PREVIOUSLY: Microsoft caps off a historic fiscal year filled with firsts Microsoft finished off a record fiscal year by hitting all-time highs for both revenue and profit in its fourth quarter.… Read More
Microsoft will close out a record-setting fiscal year for the company today, reporting earnings for its fourth quarter. RELATED: Microsoft posts $110B in revenue for the year, cruising past Wall Street… Read More
Cloud computing is big business dominated by the world’s largest tech companies. Three of the four most valuable tech companies — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — are among the most… Read More
Follow-up stories: Microsoft CEO calls border policy ‘cruel and abusive,’ says company’s technology isn’t aiding separation of parents and children Microsoft employees ask company to cancel contract with ICE in… Read More
There’s just one more day left to take advantage of the early-bird pricing for the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, which will showcase some of the top leaders in cloud computing… Read More
GeekWire is spending the week at Microsoft’s annual Build developer’s conference, where the company is pitching its cloud and enterprise offerings and announcing a slew of new initiatives and products.… Read More
Microsoft said Wednesday it plans to invest $5 billion in the complicated-but-exciting world of Internet of Things over the next four years. In a blog post, Corporate Vice President of… Read More
Microsoft has established a new gaming cloud division, giving the tech giant another way to stand out in its quest to catch Amazon Web Services. The Verge’s Tom Warren reports… Read More
In October 2016, Microsoft stock hit a then all-time high of $59.66, eclipsing a milestone set 17 years prior. Fifteen months later, Microsoft stock sits at $94, up 58 percent… Read More
Meltdown and Spectre. You’ve probably been hearing these terms a lot. These are vulnerabilities discovered in many of the computer processors used not only in our computers and devices but… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Microsoft held its annual meeting Wednesday morning, with CEO Satya Nadella and other top executives briefing shareholders on the latest developments at the Seattle-area technology giant. Shareholders… Read More
Microsoft posted revenue of $24.5 billion, up 12 percent, and profits of $6.6 billion, or 84 cents per share, exceeding Wall Street’s expectations by 12 cents per share in the… Read More
Numbers released this week put Microsoft’s new era into clearer focus. The takeaway: The big Microsoft businesses that have shifted most aggressively to the cloud — its Office and Server… Read More
It might have been a holiday week, but it was still a busy one for the Seattle tech scene. First up: Microsoft finally confirmed a big sales reorganization that will cut… Read More
Aseem Datar’s rise at Microsoft has taken him all the way to the cloud. In his 14 almost years at the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant, Datar has risen from developer… Read More
Advanced Micro Devices’ long road back to relevance as a data center computing supplier got a little easier with promises of support from two of the biggest server buyers on… Read More
New adopters of cloud computing services marvel about the cost efficiency they’re seeing compared to their traditional infrastructure, but Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie thinks a new wave of super-efficient… Read More
Microsoft’s once-unthinkable evolution into a major open-source player continued Tuesday with its decision to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Microsoft will improve the ties between Cloud Foundry, a popular open-source… Read More
Three hundred billion dollars and growing: that is the size of the cloud market in front of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. At the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit on Wednesday, Morgan… Read More
Amazon and Microsoft are at the top of the food chain in the growing cloud world, battling for everything from customers to talent. Both are based in the Seattle area, and… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a ninth grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast and blogger who was invited by Microsoft to attend the Build developer conference in Seattle this past… Read More
Microsoft’s Build 2017 conference just ended, and GeekWire has been busy covering the news, from the new Azure Cosmos DB to the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and Microsoft’s first… Read More
Microsoft says total revenue from its commercial cloud businesses will reach an estimated $14.8 billion in its current fiscal year, ending June 30 — an increase of more than 55 percent from its… Read More
Caddies are trying to make a comeback — albeit in a virtual way. Arccos, a Stamford, Conn.-based startup that builds golf-shot tracking technology, today announced a new product in partnership with… Read More
LaLiga wants to learn more about its fans and expand its footprint around the globe — and it’s getting help from Microsoft to make that happen. Spain’s premier soccer league is… Read More
Following yesterday’s positive earnings report, Amazon is well on its way toward hitting $1,000 a share, but one firm is unsure that the good times will keep on rolling. Pacific… Read More
Azure was the star of Microsoft’s cloud division during its third fiscal quarter, with revenue growing 93 percent as part of $6.8 billion in Intelligent Cloud group revenue during the… Read More
Microsoft showed off five new Azure customers at an event in New York on Wednesday, more evidence that companies born long before cloud computing became fashionable are modernizing their tech… Read More
As cloud computing matures, more and more technical concepts that once required a lot of specialized expertise are being simplified and offered to customers as easy-to-use templates. A great example… Read More
Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would normally take place outside the database. The company says the… Read More