Zain Nadella, the son of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his wife, Anu Nadella, died Monday at the age of 26, according to a message sent to the company’s executives.… Read More
Microsoft is adding to its climate leadership ranks by hiring Elisabeth Brinton as corporate vice president of sustainability. The software and cloud giant is also creating a Sustainability Industry team,… Read More
Microsoft says it began detecting “destructive cyberattacks directed against Ukraine’s digital infrastructure” several hours before the Russian military began launching missiles or moving tanks into the country last week. The… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox department announced on Wednesday that Xbox users can once again stream their gameplay directly from their consoles to Twitch. While a Twitch app was available for the Xbox… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — After working from home for more than two years, Microsoft employees returning to the company’s headquarters starting next week might not recognize the place. Entire buildings have… Read More
Two former members of the Google Maps team have navigated their way to Microsoft, joining the Redmond company as corporate vice presidents on its Maps and Local team, part of… Read More
What does Microsoft’s return to the office mean for everybody else? That was one of the questions raised by the tech giant’s announcement Monday that it will fully reopen its… Read More
Updated below with information on Expedia reopening. One of the longest “three weeks” in history will soon come to an end. Nearly two years after asking its employees to work… Read More
Our guest on the GeekWire Podcast this week, Ashley Stewart, is a Seattle-based senior tech correspondent for Insider who reports on Microsoft and Amazon. She and her colleagues reported on… Read More
Can a big tech company simultaneously run and participate in an online marketplace in a way that’s fair to third parties who use the platform themselves? That is a core… Read More
Ed Fries is having a big week. His games-focused venture fund 1Up Ventures put money into two separate new gaming studios that debuted on Wednesday: Seattle’s Lost Lake Games and… Read More
“Your code will be attacked.” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code,… Read More
Seattle-area tech giants Amazon and Microsoft were global leaders in clean energy power purchase agreements made by corporations last year. Amazon held the top spot for the second year in… Read More
Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based game developer that originally developed the platform-defining Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, has agreed to be acquired by Sony, maker of the competing PlayStation consoles, for… Read More
Microsoft surpassed $50 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, with profits of $18.8 billion, up 22%, in its financial results posted Tuesday afternoon. Generating profits at that rate,… Read More
Microsoft’s Teams communications and collaboration platform topped 270 million monthly active users in the December quarter, continuing to add users but at a much slower pace than in the initial… Read More
Microsoft posted revenue of $51.7 billion in the December quarter, up 20% from the same quarter last year, and profits of $18.8 billion, an increase of 21%, with earnings per… Read More
Much of the spotlight has been on Microsoft’s gaming division over the past week, thanks to its $68.7 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard. But that’s a long-term strategy, with… Read More
Why would Microsoft pay $68.7 billion for video-game giant Activision Blizzard? Hope Cochran, managing director at venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group in Seattle, is in a unique position to… Read More
New Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has confirmed that the best-selling video game series Call of Duty will continue to be available on the PlayStation platform, two days after Microsoft… Read More
Roughly 9,200 affordable housing units are being preserved or created in the greater Seattle area thanks to an initiative launched by Microsoft three years ago. An additional 19,000 households have… Read More
Announcing its record-setting deal to acquire game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, Microsoft pointed out that the combination would make it the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue. “Together… Read More
Microsoft’s plan to buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in cash is a whopper by every stretch of the imagination — the biggest in the company’s 47-year-history and more than… Read More
Microsoft is aiming to vault itself into the upper echelon of video games with its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant behind such franchises as Warcraft,… Read More
Microsoft’s board is directing the company to hire an outside firm to review its sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and practices, saying it will “address the full scope” of… Read More
Microsoft has discontinued its Xbox One video game console — or rather, it’s been discontinued for over a year. The Xbox One, Microsoft’s third model of the Xbox and its… Read More
Microsoft’s original mission was “a computer on every desk and in every home.” OK, sure, it was a “temporal goal,” not an enduring mission, as current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella… Read More
Zebra Technologies, maker of mobile devices widely used in warehouses, stores, and manufacturing facilities, will devote a hardware button on many of its handheld computers to the push-to-talk feature in… Read More
Scott Waller is a former Cisco and Microsoft systems engineer and network architect who was inspired by his experience as a volunteer firefighter and avalanche instructor to launch an Internet… Read More
The third-party development studio behind the Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy video game franchises is bringing its official game subscription service to the Xbox platform. Ubisoft’s eponymous game subscription service,… Read More