Microsoft Azure widens its space ecosystem through deals with Airbus and data partners

An Airbus satellite image shows Seattle Center. (Pleiades Neo © Airbus DS 2021 / via Microsoft) One year after Microsoft expanded its Azure cloud domain to the…

Steve Ballmer praises Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ tribute

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy at the 2021 GeekWire Summit in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) Calling him a “great leader” with “incredible intellectual capacity and…

Microsoft and Xplore team up with NOAA to demonstrate cloud-based satellite operations

An artist’s rendition shows the NOAA-18 satellite in orbit. (NOAA Illustration) What do you do with an aging weather satellite? If you’re the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…