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Microsoft turns 50: 4 employees recall their early years
Microsoft built things. It broke things. It created opportunities for people who never thought they’d work in the tech ...
Microsoft just turned 50. Here’s a look at an iconic 1978 photo of its first employees and where they are now
Microsoft’s earliest employees took a photo in 1978 that shows just how much has changed in the now-50 years since the ...
Microsoft killed Skype and trapped her money. She is fighting back.
Every Tuesday morning since 2009, Karen Griffin has hopped on a Skype video call with a close friend in Italy. She’s also used Skype to make phone calls to her son who lived overseas and for ...
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Microsoft turns 50
The success of Windows and Office has allowed Microsoft to launch devices ... anniversary and Copilot event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The April 4th event will take ...
Brad Smith’s vision for the PNW: Microsoft’s ‘Tomorrowland’ everywhere
Microsoft President Brad Smith imagines the Northwest with more than a million new homes, high-speed rail and no new taxes.
Washington’s proposed statewide payroll tax sparks backlash from tech industry and local leaders
The much-anticipated and hotly-contested GeekWire Awards celebrate the top innovators, entrepreneurs and technology leaders ...
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Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune
As teenagers, they haunted the University of Washington's computer ... into its Bing search engine. Microsoft is also increasingly outfitting Windows and Office products with Copilot, its in-house AI ...
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Microsoft: New Windows scheduled task will launch Office apps faster
In May, Microsoft plans to roll out a new Windows scheduled task that launches automatically to help Microsoft Office apps load faster. The company says the "Startup Boost" task will launch in ...