Those lime green Seattle Sounders FC jerseys around Seattle will have “Xbox” printed on the front for at least one more year. First noted by Don Ruiz at the Tacoma… Read More
At its big media event today, Apple announced that anyone who purchases a new iOS device — iPhone, iPad, 5th generation iPod Touch — will receive the iWork suite of… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — When Michael Arrington asked Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff who the next CEO of Microsoft should be on stage this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt, Benioff had a one-word… Read More
Microsoft debuted a new program today that allows nonprofits and NGO’s of any size to use Office 365 without paying a cent. Through its Technology for Good program, Microsoft just… Read More
Bill Gates suddenly has another CEO position to fill. Jeff Raikes, the 55-year-old CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is retiring after five years in the role with the… Read More
Sure, Microsoft may have backed out from some of its original Xbox One online policies after backlash from customers. But that doesn’t mean that the company has stopped thinking about… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is sitting pretty. Most recently, the cloud storage company raised $250 million on a $4 billion valuation in 2011, and according to Houston,… Read More
Note: Story updated since original post to correct reference to timing of profits. Microsoft has spent billions on its Xbox business over the years, and seen its share of red… Read More
Microsoft this morning sent out media invites for a Surface event on Sept. 23 in New York City, where the company is expected to unveil the second generation of its… Read More
Updated below with additional details. Microsoft’s new Operating Systems Engineering Group — responsible for OS development across Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox — is filling out its executive team under… Read More
Microsoft is expanding its Xbox Music service to new platforms with the release of apps for iOS and Android, plus a web player for streaming music. The news tonight comes… Read More
There’s a lot to talk about on this week’s GeekWire radio show, including Microsoft’s $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone business, our hands-on impressions of Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite, and… Read More
“It’s become painfully clear that my bid to become the new CEO of Microsoft will not be successful, so today is my last day at Microsoft.” That’s the very tongue-in-cheek… Read More
One of the more interesting candidates we’ve heard discussed as the possible next Microsoft CEO is Ford’s Alan Mulally, interesting in part because he is a pal of Steve Ballmer’s;… Read More
Mary-Claire King, the famed scientist who discovered the link between the BRCA1 gene and many forms of breast and ovarian cancer, is portrayed by Helen Hunt in “Decoding Annie Parker,” scheduled… Read More
Larger than a phone, smaller than a tablet — yes, it’s a “phablet,” to use the much-derided term for the device segment best known for Samsung’s Galaxy Note. And the… Read More
Updated with Google comment. A federal jury in Seattle ruled in Microsoft’s favor this afternoon in a patent dispute with Motorola Solutions — finding unanimously that Motorola breached its contractual… Read More
Microsoft is going through some serious changes. The company is getting into the smartphone business by acquiring Nokia, CEO Steve Ballmer is leaving, and on top of that, Microsoft is completely changing its… Read More
More details from both Neowin and WinSuperSite shed light on the next-generation Surface Pro, which will feature some nice upgrades internally and a new kickstand. Called the Surface Pro 2, Microsoft’s… Read More
Updated with details of Motorola’s closing argument. After a trial lasting more than a week, lawyers for Microsoft and Motorola are making their closing arguments in U.S. District Court in… Read More
Nope, that’s not the Surface Pro above — but it sure does look and act like one. Sony today introduced what it calls the world’s thinnest tablet, also known as… Read More
Microsoft this morning announced the long-awaited release date for the Xbox One, saying that the new living room console will be released on Nov. 22. It’s a symbolically significant date… Read More
If you’re a gamer, it’s hard not to be really freakin’ excited for this November when two new consoles — the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One — finally hit store… Read More
–Steve Coast, one of the founders of OpenStreetMap, has left his position on the Bing Mobile team at Microsoft to work at Telenav. In a post to his blog announcing… Read More
So far, so good for the Xbox One. Xbox chief marketing officer Yusef Mehdi just spoke at the Citi Global Technology Conference and said Microsoft is now in full production for the… Read More
You knew Microsoft was placing a big investment in sports when it signed a multi-million dollar contract with the NFL earlier this year. Now the company is showing off its… Read More
Microsoft’s conference call on its $7.2 billion Nokia Devices & Services acquisition just wrapped up, summarizing the key points of the deal, and the final question was one of the… Read More
Yes, in raw numbers, Microsoft is paying less for Nokia’s Devices & Services business than it did for Skype — forking over $7.2 billion for the smartphone maker, compared with… Read More
Microsoft’s gross margin from royalties on Windows Phones sold by Nokia is less than $10 per unit, but the margin will be more than $40 per unit once Nokia’s Windows… Read More