Microsoft is canceling its Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit and moving the event online due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The company has been notifying attendees that the event, which was… Read More
Nearly 150 vendor employees at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., will need to be evaluated for tuberculosis after a fellow vendor was recently diagnosed with active TB disease. Public Health —… Read More
Seattle-based health technology startup Wellpepper has been sold to Caravan Health in a deal that promises to expand the reach of Wellpepper’s technology for digital patient treatment plans. Founded more… Read More
Microsoft said it will not attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco due to the coronavirus outbreak. Sony, Facebook, Unity, and other gaming giants previously said they would not… Read More
Billionaire software executive Charles Simonyi spent tens of millions of dollars on trips to the International Space Station, but something completely different gets him up in the morning nowadays: going… Read More
Microsoft said Wednesday it will miss quarterly revenue guidance for its “More Personal Computing” business segment due to the coronavirus outbreak. “Although we see strong Windows demand in line with… Read More
A former Microsoft worker was convicted of 18 federal felonies after he stole $10 million worth of digital currency from his ex-employer and used the funds to finance extravagant purchases,… Read More
Lime is bringing its signature green, rentable electric scooters back to Redmond, Wash., March 1. Lime scooters were available in the city, where Microsoft is headquartered, throughout 2019. The mobility… Read More
Microsoft has called the upcoming Xbox Series X its most powerful console yet, and the tech giant wants to back up those claims with some new specs. The console will… Read More
Microsoft unveiled its new Global Social Entrepreneurship program Friday, in an effort to support small businesses addressing societal and environmental challenges around the world. Entrepreneurs in 140 countries can apply… Read More
Microsoft is bringing its fight against cyber criminals to more smartphone users as the tech giant announced Thursday that its Microsoft Defender antivirus software will be available for the Android… Read More
Microsoft is putting $1.1 billion into a variety of initiatives in Mexico designed to expand digital access in the country. The Redmond, Wash., company announced the program Thursday. Microsoft plans… Read More
Microsoft is launching an Office mobile app today for Android and iOS designed to make some of its signature software — Word, Excel and PowerPoint — must-have tools for all… Read More
Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as a rising competitor for human intelligence, in settings ranging from human-vs.-machine card games to the “Terminator” movie series. But according to Eric Horvitz, the… Read More
Microsoft today announced the launch of a new engineering center in India, doubling down on the country where it first established operations in 1990. The India Development Center in the… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast: Voting online is fast, convenient and also … vulnerable. In the wake of the Iowa caucuses app fiasco, we… Read More
LinkedIn plans to pull the plug next month on a Chrome browser extension that lets Gmail and GSuite users see mini LinkedIn profiles for their email correspondents in a sidebar… Read More
Bill Gates knows burgers. When Microsoft moved from Albuquerque to the Seattle region back in the 1980s, the nearby Burgermaster in Bellevue, Wash., was basically the company’s cafeteria. More recently,… Read More
A federal judge has paused work on a hotly contested cloud contract that the Defense Department awarded to Microsoft in November. The decision issued Thursday is a victory for Amazon,… Read More
Microsoft for Startups announced new milestones and offerings to companies participating in the program designed to support B2B startups. The program is now providing access to GitHub Enterprise and Microsoft… Read More
Amazon is asking a federal judge for permission to depose President Donald Trump and Defense Department officials to prove bias and personal animus led the Pentagon to award a lucrative… Read More
Amazon is the latest tech giant to pull out of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona later this month due to the coronavirus outbreak. The tech giant has… Read More
Nintendo has already reported production delays from the outbreak of coronavirus in China, and a Wall Street firm thinks the upcoming Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 could be next.… Read More
Microsoft is embarking on a reorganization that will bring part of the Windows team under the purview of Panos Panay, the tech giant’s chief product officer and face of its… Read More
The Seattle-area business community is throwing its weight behind a proposal to tax high-paying companies in the region to fund housing and services for the homeless. Amazon, Alaska Airlines, Expedia,… Read More
Microsoft Teams went down early Monday morning, gumming up the start of the week for millions of workers who rely on the tech giant’s chat and collaboration tool. Microsoft first… Read More
For the first time in its 44-year history, Microsoft’s employee count surpassed 150,000 people, the latest sign of the tech giant’s continued resurgence. Microsoft listed its global headcount as 151,163… Read More
Microsoft’s Surface hardware business reached an all-time high of nearly $2 billion in revenue for the December quarter, but the company indicated that the result would have been higher if… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox business took a hit in the most recent quarter as the company prepares to debut its new Xbox Series X console this holiday season. Console vs. cloud: What… Read More
Microsoft posted revenue of $36.9 billion for the December quarter, up 14%, and surpassed Wall Street’s expectations with profits of $11.6 billion and earnings per share of $1.51. The stronger-than-expected… Read More