Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 53 of 234

Jan 24, 2019, 10:58 AM

Microsoft Office 365 debuts on Apple app store

Microsoft Office 365 has made its long-anticipated debut on Apple’s Mac App Store. As first announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers… Read More

Jan 24, 2019, 10:35 AM

Microsoft acquires Citus Data, creators of a cloud-friendly version of the PostgreSQL database

Databases continue to be one of the most competitive areas of cloud computing, and Microsoft strengthened its database story Thursday… Read More

Jan 23, 2019, 9:26 PM

Chinese government reportedly blocks Microsoft Bing in latest censorship of U.S. internet services

Update, Jan. 24: Bloomberg reported on Thursday that Bing was coming back online after an apparent outage. The Chinese government has… Read More

Jan 23, 2019, 9:10 AM

Fake news detector comes to Microsoft’s Edge mobile browser to call out questionable sources

Microsoft is looking to warn users about unreliable news sources with a new feature on its Edge browser on mobile… Read More

Jan 22, 2019, 2:22 PM

Microsoft’s Julie Brill backs Washington privacy bill: ‘I would urge you not to miss this opportunity’

While many big tech companies are reticent about the seemingly inevitable tide of privacy regulations headed our way, Microsoft has… Read More

Jan 22, 2019, 9:00 AM

Microsoft debuts new low-cost laptops and ‘Classroom Pen’ for schools

Microsoft is doubling down on the education market, a competitive arena for the world’s largest tech giants, with a series… Read More

Jan 19, 2019, 10:25 AM

Amazon and Microsoft diverge on approach to housing crisis in their home region

As two of the world’s most valuable companies, Amazon and Microsoft have created mind-boggling wealth and economic vitality in the… Read More

Jan 18, 2019, 1:09 PM

Microsoft to kill off Windows 10 Mobile, advises remaining loyalists to jump to iOS or Android

Microsoft will cut off the last remaining vestiges of its smartphone operating system, Windows 10 Mobile, later this year. Microsoft… Read More

Jan 18, 2019, 9:30 AM

Can Big Tech solve the housing crisis? The politics of private companies taking on public issues

Big tech companies are stepping in to help solve the housing crunch in the face of mounting frustration from their… Read More

Jan 18, 2019, 8:20 AM

Microsoft gives up on Cortana as an Alexa rival, now views assistant as cross-platform skill

Microsoft no longer views Cortana as a competitor to the Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa, and the priority has changed… Read More

Jan 17, 2019, 4:30 PM

Q&A: What Microsoft President Brad Smith hopes to accomplish with new $500M housing fund

Over the past decade, the Seattle area has been adding jobs much faster than housing, resulting in much more demand… Read More

Jan 17, 2019, 10:54 AM

Microsoft’s Brad Smith on $500M housing pledge: ‘We want our success to support the region’

Microsoft President Brad Smith formally announced the company’s unprecedented $500 million commitment to support affordable housing development in the Seattle… Read More

Jan 17, 2019, 10:42 AM

Seattle Sounders and Reign FC unveil new jersey sponsor, replace Microsoft with online retailer Zulily

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with details from the Sounders’ event announcing Zulily as its new jersey sponsor.… Read More

Jan 16, 2019, 6:41 PM

Microsoft commits $500M to address affordable housing and homelessness in the Seattle region

Microsoft is dedicating $500 million to fund construction of affordable homes and homeless services in the Seattle region in an effort… Read More

Jan 16, 2019, 9:44 AM

Microsoft venture capital arm M12 expands to India, invests in healthcare data startup

Microsoft’s venture capital arm M12 has made its first ever investment in a startup based in India. M12 made an… Read More

Jan 15, 2019, 3:20 PM

Microsoft wins $1.76 billion DoD deal as massive U.S. government cloud contract looms

Microsoft started off the year with two wins in the federal government sector, winning a $1.76 billion contract with the… Read More

Jan 15, 2019, 6:43 AM

Microsoft counters Amazon again with big Walgreens partnership, aiming to reshape healthcare

A week after unveiling a plan to reinvent grocery shopping with Kroger, Microsoft announced another major retail partnership: a seven-year… Read More

Jan 14, 2019, 2:47 PM

Beware, Windows 7 hold-outs: Microsoft starts one-year clock to end support for popular operating system

For the Windows 7 diehards out there — and there are a lot of them — Microsoft is only going… Read More

Jan 14, 2019, 12:00 PM

Glasses give sight to the legally blind, opening eyes to the broader potential of making tech accessible

LAS VEGAS ― More than 180,000 people attended CES to see the latest in consumer technology. From autonomous suitcases to a… Read More

Jan 13, 2019, 5:00 PM

Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market

Cloud computing was invented by American tech companies. By the end of the next decade, it might be the domain… Read More

Jan 12, 2019, 7:25 AM

Facebook, groceries and … divorce? Catch up on the week’s big stories with the GeekWire Podcast

We’re back! John Cook, Monica Nickelsburg and Todd Bishop get the GeekWire Podcast rolling for 2019 with our weekly news… Read More

Jan 11, 2019, 1:34 PM

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Supporting women in tech, and exploring the mysteries of the universe

Women in Cloud: If you’re like most women who work in the tech industry, you’ve probably experienced a hurdle or… Read More

Jan 11, 2019, 8:58 AM

Microsoft spotlights efforts to help retailers modernize and compete with Amazon

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft isn’t as visible as Google or Amazon at CES this year, choosing to mostly lay low… Read More

Jan 10, 2019, 12:11 PM

Investigation reveals that Microsoft Bing surfaces and recommends child pornography

Microsoft’s search engine has been serving and recommending child pornography, according to an investigation by TechCrunch and third-party researchers. After… Read More

Jan 9, 2019, 9:00 AM

Seattle startup Lubn wins CES Innovation Award for smart key box

LAS VEGAS — From a laundry-folding robot to Alexa-enabled mirrors, smart home technology is all the rage at the 2019… Read More

Jan 9, 2019, 6:00 AM

New features for Microsoft Teams chat app further company’s push to woo retail and service workers

Microsoft’s play to become the tech provider of choice for so-called “first-line workers” — people in fields like retail, hospitality and… Read More

Jan 8, 2019, 2:17 PM

Microsoft says goodbye to its past as demolition begins on original buildings ahead of big renovation

REDMOND, Wash. — Matthew Whilden has been at Microsoft for 11 years. For about 30 minutes on Tuesday, the senior… Read More

Jan 7, 2019, 3:55 PM

Is this the future of retail? We checked out the new high-tech store from Microsoft and Kroger

REDMOND, Wash. ― Attention shoppers, new technology on aisle seven. There were no audible announcements like that Monday morning at… Read More

Jan 7, 2019, 10:17 AM

GitHub introduces new product tier that lets free users keep their code private

GitHub will kick off the new year by allowing free users of the code repository service to maintain private projects,… Read More

Jan 7, 2019, 7:02 AM

Microsoft and Kroger to challenge Amazon and Whole Foods with futuristic retail technology

Can Microsoft and Kroger upgrade the grocery experience better than Amazon and Whole Foods can? That’s the unstated subplot in… Read More