GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2020

The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in Redmond, Wash. next year, just three miles away from Microsoft’s headquarters. Amazon Photo).

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 26, 2024

Microsoft is reuniting management of its Windows operating system and its Surface devices, as the leader of its Windows and Web Experiences team has quit his current role and may leave the company. To read this article in full, please click here

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GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky (left) and his wife Laura Selipsky. Seattle Sounders FC announced Wednesday that the families of Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and Redapt CEO Rick Cantu are now owners. They join several other tech execs, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who became owners in 2019.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky during a rehearsal session with his professional dance partner Lauren Smith. But a group of notable personalities in the city, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky , will do their best to use dance to raise money to help combat the issue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). It is really key for Microsoft to try to limit both economic and reputational damage from a possible investigation.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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TM Forum

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Telcos often view hyperscale cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft as competition, complaining that the digital natives have a distinct advantage because they aren’t hamstrung by regulation. But these companies are also potential partners, and they could help telcos crack the enterprise 5G market.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Jassy showed stats that put AWS’s share of the cloud infrastructure market at 45%, more than double its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure. Screenshot via webcast). A recent U.S.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by the now-future Amazon CEO , closed out 2020 with more than $13.5 billion in annual operating profits, responsible for more than 63% of the entire company’s operating profits for the year, on annual AWS revenue of $45.3 Microsoft, the No. billion, up 28%.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer impact and growth in the years ahead,” according to an internal memo Monday morning. See full text below.)

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2020

Zoom blew past expectations for its first quarter earnings as the video conferencing company added millions of new users amid the global pandemic. Shares have surged more than 200% since the pandemic began as more people rely on the company’s software to work and socialize due to shelter-in-place orders. (Zoom Image).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Panos Panay was the longtime leader of Microsoft’s hardware and devices business, whose responsibilities were expanded to include oversight of the Windows and Devices division. Microsoft announced Panay’s surprise departure earlier Monday morning. The news comes during a pivotal week for both companies. billion.

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

(Amazon Image) Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q , the AI assistant unveiled by Amazon Web Services last fall. The announcement is part of a new trend of the company announcing new AI features just prior to its quarterly earnings report.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure. where Microsoft is based, which speaks in part to fierce nature of the longtime rivalry between the companies.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably the world’s edgiest edge: a satellite in low Earth orbit. Axiom Space is also partnering with Microsoft Azure and LEOCloud on a separate project to put cloud infrastructure in orbit.).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Reporting from Las Vegas … Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky doubled down on the new era of artificial intelligence with a series of product announcements and thinly veiled but repeated criticism of Microsoft and OpenAI. AWS CEO introduces “Amazon Q” at re:Invent 2023.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

“AI projects are not just about AI meters, they have lots of other cloud meters as well,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, citing the impact of AI on the Azure cloud platform. Global spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $68 billion in the third quarter, up 18% year-over-year. storage and computing).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft describes the Azure Maia AI Accelerator as the first designed by Microsoft for large language model training and inferencing in the Microsoft Cloud. One of the Microsoft-designed chips, the Azure Maia AI Accelerator, is optimized for AI tasks, including generative artificial intelligence.

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) — Microsoft executive Charlie Bell joined the board of directors of customer engagement software giant Twilio. Bell is executive VP of security, compliance identity and management at Microsoft, and is a member of the company’s senior leadership team.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Financial Times reported Wednesday that Microsoft has held talks in recent months to acquire Pinterest. The talks, which are “currently not active,” could have led to Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, given Pinterest is valued upwards of $51 billion. Microsoft Azure trails AWS and Google Cloud is in third.

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GeekWire

MARCH 27, 2023

Microsoft said previously that it would complete its planned 10,000 global layoffs by the end of March. are part of the 10,000 global layoffs announced by Microsoft on Jan. Microsoft is approaching its own deadline for making the 10,000 overall layoffs. The latest cuts, in Redmond and Bellevue, Wash.,

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The surprise removal of the OpenAI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Selipsky oversaw the company’s acquisition by Salesforce for $15.7

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Microsoft says it was able to mitigate a 2.4Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack in August. The attack targeted an Azure customer in Europe, and was 140 percent higher than the highest attack bandwidth volume Microsoft recorded in 2020. Image: Microsoft. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic , the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded two years ago by former OpenAI executives and considered one of the world’s top AI labs. Amazon’s investment in Anthropic echoes Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Ali Spain, the Microsoft Alumni Network’s outgoing executive director, opens the Connect 2023 conference in Redmond on Thursday morning. Microsoft will turn 50 in less than two years, and attendees spanned many of the company’s decades. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert at the Microsoft Alumni Network conference.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2021

which has its corporate headquarters in Chicago, is reportedly at the center of a bidding war between Amazon, Microsoft and Google for a cloud computing contract. Microsoft and Amazon are already involved in a high-stakes competition for the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract. The Boeing Co., Boeing Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). This move comes as the company seeks to streamline its operations and focus on areas that deliver a better return on investment. Amazon Web Services, Technology Industry

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

A new startup out of Seattle called Cloudshim just raised $120,000 to help grow the company’s self-serve cloud management platform. ” The software currently supports Amazon Web Services users but will soon expand to Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. . The company employs nine people.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) OpenAI’s announcement last night that Sam Altman will return as CEO, under a newly formulated board, brings an apparent end to a wild ride that spotlighted OpenAI’s unusual corporate structure, and demonstrated Microsoft’s tenuous control over the situation despite its giant stake in the company.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Pablo Castro, distinguished engineer on Microsoft Azure’s AI team, demonstrates the Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft has a solution. The tech giant says it will soon make the generative AI chat technology available as part of its Azure OpenAI Service , which was made generally available on Monday.

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2023

He worked in various roles at Microsoft, where he helped build the SQL server, incubated multiple Azure platform services, and integrated third-party services onto the cloud. Bill Cox , a longtime Microsoft business leader , joined Lyra Health as its vice president of product marketing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

GeekWire File Photo Microsoft’s revenue rose 2% to $52.7 billion, not counting a special charge related to its layoffs — providing a glimpse of the growing economic uncertainty that the company cited in announcing the cutbacks last week. GeekWire File Photo Microsoft’s revenue rose 2% to $52.7 billion to $51.5

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft announced a scholarship program for U.S. The company says it will offer free curriculum to all of the nation’s public community colleges, training for faculty at 150 community colleges, and scholarships and other resources for 25,000 students. GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong).

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., Last year, Phillips joined Stripe after leaving Microsoft but departed one month later.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, with Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison, announcing their recent partnership. Microsoft Photo / Dan DeLong) “All partnerships are tactical. ” That’s one of the lessons that business and technology leader Bob Muglia tells the companies he works with these days.

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