[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in Seattle this week for the second year in a row,… Read More
Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB database was probably the most important thing it announced last year at Build, its annual conference for developers. A year later, Azure Cosmos DB is on… Read More
Build 2018 attendees got a peek behind the Azure curtain Wednesday from Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich, who also announced that new security technologies from Intel are now available… Read More
The cloud, artificial intelligence, Microsoft 365 and the “intelligent edge.” These were some of the major themes underpinning a flurry of announcements at Microsoft Build, the company’s big developer conference… Read More
How times have changed at Microsoft. For much of its history, the PC and Windows have been the central focus for Microsoft, but that era continues to fade into the… Read More
There has been an explosion in voice assistants — including Apple Siri, Samsung Bixby, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana — to the point that many of us are… Read More
Microsoft gave the 6,000 developers in attendance at Build 2018 some good news Monday: later this year it plans to let them keep up to 95 percent of app revenue… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella started his day by dropping all kinds of news at the opening keynote of Microsoft Build and he finished it off by taking a tour of… Read More
We’re live at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle, where we’ll be joined by two of Microsoft’s top executives, fresh off the keynote stage, for recording of our GeekWire… Read More
Microsoft’s Cortana and Amazon’s Alexa are finally talking, fulfilling a groundbreaking promise made last year to bring the rival digital assistants together. Microsoft and Amazon officials shared the stage at… Read More
Microsoft will collaborate with drone company DJI to develop commercial drone solutions for sectors including agriculture, construction and public safety, seeking to extend Windows 10 and the Microsoft Azure platform… Read More
Microsoft’s rebranding of the internet of things as “the intelligent edge” is arguably an improvement over the original moniker, but it will take more than a clever name to capture… Read More
Microsoft is bringing Kinect back this week at its Build developer conference, but in a very different fashion that the Xbox accessory from a few years back. The company plans… Read More
Microsoft plans to introduce several new features Monday that bolster its Azure cloud computing service, including a key new feature for Azure Cosmos DB, the general availability of its managed… Read More
Microsoft is committing $25 million over five years to develop artificial intelligence-powered technologies to help people with disabilities. The aim of the new program announced at the Microsoft Build developer… Read More
One of the key events on Microsoft’s yearly calendar kicks off later this morning, as thousands of developers crowd into the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle for Build… Read More
In 20 years at Microsoft, Abolade Gbadegesin has seen his share of major transitions. He’s worked under all three of its CEOs — Bill Gates, briefly; then Steve Ballmer; and… Read More