PM Microsoft employees raised $105M for 19K non-profits in 2012 For the second year in a row, Microsoft employees eclipsed the $100 million mark in charitable donations, raising $105 million… Read More
Feb 20, 2013, 11:07 AM Yammer tops 7M users, sales spike after Microsoft deal Yammer, the business-oriented social network acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion last year, says its sales to businesses quadrupled in… Read More
Feb 19, 2013, 5:57 PM Microsoft: 1.5 million new Outlook.com users so far Microsoft has added 1.5 million new Outlook.com users in less than 24 hours since formally launching the new email service… Read More
Feb 19, 2013, 9:24 AM Microsoft connecting Skype to Lync for business users One of the big questions when Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion was what would happen to Lync, the Redmond… Read More
Feb 19, 2013, 8:21 AM HTC ‘Blinkfeed’: New attempt at smartphone stream HTC this morning unveiled its new flagship smartphone, the HTC One, an LTE device with an aluminum unibody and a… Read More
Feb 18, 2013, 9:02 PM Outlook.com arrives: Microsoft gets aggressive in new bid to dethrone Gmail Microsoft is officially launching Outlook.com on Tuesday — taking its new consumer email service out of preview mode and starting… Read More
Feb 18, 2013, 2:56 PM The hotel room of the future runs Windows 8 on its touchscreen walls Imagine walking up in your hotel room with touchscreen walls around you. The one to the left shows that it’s… Read More
Feb 18, 2013, 1:33 PM Microsoft Surface Pro: More than a week later, it’s still a treasure hunt Heads up: A short time ago, the Microsoft Store at Seattle’s University Village received a new shipment of Microsoft Surface… Read More
Feb 18, 2013, 11:10 AM Bill Gates ‘not satisfied’ that Microsoft is doing enough Bill Gates, speaking on the set of CBS This Morning, was asked point-blank by Charlie Rose if he was happy… Read More
Feb 18, 2013, 9:03 AM New era for Bungie: First glimpse of Destiny, the next big thing from Halo’s creator It would be hard for Bungie to top the success that Halo brought to the Bellevue-based video game company, but… Read More
Feb 18, 2013, 8:02 AM Cisco: Microsoft’s ‘Windows first’ strategy out of touch with rise of Android, Apple On the eve of Microsoft’s first-ever Lync Conference, Cisco today launched a campaign questioning Microsoft’s strategy of making its communication… Read More
Feb 16, 2013, 9:34 PM Microsoft to exclusively stream LeBron James’ animated series “The LeBrons” The effects of Microsoft’s new Xbox Entertainment Studios seem to already be coming through. After announcing the company’s plans to… Read More
Feb 15, 2013, 3:35 PM Left out: Skype video message feature debuts for everything but Windows Skype today launched a new beta video message feature, letting users record videos as long as three minutes and send… Read More
Feb 15, 2013, 12:21 PM Geek of the Week: Splunk’s Brad Lovering on big data and ‘disruptive transitions’ Brad Lovering is a veteran of the tech industry in the Seattle region — having worked at Microsoft for more… Read More
Feb 15, 2013, 11:24 AM A little Lone Star love: Microsoft inks big deal with Texas for Office 365 Microsoft just scooped up a big deal for its Office 365 suite of cloud-based productivity products, inking a deal with… Read More
Feb 14, 2013, 5:21 PM Xbox 360 marks 25 straight months atop U.S. market Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was the top-selling console in January in the United States, marking its 25th straight month atop the… Read More
Feb 14, 2013, 10:30 AM A gamer’s dream: ‘The Art of Video Games’ exhibit debuts Friday at the EMP (PHOTOS) If you’ve ever wanted to jump in a time machine and relive the 40-year history of video games, well, Seattle’s… Read More
Feb 14, 2013, 10:13 AM Barnes & Noble expects deeper loss in Nook business Barnes & Noble, struggling to gain traction against Amazon’s Kindle, expects its Nook business to go deeper into the red.… Read More
Feb 14, 2013, 8:31 AM Office on iPad: Microsoft wrestling with $2.5B tradeoff Microsoft is forgoing as much as $2.5 billion a year in extra revenue by not yet putting a full-fledged version… Read More
Feb 13, 2013, 3:43 PM Search stats: Google and Bing keep climbing as Yahoo slips further behind Google climbed back to 67 percent percent of the U.S. search market in January, putting just a bit more distance… Read More
Feb 13, 2013, 9:40 AM Microsoft CFO on 7-inch tablets: ‘We’re set up for that’ With the release of Windows 8, Microsoft and its hardware partners have been focusing on larger tablets, with screen sizes… Read More
Feb 13, 2013, 9:10 AM Valve hires Xbox 360 controller veteran for hardware push It’s not uncommon for video game company Valve to hire Microsoft veterans. Co-founder Gabe Newell himself came from Microsoft. But… Read More
Feb 12, 2013, 4:23 PM Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says search deal with Microsoft needs a boost The Internet search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo appears to be stuck in neutral, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants… Read More
Feb 12, 2013, 10:26 AM Not just dudes: 38% of Xbox users female, 51% have kids Microsoft wants you to know that not all of its users are stereotypical hardcore gamer bros. Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice… Read More
Feb 12, 2013, 7:38 AM Amazon beats Apple, Disney, Google and everyone else for top corporate reputation Amazon says its mission is to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company,” and it looks like it’s working. The new king of corporate… Read More
Feb 11, 2013, 5:41 PM Microsoft’s new Xbox Entertainment Studios diving into original content Microsoft has already been taking steps to turn the Xbox 360 into more than just a video game console. Now,… Read More
Feb 11, 2013, 5:29 PM Microsoft: 24M Kinects sold, Xbox Live hits 46M members Microsoft this afternoon released a wave of stats related to the Xbox 360, including Xbox Live membership growth and the… Read More
Feb 11, 2013, 11:53 AM Reddit AMA: Bill Gates on internet freedom, Steve Jobs and the Surface Pro Answering questions about everything from his favorite book (The Better Angels of our Nature) to his favorite band (Weezer) to… Read More
