Ballmer vows to challenge Apple, sidesteps phone question Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is bordering on obsessive when it comes to Apple these days, or at least that’s the… Read More
Microsoft vets weigh in: Here’s what needs to change Stephen Toulouse worked at Microsoft for 18 years before leaving earlier this year, so he read Kurt Eichenwald’s Vanity Fair… Read More
Microsoft’s Ballmer: Yammer’s ‘viral adoption model’ is key to $1.2 billion deal Why in the heck would Microsoft pay $1.2 billion to buy a Facebook knockoff for businesses? No one put it… Read More
Confirmed: Microsoft buying Yammer for $1.2 billion Microsoft just announced an agreement to buy Yammer, the business-oriented social network, for $1.2 billion in cash. The company will… Read More
Video: Watch the entire Microsoft Surface tablet unveiling You’ve followed the live blogs, seen the highlights and read the posts, but here’s a chance to see and assess… Read More
Memo: Ballmer rallies troops around Surface, hints at Office, Windows Phone news Yesterday was a big moment in Microsoft’s history, as the company unveiled its own tablet computer, Surface, moving into the… Read More
Microsoft’s Surface tablet: A bold and necessary risk — and some very long odds Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t display any of his trademark over-the-top energy as he unveiled the company’s new Surface tablet computer… Read More
Comments of the Week: Ballmer and basketball; Sword fighting authors; etc. The best comments, quotes, and random zingers we heard this week… “I’ve been writing science and historical fiction for three… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Microsoft’s tablet, Apple’s upgrades, and more from the week in tech I’m headed to Los Angeles on Monday for Microsoft’s mystery announcement, and we kick off this week’s GeekWire radio show… Read More
Ballmer, Nordstroms revealed as investors in Seattle NBA bid Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has signed on as an investor in a bid to build a new sports arena in… Read More
Skype boss Tony Bates: Is this Microsoft’s next CEO? There was lots of speculation a while back about the possibility of Steven Sinofsky, the Microsoft Windows president, being positioned… Read More
Steve Ballmer has an 80-inch Windows 8 tablet in his office — will you have one, too? Microsoft has said for a while that it will be offering Windows 8 on everything from tablets to giant screens,… Read More
500M Windows 8 users in 2013? What Microsoft’s Ballmer really said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is back in the news, setting tech news sites abuzz this week with the prediction that… Read More
Microsoft CEO Summit: Immelt, Huffington, Buffett and other titans in town More than 130 corporate chiefs from around the world are descending on Seattle starting today — but don’t expect to… Read More
Top 10 tech CEOs: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes a big fall (and Steve Ballmer is nowhere to be found) Apple is not only killing it in the stock market and in the living room. The company’s top brass also… Read More
Will Steve Ballmer play ball in Seattle’s NBA hoop dreams? Last summer, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a group of Seattle Rotarians last summer that the lack of an NBA… Read More
Jerry Yang is leaving, and Wall Street says Yahoo! Nearly 17 years after co-founding Yahoo, Jerry Yang is resigning from the board and “all other positions with the company,”… Read More
Report: Microsoft may cut hundreds of jobs as Ballmer looks to restructure marketing Bloomberg News reports today that Microsoft is considering a restructuring of the company’s marketing efforts, a move that could cost… Read More
Geek of the Week: U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel is on a mobile mission at CES Posting from Las Vegas: The last time we bumped into Steven VanRoekel at the Consumer Electronics Show, he was working… Read More
Live from CES: Microsoft keynote ends a tech tradition — with host Ryan Seacrest?! Posting from Las Vegas: Microsoft delivered its final Consumer Electronics Show keynote address tonight with some modest bits of news… Read More
CES Video: Steve Ballmer makes big entrance for AT&T Steve Ballmer is known for some memorable moments on stage, and AT&T Mobility chief Ralph de la Vega was almost… Read More
CES: HTC Titan II Windows Phone boasts 16MP camera Posting from Las Vegas: On stage at AT&T’s event here just now, HTC CEO Peter Chou detailed plans to offer… Read More
Year in Review: The 100 most popular stories on GeekWire Whoa, can we catch our breath now? We’ve certainly had plenty to cover on the tech beat over the past… Read More
Tech CEO report card: Approval ratings drop for Ballmer, Bezos and others Glassdoor.com is rolling out its annual “Naughty and Nice” list for technology CEOs. And, as it turns out, it looks… Read More
Microsoft: Ballmer didn’t say Windows 8 coming to phones Where did Steve Ballmer mean for the period to go? Wherever it was, Microsoft says its CEO didn’t mean to… Read More
Gates: Microsoft’s opportunity ‘stronger than it’s ever been’ Posting from Bellevue: Since leaving his day-to-day executive role at Microsoft, company co-founder Bill Gates has been known not to… Read More
What to expect at Microsoft’s annual meeting this week Microsoft will hold its annual meeting of shareholders Tuesday morning in Bellevue, just down the road from its Redmond headquarters,… Read More
Memo: Microsoft’s Ballmer finds an employee survey to love Anonymous third-party surveys of Microsoft employees don’t always turn out so well for Steve Ballmer. But Microsoft this week came… Read More
Jobs: Microsoft ‘mostly irrelevant’ with Ballmer in charge Say this for Steve Jobs: He didn’t sugarcoat things, even in his final days. But the soon-to-be-released biography of the… Read More
TechStars’ plea to Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the other ‘godfathers’ of Seattle tech Andy Sack, the director of TechStars Seattle, is accustomed to critiquing the pitches of entrepreneurs. Now, Sack is doing an… Read More
