What’s the significance of Microsoft in modern business and tech history? For the past several months, in the course of reporting GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 series, we’ve asked variations of that question in interviews and email exchanges with key leaders from the company over the years. Read More
Satya Nadella sees in Microsoft’s history a blueprint for its future. “That very first product of ours — that BASIC interpreter for the Altair — I think says it all,” the Microsoft CEO said in an interview with GeekWire this week, as the company prepared to mark its 50th anniversary. Read More
Founded in 1986 and staffed by a team of six, the Microsoft Archives preserve nearly 135,000 physical artifacts, 170,000 digital records, and half a petabyte of digitized video content. Read More
As Microsoft prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, company veterans are reflecting on the pivotal role of the late Paul Allen, who started the company with Bill Gates in 1975. Read More
Bill Gates and Paul Allen brought Microsoft into the world. Gates and Steve Ballmer saw the company through adolescence. Ballmer was in charge for high school and college. Satya Nadella is taking Microsoft into adulthood. That’s how Ballmer sees it these days. Read More
Bill Gates talks about Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, parallels between AI and the early days of the PC, and where he sees the next big opportunities for innovation. Read More
Even with Microsoft’s hard-driving culture, and its vision for a computer on every desk and in every home (running Microsoft software), the magnitude of its success took many of the company’s early employees by surprise, a new oral history project shows. Read More
GeekWire revisits Bill Gates’ classic book, The Road Ahead, with insights from one of his coauthors, and finds parallels to the AI revolution happening now. Read More
For this second chapter in our Microsoft @ 50 series, GeekWire spent the past month revisiting Microsoft’s early years, from its founding in 1975 to its IPO in 1986, looking for a new understanding and enduring lessons from its startup story. Read More
Just as the PC and cloud defined much of Microsoft’s first 50 years, and just as its struggles in mobile set the company back in the smartphone era, its success or failure in AI promises to determine its fate for decades to come. Read More
Nuclear company TerraPower broke ground Monday on its commercial power plant, located near a soon-to-be-retired coal power plant in Kemmerer,… Read More
