Microsoft board approves outside review of harassment and discrimination policies, including assessment of Bill Gates investigation
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company is “committed not just to reviewing the report but learning from the assessment so we can continue to improve the…
Microsoft’s $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard deal will test new U.S. antitrust approach
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the Activision Blizzard deal will help the company “bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet.” (GeekWire Photo…
Microsoft’s earnings will test strength of cloud business, and impact of supply chain constraints
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Seattle in May 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Much of the spotlight has been on Microsoft’s gaming division over the past…
Microsoft beats expectations with $51.7B in revenue, $18.8B profit; stock down 5% after hours
Microsoft’s Redmond Washington campus. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft posted revenue of $51.7 billion in the December quarter, up 20% from the same quarter last year,…
Microsoft Teams surpasses 270M monthly active users, as growth slows from early days of pandemic
Microsoft Teams usage soared in the early days of the pandemic. (Bigstock Photo) Microsoft’s Teams communications and collaboration platform topped 270 million monthly active users in the…
Microsoft’s new heyday: PC ‘renaissance’ and cloud boom drive record revenue and employment
Microsoft surpassed $50 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, with profits of $18.8 billion, up 22%, in its financial results posted Tuesday afternoon. Generating profits…
Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’
Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. (Microsoft Photo) “Your code will be attacked.”…
Satya Nadella’s biggest success as Microsoft CEO; Inside GeekWire’s Great Race; Number of the Week
Satya Nadella at Microsoft Ignite 2016, two years into his tenure as Microsoft CEO and a few months after announcing the company’s acquisition of LinkedIn. (GeekWire File…
Zain Nadella, 1996-2022: Microsoft CEO’s son remembered for love of music, profound impact on his dad
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his wife Anu Nadella, photographed with their son, Zain. (Photo courtesy Microsoft and Seattle Children’s) Zain Nadella, the son of Microsoft CEO…
‘Our country is in a cyberwar’: Inside the White House summit with Hadi Partovi of Code.org
Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi. (GeekWire File Photo) President Joe Biden brought together top executives from the nation’s biggest technology, financial services and energy companies this week to…