May 18, 2019, 7:49 AM Minecraft meets the real world, Amazon pays its employees to quit, and the scooter saga continues This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Four years after acquiring Minecraft, Microsoft this week unveiled its most ambitious effort yet… Read More
May 17, 2019, 6:01 AM Hands-on with Minecraft Earth, Microsoft’s augmented reality answer to Pokémon Go It won’t be long before the trees on your street are pixelated and little pigs and other animals are rampaging… Read More
May 17, 2019, 6:01 AM Look out, Pokémon Go: Microsoft unveils new Minecraft Earth augmented reality game Microsoft today unveiled a new augmented reality Minecraft game for smartphones that aims to advance the genre long associated with… Read More
May 16, 2019, 1:33 PM Microsoft and Sony vow to “explore” ways to collaborate on cloud gaming and AI in new partnership Microsoft and Sony are going exploring. The two longtime gaming console rivals announced Thursday that they have struck a multiyear… Read More
May 15, 2019, 1:47 PM Microsoft treads cautiously as it plans to deploy $500M affordable housing fund in Seattle region Microsoft made a big splash in January with the surprise announcement of a $500 million commitment to increase the supply… Read More
May 15, 2019, 11:14 AM Q&A: Microsoft President Brad Smith on ‘historic’ international partnership to curb online extremism Six weeks ago, Microsoft President Brad Smith sat down with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to discuss how to… Read More
May 15, 2019, 10:50 AM Does HoloLens 2 live up to the hype? Hands-on with Microsoft’s new mixed-reality headset When Microsoft first unveiled the next-generation HoloLens “mixed reality” headset in February, executives promised a more comfortable and immersive experience… Read More
May 15, 2019, 9:00 AM Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and other tech giants pledge to crack down on violent extremism in ‘Christchurch call to action’ A who’s who of U.S. tech and social media giants is joining forces with international leaders to fight the violent… Read More
May 14, 2019, 4:00 PM ‘Ghost Work’ explores the ups and mostly downs of the hidden gig economy Chances are the last time you ordered something, chatted with customer service, or looked something up online, you didn’t give… Read More
May 14, 2019, 8:32 AM Q&A: Melinda Gates opens up about tech industry, equality and 3 women who changed her life Melinda Gates once famously set a rule in her kitchen. Nobody leaves until mom does. It’s a story she tells… Read More
May 13, 2019, 12:06 PM Microsoft will spend $100M to open its first development center in Africa Microsoft will spend more than $100 million over the next five years to open its first development center in Africa… Read More
May 13, 2019, 10:32 AM Microsoft unveils decentralized identity protocol that works atop the Bitcoin blockchain Microsoft introduced a new open-source protocol Monday that is designed to hurdle performance issues when trying to use blockchain networks… Read More
May 12, 2019, 10:00 AM We tested the Bay Area’s knowledge of Seattle tech, with some predictable and surprising results The two most valuable companies in the world are tech corporations — do you know what they are? And do… Read More
May 11, 2019, 8:56 AM Which tech giant do you trust? How Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are doing privacy There’s a common theme running through the spring season of developer conferences and tech events: trust and privacy. With the… Read More
May 10, 2019, 1:30 PM GitHub adds Package Registry, which allows GitHub users to publish software packages alongside source code GitHub is expanding the scope of its code repository to include support for publishing software packages, the company annoucned Friday… Read More
May 7, 2019, 1:00 PM Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes service jointly managed by Microsoft and Red Hat, is now available Companies interested in using Kubernetes to help manage their containerized applications have a new option from Microsoft and Red Hat… Read More
May 7, 2019, 10:45 AM Microsoft may be all-in on cloud computing, but Azure reliability is lagging the competition In an increasingly competitive market for cloud computing, reliability matters, and Microsoft has some work to do. Data compiled by… Read More
May 6, 2019, 5:09 PM Microsoft Imagine Cup winner aims to transform blood glucose monitoring with eye testing app An 18-year-old college freshman and winner of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, the tech giants global student developer competition, has plans to… Read More
May 6, 2019, 4:22 PM This is the Apollo 11 HoloLens demo that Microsoft hoped to show at Build The opening demo at Microsoft’s Build conference was supposed to be a real showstopper, and ultimately it did stop the… Read More
May 6, 2019, 2:59 PM Together at last: Microsoft will ship a Linux kernel with Windows There are countless things about the state of technology in 2019 that would startle a visitor from 2009, but this… Read More
May 6, 2019, 2:12 PM Microsoft teams up with Starbucks on predictive drive-thru ordering and bean-to-cup blockchain Starbucks is quickly becoming as much a tech company as a coffee company, but that hasn’t stopped its leadership from… Read More
May 6, 2019, 1:20 PM Microsoft rolls out new performance-scaling features for Azure databases, including serverless Azure SQL Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying only for what they use while enjoying on-demand performance scaling… Read More
May 6, 2019, 10:54 AM Trust, privacy, and then what? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opens Build developer conference Over the decades, Microsoft’s developer conferences have provided the first glimpse of some of the company’s most important products, from… Read More
May 6, 2019, 10:37 AM Augmented reality Minecraft? Microsoft teases Pokémon Go-style adaptation of popular game A new augmented reality, mobile version of the popular Minecraft game looks to be on the way. Microsoft ended the… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft’s Internet Explorer returns as a ‘mode’ inside Edge browser Internet Explorer is making a comeback, more than three years after Microsoft retired the legacy browser. Microsoft is adding a… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy Much has been made of Microsoft’s reinvention as an open-source company, and it will continue to live up to that… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft fell behind in the digital assistant race, and now it is trying to change the conversation Microsoft is embarking on what it calls the “next generation of intelligent assistant technologies” today, looking to move forward to… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft and Red Hat unveil open-source project that automatically scales Kubernetes clusters in response to events Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles… Read More
May 6, 2019, 8:30 AM Microsoft unveils new election security tools in continued battle against hackers As the 2020 U.S. Presidential election approaches, Microsoft is getting ready to release several new tools to shore up security… Read More
