This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring highlights from a live interview with Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures and former chief technology officer at Microsoft. Myhrvold worked at… Read More
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
It had been eleven years since Microsoft’s three CEOs had appeared together on stage, and the public reunion Friday of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella for the company’s 50th anniversary brought back brought a flood of memories for all three.… 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
A coalition of Washington state business leaders released a letter Wednesday urging state lawmakers to reconsider recently proposed tax and budget measures, echoing concerns raised by Gov. Bob Ferguson this… 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
The crowd at GeekWire’s recent Microsoft@50 event included many current and former employees and executives from the company, and we capitalized on the opportunity to recognize them. First, the Microsoft… 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
Microsoft’s Teresa Hutson has taken the role of corporate vice president for the company’s newly created Trusted Technology Group. “We believe — I believe — AI can change the world.… 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
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: A conversation with Microsoft President Brad Smith, on stage at GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event this week at Town Hall Seattle, discussing the company’s anniversary, the… Read More
Will artificial intelligence ever catch up with human intelligence? And if it does, is humanity doomed? Intellectual Ventures CEO Nathan Myhrvold, who had the job of predicting the future of tech during Microsoft’s early years, was ready with some answers at GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 anniversary event Thursday night.… Read More
GeekWire hosted hundreds of longtime Microsoft employees, key executives, company faithful and tech community members Thursday night in Seattle at Microsoft@50, a GeekWire event to mark the company’s 50th anniversary. … Read More
Microsoft named Kathleen Hogan, its longtime chief people officer, to the new role of executive vice president of strategy and transformation, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Hogan will focus on… 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
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
With recent announcements of new quantum computing advancements, Microsoft, Amazon and Google have set a new countdown clock ticking on today’s encryption — now an even shorter race than expected.… Read More
GeekWire’s Microsoft@50 event, marking the tech giant’s milestone anniversary, will feature on-stage conversations with Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith; former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer; and Nathan Myhrvold, who… Read More
Microsoft announced two AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets. Sales Agent and Sales Chat,… Read More
This week on the Geekwire Podcast: Google prepares to say goodbye to Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, we get ready to say farewell to Skype; and we take a quantum leap with… Read More
Before Zoom, before FaceTime, and before video-calling became a default feature of today’s messaging apps — there was Skype. Microsoft paid $8.5 billion in 2011 to acquire what was once a… Read More
Microsoft urged the Trump administration to change Biden-era limits on chip exports, warning that provisions of the regulations could give China an advantage in the global AI race if allowed… Read More
The impact of Microsoft over the past 50 years will be the focus of a special GeekWire event in Seattle next month as we gather with key leaders from the… Read More
Microsoft made an equity investment in Veeam, deepening its partnership with the Kirkland, Wash.-based data protection and ransomware recovery company, focused on their joint work in cloud and AI technologies.… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Microsoft’s quantum breakthrough; a Washington state bill that targets Uber and Lyft surge pricing; the latest update to the GeekWire 200 ranking… Read More
There will be no more apologies about Chime from Amazon employees to outsiders joining their meetings. That ritual of logging on to an Amazon Chime meeting will become a thing… Read More
