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Microsoft and PC makers release first Copilot+ PCs without flagship ‘Recall’ AI feature at launch

by Todd Bishop on June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 at 12:07 pm

Microsoft and its PC partners Tuesday pressed ahead with the release of the first Copilot+ PCs despite delaying the AI-powered “Recall” feature to address security and privacy concerns. Rather than… Read More

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Congressional hearing pits Microsoft’s actions vs. words in public grilling over security failures

by Todd Bishop on June 13, 2024June 13, 2024 at 11:43 am

Updated below with details from hearing. Microsoft President Brad Smith previewed his approach in prepared written testimony for his appearance Thursday before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security for… Read More

Microsoft updates Recall feature after security and privacy backlash

by Taylor Soper on June 7, 2024June 7, 2024 at 10:58 am

Microsoft announced Friday that it is making changes to a new feature called “Recall,” turning it into an opt-in experience and adding more layers of security after experts raised concerns… Read More

Reports: Microsoft under new antitrust scrutiny over Inflection deal and AI dominance

by Taylor Soper on June 5, 2024June 6, 2024 at 8:09 am

Microsoft is facing a pair of new antitrust probes from the Federal Trade Commission, according to reports Wednesday evening from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The FTC… Read More

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80 years after D-Day, Microsoft uses AI to enhance archival materials and keep memories alive

by Kurt Schlosser on June 4, 2024June 5, 2024 at 2:16 pm

Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to help preserve the history of D-Day, 80 years after allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, and turned the tide of World… Read More

Bill Gates announces new book, ‘Source Code,’ a memoir about his early years, coming in 2025

by Todd Bishop on June 4, 2024June 4, 2024 at 7:12 am

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

Microsoft cuts jobs in Azure, HoloLens, and other units in latest move to control costs

by Todd Bishop on June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 at 4:04 pm

Microsoft is cutting a total of around 1,000 jobs across the company, in areas including its Azure cloud unit and HoloLens mixed-reality organization, a person familiar with the matter confirmed… Read More

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Microsoft Copilot+ PCs: Is this the AI computer revolution we’ve been looking for?

by Todd Bishop on May 25, 2024May 25, 2024 at 8:38 am

Microsoft and major PC makers this week announced a plan to incorporate artificial intelligence directly into personal computers, adding on-board neural processing units (NPUs) as part of a new architecture… Read More

OpenAI’s Sam Altman appears at Microsoft Build amid dustup over voice technologies

by Todd Bishop on May 21, 2024May 23, 2024 at 1:25 pm

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman played the role of closing act for the opening keynote at Microsoft’s Build developer conference in Seattle on Tuesday morning, in an appearance that was perhaps… Read More

Microsoft will make Khan Academy’s Khanmigo AI tool free to U.S. teachers in cloud shift

by Todd Bishop on May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 at 10:05 am

Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced Tuesday morning. Microsoft says it will donate access to its… Read More

Microsoft’s new ‘Team Copilot’ AI assistant runs meetings, manages projects, assigns tasks

by Todd Bishop on May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 at 10:04 am

Microsoft will test the limits of artificial intelligence in group collaboration with a new AI assistant that keeps meetings on track, takes collaborative notes, manages large projects, and assigns tasks.… Read More

Microsoft’s carbon footprint keeps growing as AI drives data center expansions

by Lisa Stiffler on May 15, 2024May 15, 2024 at 9:31 am

In 2020, Microsoft made an ambitious commitment to make its operations carbon negative within a decade, removing more carbon from the environment than it emits each year. But four years… Read More

Longtime CEO to leave Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company

by Todd Bishop on May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 at 3:52 pm

Bill Hilf, the veteran tech executive and longtime CEO of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s holding company, formerly known as Vulcan Inc., is stepping down after more than seven years.… Read More

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Shift AI Podcast: How AI is evolving in 2024, with Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Pablo Castro

by Boaz Ashkenazy on May 9, 2024May 9, 2024 at 6:45 am

As a distinguished engineer working on the Microsoft Azure AI Search team, Pablo Castro has insight into the inner workings of generative AI, AI search, and the approach that Microsoft… Read More

Microsoft to invest $3.3B in Wisconsin AI data center as Biden hits at Trump over jobs creation

by Kurt Schlosser on May 8, 2024May 8, 2024 at 11:07 am

Microsoft plans to invest $3.3 billion in an artificial intelligence-related initiative in Wisconsin, giving a boost to President Joe Biden’s job-creation efforts in the key election battleground state. The investment,… Read More

Microsoft study: 75% of knowledge workers using AI at work, nearly doubling in six months

by Todd Bishop on May 8, 2024May 8, 2024 at 5:08 am

Microsoft released a new version of a study that has documented the transformation of work over the past few years, from the implications of remote and hybrid work to the… Read More

Podcast

Amazon vs. Trader Joe’s; Bill Gates still a force at Microsoft; Inside the Binance founder’s sentencing

by Todd Bishop & John Cook on May 4, 2024May 4, 2024 at 8:53 am

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s, and the related tactics revealed in “The Everything War,” the new book by Dana Mattioli… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Build 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)

Internal memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers a new mandate on security

by Todd Bishop on May 3, 2024May 3, 2024 at 9:52 am

This is the text of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s internal memo sent to employees Friday, May 3, about the company’s new security initiatives, expanding on Microsoft Security leader Charlie Bell’s… Read More

Microsoft will base part of senior exec comp on security, add deputy CISOs to product groups

by Todd Bishop on May 3, 2024May 3, 2024 at 9:54 am

Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major security breaches, under growing pressure from government leaders and big… Read More

Capital spending soars in the cloud as Microsoft, Google, and others bet big on AI demand

by Todd Bishop on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 at 7:56 am

Analysts, investors, and the media are suddenly focused intensely on capital expenditures by tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others to size up the industry’s bet on the cloud… Read More

Haunted by breaches, Microsoft is ‘putting security above all else,’ vows CEO Satya Nadella

by Todd Bishop on April 25, 2024April 25, 2024 at 8:34 pm

Satya Nadella has made a habit of touting the revenue growth in the company’s security technology business on Microsoft’s earnings calls. But not this time. Microsoft’s CEO took a different… Read More

Microsoft beats expectations as quarterly profits rise 20% to nearly $22B

by Todd Bishop on April 25, 2024April 26, 2024 at 9:05 am

Updated with details from Microsoft’s earnings conference call. Microsoft posted a 17% increase in revenue, to $61.9 billion, with $21.9 billion in profits, up 20%, and earnings of $2.94 per… Read More

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In mind-bending chat with deepfake digital twin, Reid Hoffman discusses Microsoft’s big AI hire

by John Cook on April 24, 2024April 25, 2024 at 8:23 am

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman — the entrepreneur, author, podcaster, venture capitalist and Microsoft board member — is on the front lines of the artificial intelligence revolution.  Even as a pioneer in the… Read More

Microsoft and partners open major new pedestrian bridge to span campus and transportation needs

by Kurt Schlosser on April 22, 2024May 7, 2024 at 8:18 am

People on foot, riding bicycles, and even those cruising on electric skateboards crisscrossed over a busy highway between Microsoft’s old and new campuses on Monday as a dramatic new pedestrian… Read More

Microsoft invests $1.5B in G42, the Emirati AI holding company based in Abu Dhabi

by Taylor Soper on April 15, 2024April 16, 2024 at 10:47 am

Microsoft is making another big AI-related investment, this time pouring $1.5 billion into G42, a AI holding company based in the United Arab Emirates. The deal marks Microsoft’s latest strategic… Read More

Podcast

Can AI save the world? New book from Microsoft aims to show the potential for positive change

by Todd Bishop on April 6, 2024April 6, 2024 at 9:26 am

A few years ago, Microsoft researchers and data scientists used machine learning to help marine biologists analyze patterns in underwater recordings of beluga whales. Upon learning about the project, another… Read More

Cyber Safety Review Board finds Microsoft security culture ‘inadequate,’ calls for accountability

by Todd Bishop on April 2, 2024April 2, 2024 at 5:53 pm

Microsoft comes under intense scrutiny and pointed criticism in a 34-page report released Tuesday by the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), a group created by the U.S. Secretary of Homeland… Read More

Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally in new attempt to appease antitrust regulators

by Todd Bishop on April 1, 2024April 1, 2024 at 5:05 pm

Microsoft says it will offer its Teams and Office 365 separately for business customers globally, unbundling the two programs and expanding an approach that it introduced in the European Economic… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Inside a Tesla Cybertruck; how police dogs find devices; Ballmer’s comedian son

by Todd Bishop on March 30, 2024March 30, 2024 at 8:05 am

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Reporter Kurt Schlosser takes us inside a Tesla Cybertruck, explains what it was like to drive one, and tells us how people reacted to… Read More

Data protection giant Veeam moves HQ to Seattle region, tops $1.5B in annual recurring revenue

by Todd Bishop on March 29, 2024March 29, 2024 at 5:55 am

KIRKLAND, Wash. — Credit the cloud, and the talent. The cricket is just a bonus. Veeam Software, the top company by market share in data protection and ransomware recovery, has… Read More

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