Microsoft said it got a court order to seize 50 websites used by a hacker group with ties to North Korea that targeted government employees, universities, human rights organizations and… Read More
In the leadup to its acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016, Microsoft promised to take a deliberate, hands-off approach to integrating the business social network with its own products, learning a… Read More
From Amazon to Zillow, big successes to surprising failures, it was an extraordinary year for technology and innovation emerging from and impacting Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. That’s our consensus… Read More
Microsoft’s vision for Cortana continues to evolve, and according to a new patent, the next step for the digital assistant could include new capabilities to better read and summarize emails,… Read More
It’s only been a few weeks since Microsoft President Brad Smith completed his book tour, in which he reflected on the most important tech policy issues he’s experienced during his… Read More
Microsoft is getting behind Evisort, a startup that makes artificial intelligence software to automate processing and tracking of corporate contracts. Microsoft’s investment arm M12 co-led a $15 million Series A… Read More
The surprising announcement of the new Xbox Series X console last week garnered plenty of reaction, and one of the big points of conversation was the name. As the dust… Read More
A few months after the announcement of Project Scarlett, Microsoft took to the Game Awards stage on Thursday night to debut the next Xbox by its new, official name: the… Read More
The design and power of the new Xbox Series X captured the attention of the internet in the wake of Microsoft’s surprise reveal of the next-generation console Thursday night. RELATED:… Read More
Microsoft’s push to recruit people to work on the JEDI project to build cloud infrastructure for the U.S. Department of Defense is in full swing, according to a new report,… Read More
It’s been a tough year for tech, and the barrage of negative headlines dogging the industry may be hitting companies in one of their most sensitive spots: recruiting. Glassdoor’s new… Read More
Melissa Mulholland was 16 weeks pregnant with her second child when her doctor noticed something unusual in an ultrasound scan. It was a rare fetal condition called posterior urethral valves,… Read More
Microsoft today made Microsoft Teams workplace communication app for Linux available in a public preview. It’s the first Microsoft 365 app for Linux desktops, the company said in a blog… Read More
Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the physician and scientist who led the world’s largest philanthropy as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for more than five years, announced Thursday morning that… Read More
A consumer version of Microsoft 365, the bundle of some of the tech giant’s top programs and services, is on the way next year. ZDNet reports that an announcement of… Read More
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is bracing for fast-growing rival Microsoft Teams to hit 100 million users as soon as a year from now, five times what it has today. But… Read More
Several sources, such as Kotaku and The Verge, reported today that Microsoft’s plans for its next-generation Xbox also include a second model, currently codenamed “Lockhart.” Lockhart is tentatively planned to… Read More
Microsoft shareholders roundly defeated a proposal to put a rank-and-file employee on the company’s board of directors. Speaking during the company’s first-ever virtual annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, Microsoft general… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy put the company’s neighboring tech giant directly in his sights here Tuesday morning, criticizing Microsoft’s licensing practices and making it clear… Read More
An alliance of some of the world’s biggest companies and labor unions want the U.S. to stay in the Paris Agreement to deal with climate change. Tech heavy-hitters such as… Read More
When Microsoft published its proxy statement in October, it contained an unusual shareholder resolution. The proposal? Adding a rank-and-file employee to Microsoft’s board of directors. Microsoft’s filing left the identity… Read More
IntraWorlds, a Munich-based talent relationship management software provider, is merging with Conenza, a Seattle startup launched in 2006 by Tony Audino, co-founder of Voyager Capital and founder of the Microsoft… Read More
Gretchen O’Hara is a diehard Microsoft fan. You might have guessed as much given that she’s worked for the Redmond, Wash.-based cloud and tech giant for more than two decades,… Read More
Microsoft has quietly started making political contributions again after suspending donations in July to address employee concerns. Federal election reports reveal Microsoft resumed political spending in October through its political… Read More
Rivals Microsoft and Slack are sparring yet again, this time over new growth figures that show Teams pulling well ahead of its top competitor. Last week, Microsoft said Teams reached… Read More
— Swedish cloud communications platform Sinch named Vikram Khandpur, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, as chief product officer. He’ll be based in Seattle, where Sinch has a 20-person office and is… Read More
It looks like virtual reality capabilities won’t be coming to Xbox any time soon. VR doesn’t fit with Xbox’s perspective of gaming as a communal experience, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President… Read More
An immersive new exhibition at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry is blending technology from the 17th and 21st centuries to transport visitors into a unique tour of a medieval… Read More
It’s one thing to leave a note for Santa and hope for some sort of reply. It’s quite another to use technology to try to speak to some reindeer. But… Read More
Microsoft and AT&T today unveiled the first big plan as part of their multi-year cloud alliance: Combining AT&T’s burgeoning 5G network with Microsoft’s edge computing services to speed up Internet… Read More