Articles about Microsoft

Built In Staff, With AI

Updated on April 24, 2024

These models have capabilities comparable to LLMs but are trained on smaller amounts of data.

Ashley Bowden

Updated on January 08, 2024

The software giant is changing up its standard keyboard layout after three decades.

Built In Staff, With AI

Updated on November 08, 2023

The company aims to modernize industrial systems for manufacturing, reliability and process optimization.

Built In Staff, With AI

Updated on August 24, 2023

The new terms will let Ubisoft offer Activision Blizzard’s games to cloud gaming services running non-Windows operating systems.

Ashley Bowden

Updated on July 24, 2023

Catch up on the latest tech developments on the Puget Sound.

Ashley Bowden

Updated on January 24, 2023

Find out which names in tech are growing by adding new companies and capabilities to their businesses.

Ashley Bowden

Updated on October 18, 2022

The two tech giants are bringing solutions for work and recreation to the metaverse.

Abel Rodriguez

Updated on July 14, 2022

The ad-supported offering will be Netflix’s least expensive plan.

Abel Rodriguez

Updated on June 15, 2022

Miburo researches foreign hackers and investigates how they conduct cyberattacks.

Abel Rodriguez

Updated on April 06, 2022

The partnerships will help Boeing make key technological advances.

Jeff Rumage

Updated on January 18, 2022

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will continue to serve in his role until the deal closes next year.

Jeff Rumage

Updated on December 21, 2021

Microsoft and Xandr aim to accelerate the delivery of digital advertising solutions for the open web.

The acquisition will help bolster Microsoft’s expansion into tech solutions for healthcare.

The model is learning new tricks everywhere from recommender systems to Minecraft.

Microsoft will invest $45 million into an Urban Housing Ventures initiative, and $25 million into a Washington State Housing Finance Commission program — both aimed to make affordable housing more available.

ZeniMax Media is the parent company of game developer and publisher Bethesda. It is responsible for several big-name video game franchises.

“Microsoft appreciates ... President Trump’s personal involvement,” the company wrote in a blog post.

NBA games will be filled with the faces and cheers of real fans thanks to this new partnership.

With this initiative, Microsoft is providing free training content across LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and GitHub Learning Lab.

This week, the company detailed numerous multi-million-dollar initiatives to support Black-owned business and communities of color.

Homomorphic encryption could let voters check how their ballots were counted. It might also change data privacy forever.

CovidSafe promises to alert people about potential exposure to the novel coronavirus without jeopardizing their privacy. An Android demo version of the app is already available, with an Apple iOS to follow in the coming days.

Microsoft aims to arm more organizations with usable and secure data so they can help solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges, like the COVID-19 pandemic or climate change.

The tech giant will be welcoming more than 4,000 students for its all-digital internship program this summer.

We’ve arranged 25 Seattle tech companies to fill your Instagram feed with a mix of stunning visuals, quirky products and the working lives of Puget Sound techies.

Seattle tech is leading the way in helping new parents keep their jobs and spend time with their newborn. Here are six of the best paid parental leave policies in the Seattle tech industry (and one non-tech company we simply had to include).

In the third-largest deal in Microsoft history, the Redmond behemoth confirmed last week that it had agreed to acquire popular open source code-hosting service GitHub. At $7.5 billion, only its 2011 acquisition of Skype and 2016 deal to land LinkedIn have been bigger.

Tech employees get the day off for election day, the Built In Seattle voter guide, Paul Allen saving coral reefs from beyond the grave and more.

We’ve compiled a list of 50 of the most influential individuals and organizations in the Seattle tech scene, from the big players and up-and-comers to insightful observers. They all tweet regularly, and offer unique vantage points on the industry.