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
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft on Friday unveiled a series of updates to its Copilot AI assistant for consumers, including a new personalized memory feature designed to recall details from a… 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
On this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast — part of our Microsoft@50 series — former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reflects on his remarkable tenure at the company he helped… Read More
Ask not what Microsoft can do for AI, but what AI can do for global productivity. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, speaking at Madrona‘s 2025 annual meeting in Seattle, explained how… 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
Satya Nadella is a fan of multimodal AI interfaces — the ability to interact with a chatbot not just through text but through voice, for example — so much so… Read More
Reporting quarterly earnings Wednesday afternoon, it will be tough for Microsoft to avoid the issue of the AI breakthroughs from China’s DeepSeek that are shaking up the tech world and… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had the quote of the week in response to a question from CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin about Elon Musk questioning the ability of the new Stargate… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we delve into the Stargate Project announcement by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, in conjunction with President Trump, and assess the implications for OpenAI’s relationship… Read More
Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta), that will be responsible for building fundamental AI technologies and tools… Read More
Microsoft shareholders turned down a proposal calling on the company to consider diversifying its investments by including Bitcoin in the mix, but the company was actually more open-minded than it… Read More
Microsoft investors turned down six shareholder proposals at its annual meeting Tuesday, three of them focused on the risks of artificial intelligence to its business. The other three addressed the… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guest is Sam Schillace, a deputy CTO at Microsoft and author of the new book, No Prize for Pessimism, the first title from… Read More
If security is really more important than everything else, will it be in the keynote? Microsoft, under intense pressure to better protect its systems and customers from cyberattacks, will answer… Read More
Microsoft disclosed the size of its OpenAI investment for the first time, acknowledging in its quarterly regulatory filing Wednesday afternoon that it has made “total funding commitments of $13 billion”… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was awarded more than $79 million in total compensation for the tech giant’s 2024 fiscal year, up from $48.5 million a year earlier, according to the… Read More
AI agents are reigniting the competition between Microsoft and Salesforce. Microsoft announced 10 new AI agents for its Dynamics 365 line of business applications — tools that can complete tasks… 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
Microsoft gave new details about its security initiatives on Monday morning, less than five months after CEO Satya Nadella and security leader Charlie Bell outlined a series of reforms to… Read More
Microsoft is aiming to address skepticism about the value of AI in its flagship productivity applications — and justify the premium price for business users — with a new wave… Read More
Microsoft named General Electric’s former chief financial officer, Carolina Dybeck Happe, as its new executive vice president and chief operations officer. Dybeck Happe will join the company’s senior leadership team,… Read More
Oracle announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services on Monday afternoon that will further integrate its database offerings and cloud infrastructure with the Seattle tech giant’s cloud platform. It… Read More
Microsoft will elevate security to the status of “core priority” for all employees as part of the process of focusing their work and reviewing performance, according to an internal email… Read More
Microsoft’s earnings report Tuesday afternoon, July 30, will provide new insights into the impact of artificial intelligence on its business, and the company’s attempt to keep pace with anticipated AI… Read More
Microsoft will no longer serve as an observer on the OpenAI board, despite a multi-billion dollar investment that gives the Redmond company a major financial stake in the for-profit entity… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft showed new integrations between its Copilot artificial intelligence technologies and its Windows PC operating system, and previewed a new class of personal computers designed to further… Read More
