On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we talk with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the company’s 50th anniversary, and where it’s headed from here. Plus, highlights from Microsoft’s 50th… Read More
Maybe the fourth CEO of Microsoft will be some form of AI. Until then, artificial intelligence is left to serve as “host” in a conversation among the three men who… Read More
What’s the significance of Microsoft in modern business and tech history? For the past several months, in the course of reporting GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 series, we’ve asked variations of that question in interviews and email exchanges with key leaders from the company over the years.… Read More
Satya Nadella sees in Microsoft’s history a blueprint for its future. “That very first product of ours — that BASIC interpreter for the Altair — I think says it all,” the Microsoft CEO said in an interview with GeekWire this week, as the company prepared to mark its 50th anniversary.… Read More
Founded in 1986 and staffed by a team of six, the Microsoft Archives preserve nearly 135,000 physical artifacts, 170,000 digital records, and half a petabyte of digitized video content. … Read More
As Microsoft prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, company veterans are reflecting on the pivotal role of the late Paul Allen, who started the company with Bill Gates in 1975.… Read More
It would be hard to imagine three personalities more different than those of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella, the three people who have served as Microsoft CEO in… Read More
Bill Gates and Paul Allen brought Microsoft into the world. Gates and Steve Ballmer saw the company through adolescence. Ballmer was in charge for high school and college. Satya Nadella is taking Microsoft into adulthood. That’s how Ballmer sees it these days.… Read More
Breakthrough Energy, the climate-focused global initiative created by Bill Gates, has cut dozens of staff, reports The New York Times. The Seattle-based organization has scrapped its U.S. climate policy team,… Read More
Bill Gates talks about Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, parallels between AI and the early days of the PC, and where he sees the next big opportunities for innovation.… Read More
Mark Cuban tapped Bill Gates for some perspective on a recent business decision that reshaped the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA team he used to own, and he used a Microsoft… Read More
Talk about a double Billing. Bill Nye, the “Science Guy,” and Bill Gates, the software guy, came together on one stage Thursday night in Seattle for an epically geeky conversation.… Read More
Even with Microsoft’s hard-driving culture, and its vision for a computer on every desk and in every home (running Microsoft software), the magnitude of its success took many of the company’s early employees by surprise, a new oral history project shows.… Read More
In advance of the release of his new memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings, Bill Gates sat down with GeekWire for a wide-ranging conversion on topics including his extraordinary upbringing, the… Read More
Never go to the dentist the morning after an LSD trip. That’s one of the more unexpected takeaways from Bill Gates’ new memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings. “I vowed that… Read More
GeekWire revisits Bill Gates’ classic book, The Road Ahead, with insights from one of his coauthors, and finds parallels to the AI revolution happening now.… Read More
Mike Maples Sr. faced no shortage of skepticism when he joined Microsoft in 1988, after being personally (and persistently) recruited by Bill Gates to succeed the Microsoft co-founder as the… Read More
Microsoft is looking to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week as a catalyst for Windows users to upgrade to new PCs running the latest version of the… Read More
For this second chapter in our Microsoft @ 50 series, GeekWire spent the past month revisiting Microsoft’s early years, from its founding in 1975 to its IPO in 1986, looking for a new understanding and enduring lessons from its startup story.… Read More
Bill Gates has reportedly donated $50 million to an organization supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for president. Citing three unnamed sources, The New York Times said that Gates —… Read More
Just as the PC and cloud defined much of Microsoft’s first 50 years, and just as its struggles in mobile set the company back in the smartphone era, its success or failure in AI promises to determine its fate for decades to come. … Read More
Somehow the conversation with Bill Gates always turns to food. And lately, AI. Gates was back in New York City for the annual Gates Foundation Goalkeepers event this week, and… Read More
Bill Gates’ desire to find solutions for some of humanity’s most pressing problems is the focus of a new Netflix series premiering today called “What’s Next? The Future with Bill… Read More
[Editor’s Note: This week’s guest host, Ross Reynolds, is an interviewer and moderator who is well-known in the Seattle region from his 34 years at KUOW, the public radio station from which… Read More
Nuclear company TerraPower broke ground Monday on its commercial power plant, located near a soon-to-be-retired coal power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. The company’s Natrium reactor could become the first sodium-cooled,… Read More
Not just books but entire bookshelves have been devoted to the life and career of Bill Gates at this point, but the 68-year-old Microsoft co-founder has yet to tell the… Read More
Bill Gates left Harvard to start Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on Facebook. But the two tech moguls made it back to school for a reunion… Read More
Melinda French Gates announced Monday that she will resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Seattle-based philanthropic organization she started with her ex-husband in 2000. In… Read More
“Everyone poops,” declares the classic children’s book used by parents, including me, to help their kids understand what is a natural part of all animals’ lives. “Everyone poops — and… Read More
