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Microsoft

Sleep-deprived laptop user
Jan 24, 2017, 6:49 PM

Scientists use Microsoft Bands and Bing to link lack of sleep to cognitive impairment

It may not be surprising that lack of sleep leaves you less sharp, but researchers have now quantified the effect… Read More

Jan 24, 2017, 2:55 PM

Microsoft prevails again in dispute with Justice Department over customer data in Ireland

Microsoft won a victory today when a federal appeals court narrowly declined to rehear a case involving attempts by the U.S.… Read More

Jan 24, 2017, 12:20 PM

Starbucks, Microsoft, and others raise $4.5M in one month to open homeless family shelters

Seattle-area companies like Starbucks, Microsoft, and others came together in a big way this holiday season to provide temporary housing… Read More

Jan 24, 2017, 8:44 AM

Microsoft’s new chief technology officer is a longtime LinkedIn executive

Microsoft this morning named LinkedIn executive Kevin Scott as the Redmond tech giant’s chief technology officer, filling a newly established… Read More

Army general tries HoloLens
Jan 23, 2017, 10:59 AM

Microsoft’s HoloLens joins the military

Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality headsets have been used to fight video-game aliens in space, but now they’ve been enlisted for wargames on… Read More

Amazon campus
Jan 23, 2017, 10:30 AM

How Seattle’s office market became a ‘modern day gold rush’ thanks to Amazon and other tech giants

Amazon, with its more than 300,000 global employees, has emerged as one of the world’s corporate powerhouses. But the company’s impact is especially evident… Read More

Jan 20, 2017, 4:29 PM

Microsoft to cut about 700 jobs next week, following through on previously announced layoffs

Microsoft will cut about 700 jobs in conjunction with its quarterly earnings release next week, according to a report this afternoon… Read More

Jan 19, 2017, 8:25 AM

With Microsoft on its side, LinkedIn rolling out its largest desktop redesign ever

LinkedIn has a new look. The business social network, which Microsoft acquired last year for $26.2 billion, is rolling out… Read More

Jan 18, 2017, 11:20 AM

Time to dump Windows 7? Microsoft’s German subsidiary says popular OS ‘does not meet the requirements of modern technology’

A blog post by Microsoft Germany is urging users still hanging onto Windows 7 to make the switch to Windows 10,… Read More

Jan 17, 2017, 10:27 AM

Microsoft doubles down on 3D with acquisition of Swedish company Simplygon

At its big press conference in New York last year, Microsoft unveiled its upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, promising “3D for Everyone.” Now… Read More

Jan 17, 2017, 8:41 AM

Baidu hires ex-Microsoft exec Qi Lu as president, to lead new AI push for Chinese search giant

Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine, has hired former Microsoft executive Qi Lu as its group president and chief operating… Read More

Nadella at DLD
Jan 16, 2017, 8:28 PM

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gets the message about AI’s down side for jobs

Experts on employment trends have long raised concerns about how job markets are being disrupted so quickly by artificial intelligence… Read More

Jan 16, 2017, 2:10 PM

Xbox One tops PlayStation 4 for U.S. sales in second half of 2016

More than three years after debuting, Microsoft’s Xbox One console still continues to rack up the sales. The Redmond company… Read More

Jan 12, 2017, 8:00 AM

Lawsuit: Ex-Microsoft employees claim PTSD from jobs reviewing child porn and other ‘toxic content’

Two former Microsoft employees and their families have sued the company, alleging that they developed post-traumatic stress disorder due to their… Read More

Jan 11, 2017, 5:00 AM

Study: Microsoft Teams set to pass Slack, Google Hangouts as second most-used business chat app in next 2 years

Microsoft Teams isn’t even generally available to the public yet, but one report prognosticates that the new chat app will… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 1:46 PM

For 24th straight year, IBM granted most U.S. patents, but Microsoft and Amazon are gaining

IBM is once again the king of patents, according to a new report, but other tech giants, including Pacific Northwest… Read More

Jan 10, 2017, 10:59 AM

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 privacy protections aim to give people more control over their data

Microsoft has released a new “privacy dashboard” for Windows 10 that the company says will let users exercise greater control over… Read More

Jan 5, 2017, 4:15 PM

Cortana in the car: Microsoft launches new automotive tech platform, strikes Renault-Nissan partnership

LAS VEGAS — Can Microsoft put itself in the driver’s seat in the new world of cars? After working for more… Read More

Jan 5, 2017, 9:48 AM

Microsoft plans big reorganization of partner and services groups starting Feb. 1

Microsoft is planning to consolidate many of its partner and services teams in a reorganization, as well as add a new… Read More

Jan 4, 2017, 5:09 PM

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt: A.I. isn’t as smart as you think it is. Take Microsoft’s Clippy, for example

LAS VEGAS — As artificial intelligence increasingly becomes part of our daily lives, it’s easy to see the technology as… Read More

Jan 4, 2017, 3:15 PM

The internet of beds? Microsoft exec teases the future of IoT, which could include 50 billion devices

LAS VEGAS — You may have heard about the internet of cows, but we may soon see the internet of beds… Read More

Jan 4, 2017, 1:35 PM

Say please, kids! Mattel’s new Cortana-powered smart hub can require good manners

LAS VEGAS — A new smart hub announced today by Mattel, targeted to kids and parents, is notable in part because… Read More

Jan 3, 2017, 2:29 PM

Qualcomm launches new Windows 10-friendly Snapdragon 835 processor

LAS VEGAS — Qualcomm launched the latest version of its widely used Snapdragon mobile processor line today, laying the foundation for… Read More

Satya Nadella
Dec 28, 2016, 10:26 AM

Microsoft in 2016: Surging stock, new devices and a huge new AI team

Satya Nadella’s third year as CEO of Microsoft turned out to be a pretty good one. Microsoft closed the year… Read More

Dec 26, 2016, 10:58 AM

Microsoft could be first tech company to reach trillion-dollar market value, analyst predicts

Following Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, one analyst thinks the Redmond, Wash. tech giant is on pace to become… Read More

Dec 26, 2016, 8:14 AM

Analytics startup CloudMoyo grows to 200 people a year after Icertis spin-off

In a computing landscape where the word “cloud” figures into most every conversation and company name, the name CloudMoyo stands… Read More

Dec 26, 2016, 7:25 AM

What GeekWire’s top stories of 2016 say about the state of humanity

Unprecedented global connectivity, a search for solitude in a fast-paced world, a yearning to connect with something bigger than ourselves … and,… Read More

Dec 22, 2016, 9:41 AM

U.S. Defense Department won’t get direct access to Microsoft source code after all

The U.S. Defense Department will not get direct access to Microsoft source code under a $927-million support contract signed earlier this week,… Read More

Dec 20, 2016, 4:12 PM

Microsoft wins $927M support contract from U.S. Defense Department

Microsoft has won a $927-million, five-year contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The company earlier… Read More

Dec 19, 2016, 8:44 AM

Microsoft is cool enough again to be spoofed on SNL

Microsoft has made it (again). The Redmond software giant landed a skit on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this week, spoofing… Read More

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