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Aug 8, 2011, 9:33 AM

Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry

Microsoft veteran Charlie Kindel, who led the effort to get independent app developers on board with Windows Phone, is leaving… Read More

Aug 8, 2011, 12:32 AM

Microsoft figures out how to make a nearly perfect 3D model of the human face

You know you’re on to something in computer graphics when you get to explain in your research paper how you’ve advanced… Read More

Aug 6, 2011, 10:51 AM

GeekWire Radio: Sex, phones, Internet Explorer and Bitcoin

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we assess a new study that demonstrates just how devoted (or… Read More

Aug 5, 2011, 12:55 PM

Blind Microsoft engineer setting triathlon records

At the Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas competition three months ago, Microsoft software engineer Patricia Walsh put in an impressive time of 11… Read More

Aug 4, 2011, 4:14 PM

Bing brings mall maps to mobile: No more getting lost in the market (or J Crew)

A new mobile browsing option from Bing is going to make it a bit easier to find your way to… Read More

Aug 4, 2011, 2:06 PM

Google responds to Microsoft’s ‘gotcha’, and Microsoft fires back

Feel free to skip the soaps today — this little saga should be more than enough for your daily allotment… Read More

Aug 4, 2011, 11:31 AM

This is the guy who convinced everyone that IE users are dumb

His name is Tarandeep Gill. He’s a web developer and entrepreneur, a graduate of the Georgia Tech computer science program,… Read More

Aug 4, 2011, 10:04 AM

New Bungie film goes behind the games (Watch it with us)

Bungie, the Seattle-area game studio best known for the blockbuster Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, just released a nearly hour-long… Read More

Aug 4, 2011, 9:25 AM

Obama to pick ex-Microsoft executive as new CIO

Steven VanRoekel, a former Microsoft executive, is expected to be chosen by President Barack Obama as the country’s next chief… Read More

Aug 3, 2011, 5:41 PM

Microsoft: Google declined invite to bid together on Novell patents

The war of words is escalating quickly between Microsoft and Google over patents and Android. Microsoft’s general counsel responded this… Read More

Aug 3, 2011, 3:46 PM

Digitizing the night sky … inside the UW’s planetarium

It’s a quiet, sunny summer afternoon at the University of Washington’s physics-astronomy complex. But inside the hushed, empty auditorium building,… Read More

Aug 3, 2011, 1:29 PM

Google: Microsoft, Apple trying to strangle Android with ‘bogus’ patents

[Follow-up: Microsoft says Google declined an invitation to bid together on Novell patents.] Google is fighting back publicly against what… Read More

Aug 3, 2011, 11:59 AM

Chart: Here’s how Bill Gates is giving away his billions

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pledged to give away the vast majority of his money. But how is the billionaire… Read More

Aug 3, 2011, 10:42 AM

Microsoft’s ‘BlueHat Prize’: $250k to focus hackers on security defense

Microsoft today announced a new program called the “BlueHat Prize,” offering a total of more than $250,000 in cash and… Read More

Aug 3, 2011, 9:09 AM

Good news, IE users: Media flunked IQ test, not you

[Update, 10:50 a.m.: The people behind “AptiQuant” now admit the study was a hoax, saying it “was all meant to be… Read More

Aug 2, 2011, 2:27 PM

UW computer science project automates time-lapse pictures

Inspired in part by people who take pictures of themselves every day, showing how they change over a period of… Read More

Aug 2, 2011, 10:30 AM

Verizon’s first 4G LTE netbook is a Windows 7 machine, sorta

Verizon Wireless this week is releasing its first netbook computer running on its 4G LTE network, and it represents a… Read More

Aug 2, 2011, 10:17 AM

Morning Radar: Windows Phone’s new logo, TechStars as reality TV, and more

Microsoft’s Windows Phone appears to be getting a new logo — shifting from a round icon to a square one that more… Read More

Aug 2, 2011, 9:28 AM

Skype on the iPad: Another (future) iOS app for Microsoft

OK, so Microsoft hasn’t actually completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype yet, but the long-awaited release of a native… Read More

Aug 2, 2011, 8:10 AM

How to navigate a Boeing 737 using Microsoft Kinect

Boeing is rolling out a new way to market its 737 airplane, using a bunch of the latest Microsoft technologies… Read More

Aug 1, 2011, 3:27 PM

Stats: Chrome, Safari gain on Internet Explorer and Firefox

Overall usage of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox fell slightly in July, while Google Chrome and Apple Safari both… Read More

Aug 1, 2011, 9:58 AM

Morning Radar: Steve Lacey memorial, George R.R. Martin at Bungie, 4G Windows Phone

Steve Lacey, the Google engineer and former Microsoftie who was the victim of a car crash July 24 in Kirkland,… Read More

Jul 31, 2011, 6:27 PM

If Microsoft Bing is Muhammad Ali, this is its best punch

An extensive look at Microsoft Bing’s attempt to challenge Google, published by the New York Times today, will get lots… Read More

Jul 31, 2011, 12:27 PM

The Internet Explorer IQ test: Come on, we’re not that dumb

A study released this past week by AptiQuant, a Vancouver, B.C., “psychometric consulting” company, found that Internet Explorer users, on average,… Read More

Jul 30, 2011, 7:05 AM

GeekWire Radio: Tech jobs, Bill Nye, Microsoft vs. Apple, and a GeekGirlCon preview

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about one Seattle woman’s creative attempt to land a… Read More

Jul 29, 2011, 2:45 PM

Patent verdict vs. Microsoft shrinks from $500M to $70M

It turned out to be another big week for patent news. A federal jury in San Diego today found that… Read More

Jul 29, 2011, 1:07 PM

Tributes to Steve Lacey, on Facebook and in Flight Sim

Family, friends and colleagues of Steve Lacey are still grappling with the loss of the respected Google engineer and Microsoft… Read More

Jul 29, 2011, 12:43 PM

ESPN split screen on Xbox: Sports overload, in a good way

Microsoft today confirmed plans to launch an updated version of the ESPN service on Xbox Live on Aug. 25. One… Read More

Jul 29, 2011, 12:56 AM

Bill’s Book Club: Twenty books Bill Gates has been reading

Look out, Oprah: A new Books section of Bill Gates’ website, The Gates Notes, offers a glimpse of some of… Read More

Jul 28, 2011, 2:14 PM

Video: Microsoft’s ‘Gmail Man’ jabs at Google’s email ads

https://youtu.be/OrkAuwaoFGg Microsoft isn’t saying whether this video is really one of its productions, but like ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley (who… Read More