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Microsoft

May 25, 2011, 11:15 AM

Microsoft’s MSN releases ‘Onit’ app for iPhone, iPad

Microsoft this morning continued its steady pace of app development for Apple’s iOS, as the company’s MSN unit released a… Read More

May 25, 2011, 10:58 AM

Who will Microsoft buy next: LinkedIn, Citrix, BlueKai or the maker of Angry Birds?

Microsoft made a big bet earlier this month when it gobbled up Skype for $8.5 billion, a move that got… Read More

May 25, 2011, 8:30 AM

BlueStacks brings Android apps to Windows, raises cash from ex-Microsofties

Have you ever wanted to take your favorite Android games, news or travel apps to your Windows PC? A new… Read More

May 24, 2011, 6:10 PM

Now leaving: The guy who led Microsoft’s iPad rival … years before the iPad existed

Long before Apple introduced the iPad, Otto Berkes and his team at Microsoft were working on devices called UltraMobile PCs… Read More

May 24, 2011, 12:38 PM

Microsoft vet Dave Chase sets out to fix the ‘broken’ health care system with Avado

There’s perhaps no industry as screwed up in America as health care. And Dave Chase, who helped create the healthcare… Read More

May 24, 2011, 11:30 AM

Why Microsoft is still fighting a $1.3 billion European fine from last decade

It was like a blast from the past this morning to wake up to news that Microsoft was back in… Read More

May 24, 2011, 9:01 AM

Windows Phone ‘Mango’: The phone is the app — but can it improve Microsoft’s chances?

Since the beginning, Microsoft’s strategy with Windows Phone has been to create a unified experience across the device — drawing… Read More

May 23, 2011, 4:05 PM

Video: ‘Halo’ Spartan blows up mini-fridge to pitch Windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5OdiXIV1M Microsoft’s Windows team seems to have figured out a thing or two about marketing to college students. Not only… Read More

May 23, 2011, 2:58 PM

Microsoft loosening the lid on Windows 8?

[Updated below with Microsoft’s statement on Ballmer’s comments] Two separate developments today suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to… Read More

May 23, 2011, 1:49 PM

Startup iTegris, hatched by two Microsoft vets, raises $4.6M

Stealth software startup iTegris, founded by former Microsoft VP Kurt Kolb and former Microsoft GM Tom Phillips, has raised more… Read More

May 23, 2011, 12:12 PM

Microsoft vets (and brothers) sell startup OffiSync to Jive

Business collaboration company Jive Software of Palo Alto is buying OffiSync, a Seattle-based startup known for a plug-in that adds… Read More

May 23, 2011, 7:10 AM

500 new Windows Phone features — will Kinect integration be one?

Microsoft will take the wraps off the next version of Windows Phone, code-named “Mango,” during a special event in New… Read More

May 22, 2011, 10:41 AM

IBM is now bigger than Microsoft (at least in market value)

Microsoft rose to prominence in the early 1980s, largely based on a deal to brings its operating system to IBM… Read More

May 22, 2011, 10:24 AM

Comments of the week: Ballmer at USC, Gates on the BBC, etc.

Microsoft’s top brass took some heat in the GeekWire comment threads this past week, with readers complaining about everything from… Read More

May 21, 2011, 9:59 AM

New Stanford Law building is amazing, and it comes courtesy of an ex-Microsoftie

Stanford University has minted plenty of Silicon Valley high-tech millionaires and billionaires over the years. But Microsoft money helped pay… Read More

May 20, 2011, 4:53 PM

Sign of the apocalypse: Skype, LinkedIn and other changes in the ‘geosocial universe’

There have been some shifts in the “geosocial universe” in recent days, with LinkedIn going public and Microsoft gobbling up… Read More

May 20, 2011, 11:50 AM

Data: Windows Phone trails pack in Q1, waiting for a Nokia bump

More than 3.6 million smartphones running Microsoft’s operating system were sold to end users worldwide in the first quarter, according… Read More

May 20, 2011, 10:57 AM

Latest on ‘App Store’ battle: Will the reality distortion field extend to the courts?

The nuances of trademark law, or any law for that matter, can sometimes lead to statements that seem strange to… Read More

May 20, 2011, 2:56 AM

How to woo students to Windows PCs: Give them a free Xbox 360?

This will either be considered a stroke of marketing genius, or a blight on the educational system as we know… Read More

May 20, 2011, 12:14 AM

Darryl struggles with resumé on The Office, requests Clippy

Most computer users hated Clippy, the annoying paperclip-shaped virtual assistant from Microsoft Office. Darryl Philbin wasn’t one of them. On… Read More

May 19, 2011, 5:20 PM

Pioneer Studios closure: So long to some of Microsoft’s sweetest digs ever

Good scoop from Jay Greene of CNet News.com this afternoon, reporting that Microsoft has shuttered Pioneer Studios, a group in Pioneer… Read More

May 19, 2011, 9:00 AM

Facebook to use Microsoft’s PhotoDNA technology to combat child pornography

Facebook will be the first company outside of Microsoft to roll out the Redmond company’s PhotoDNA technology — a move… Read More

May 19, 2011, 8:20 AM

Here it is: Verizon’s first Windows Phone, HTC Trophy

Microsoft and Verizon Wireless this morning confirmed plans to release the first Windows Phone for Verizon, the HTC Trophy, online… Read More

May 18, 2011, 10:44 PM

Microsoft CEO Summit: Corporate titans huddle in Redmond, quietly

The top executives of Wal-Mart, Xerox, Procter & Gamble, Geico, Berkshire Hathaway, Costco, JP Morgan Chase, Ford and more than… Read More

May 18, 2011, 2:16 PM

San Francisco picks Microsoft for big cloud email contract

San Francisco has picked Microsoft’s Exchange Online email service for more than 23,000 employees across the city and county, the… Read More

May 18, 2011, 1:10 PM

Excerpt: BBC host grills Bill Gates on Microsoft’s prospects

Well, on a program called “Hard Talk,” it only makes sense that host Stephen Sackur didn’t accept Bill Gates’ standard… Read More

May 17, 2011, 4:18 PM

Bill Gates a ‘strong proponent’ of Microsoft’s Skype deal

There was no boardroom brawl in Redmond over Microsoft’s proposed $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, at least not between Bill… Read More

May 17, 2011, 3:28 PM

Q&A: ‘Final Jeopardy’ author Stephen Baker on Watson, IBM, the future of e-books and the fate of humanity

Stephen Baker is the journalist and author who traced IBM’s Watson project from its inception and development all the way… Read More

May 17, 2011, 12:56 PM

What do you think of the Smithsonian’s new Bill & Melinda Gates portrait?

The National Portait Gallery in Washington D.C. features some of the country’s most influential Americans, from Abraham Lincoln to Martin… Read More

May 17, 2011, 9:39 AM

Microsoft customer satisfaction hits new high as Windows 7 takes hold

Have we finally witnessed the death of the Blue Screen of Death? OK, so that’s still a bit of a reach,… Read More

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