GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

(Microsoft Image) OK, now what? I wasn’t sure we’d ever get here, but 21 months later , Microsoft has successfully fended off the FTC, pacified the CMA, and completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. It’s not a question of whether Microsoft will earn back that $69 billion, but when.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Last week, Microsoft announced that mobile and tablet versions of its Office applications would be free. Most companies and enterprises spend a good deal of money yearly on user computing devices and Microsoft licenses. Now let''s say a number of those users are mobile, say the sales team.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end up running the company for over a decade.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Here’s a look at what’s coming in 2023 for gaming companies, including giants based in the Pacific Northwest such as Microsoft, Amazon, Valve, Nintendo, and the now Sony-owned Bungie. If it goes through, Microsoft would dislodge Sony from its position as the No. Microsoft Image).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 5, 2020

(Microsoft Photo). Samsung and Microsoft are cozying up even more. The two tech giants on Wednesday unveiled deeper integrations between their services and products, including the ability to use mobile apps on Windows 10 and xCloud gaming-related features. Microsoft is also adding Outlook integration to Samsung Galaxy watches.

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GeekWire

JULY 11, 2023

(Call of Duty Image) Microsoft on Tuesday cleared a significant hurdle to its $68.7 If it does complete the acquisition, there’s a lot more work ahead for Microsoft, not only to complete the deal, but to make it a success. That subsequently led to a second QA union forming at Blizzard Albany in New York.

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GeekWire

JULY 11, 2023

The Microsoft co-founder and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair acknowledges the pitfalls of AI — including deep fakes, misinformation, perpetuation of bias, and cyberattacks — but points to historical precedent for adapting. It’s the new reality, and the only question is how we deal with it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Arm will operate as an division of Nvidia and will remain headquartered in the UK, and, will “continue to operate its open-licensing model, while maintaining its global customer neutrality,” the company said. The British company’s intellectual property helps power mobile device processors for companies including Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm.

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TM Forum

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2021, just six companies – Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple – generated nearly 57% of global network traffic, according to research by Sandvine, a network monitoring company. As Samir Marwaha, Sandvine’s Chief Strategy Officer, notes in a blog. figures from Reuters. billion euros ($59.4

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2020

Over the past decade, the leaders of Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T oversaw a shift from simplistic feature phones into the era of smartphones and streaming. If you “believe that mobile consumption is the future,” Smith says, “which clearly AT&T does, then you’re going to need a channel to deliver.”. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Wearables will become the most impactful mobile device - BYOW will replace BYOD as the primary concern of enterprise IT managers. 2015 PREDICTION TIME!! Rise of the "Cloud System Integrator" (a.k.a.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Krutnes met with environmental and cybersecurity leaders at Microsoft , spent time with students at the University of Washington, and visited Tacoma to discuss electric-powered ferries as part of a focus on green technology. Each spent time with a variety of business, government, and community leaders during their visits.

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The Verge

MARCH 2, 2022

Netflix has made an offer to acquire Next Games , the Finland-based developer behind mobile puzzle RPG Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales. Next Games has also developed a pair of Walking Dead-themed mobile games. The acquisition comes as Netflix is building a mobile gaming service into its regular subscription service.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Analysis: Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda is a massive disruption for the video game industry. Microsoft started its working week by announcing that it intends to purchase ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5 One of T-Mobile’s most important applications is one its customers rarely see.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2021

Oodle was recently licensed by Sony for use with the PlayStation 5 , in a specialized edition called Oodle Kraken that — to use RAD’s term — “ supercharges ” the PS5’s data loading. and made part of its business out of licensing Unreal ‘s engine to other studios.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements. Comments ().

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2023

A licensed general internist, Gensinger has expertise in clinical informatics and software design. He also held managerial roles at Microsoft, Nokia and Apple. He also was an architect at Microsoft. Gensinger was previously chief information officer for Hospitals Sisters Health System, a health group in Illinois and Wisconsin.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It will make money through licensing, royalties and other servicing fees. After that, he worked alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as an innovation and digital transformation consultant. The goal is to sell a white-labeled version of Odyssey to other consumer-facing brands, Sack told GeekWire.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2024

Jaisimha, who earned his PhD from the University of Washington in electrical and computer engineering, is a UW affiliate professor who worked at companies such as RealNetworks, Amazon, Microsoft and Medio. He founded and led the startup Appnique, which applies machine learning to mobile advertising campaigns.

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Linux Academy

MARCH 25, 2019

User Error — Faith in Microsoft : Discussing if we should cut Microsoft some slack, the pace of technological change, and what a couple of common terms actually mean. Autoplay: Currently supported on our IOS and Android mobile platforms, and will soon be coming to our desktop version. Just for Business Users.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Crucially, Arm doesn’t actually make its own chips: rather, it sells both licenses for companies to design their own chips that use Arm’s architecture (like Apple’s M-series chips for Macs), in addition to selling entire CPU and GPU designs (like the Cortex-X1 CPU and Mali GPUs found in the Google Tensor and Samsung Exynos 2100).

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Kitaboo

JANUARY 8, 2020

These are some of the recent, native Readium test apps on mobile platforms created to demonstrate the current Readium technology. A co-founder of the Readium Foundation, Bluefire helps all iOS and Android mobile apps to add ereader features to it. Anyone can also use the Readium source code without a commercial license.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

Google and Parallels aren’t discussing pricing or exact launch dates yet, but there will be a cost involved for Parallels itself and enterprises will obviously need Windows licenses to run these apps. Microsoft has its own take on Chrome OS. Both Google and Microsoft have similar security goals that will shape the future of Windows.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I spent some time with a colleague this week discussing how partners work with Microsoft, and it''s a conversation I''ve had in many shapes and forms for almost 15 years with many Microsoft partners in partner briefings, conferences, advisory boards, executive round tables, and other less formal venues (ie/eg, over beers).

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony have dominated the console landscape for decades. What if there was a fourth console, an indie success, a crowdfunding darling that took Kickstarter by storm, that could expand the world of mobile gaming to the big screen? Microsoft Lumia 950. Amazon hasn’t attempted a phone since. Just kidding.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2023

Plus, long-term evaluations have been used via public mobile networks, with corresponding SIM cards in other end devices. Here, we actually get a licensed frequency we don’t have to share with anyone, so there’s no interference,” he says. “And in Germany.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

Enterprise application vendors such as Oracle and SAP now have cloud infrastructure offerings that rival those of Google, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. How can IT teams manage multiple devices, keep them patched, and ensure they are compliant with vendor licenses and security policies? Is data traveling to countries where it shouldn’t?

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GeekWire

AUGUST 6, 2020

The startup makes money by licensing its platform to healthcare providers. ” Tech giants including Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft are also investing heavily in digital health products and services. McSherry was CEO at Swype and became Nuance’s VP of advertising and content and Sheedy its VP of mobile product.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Cloud gaming is shaping up to have a big moment on mobile starting next month with the launch of Microsoft’s xCloud service , but iOS users are getting left out. iOS users will miss out n the mobile-centric cloud gaming wave that’s set to arrive with xCloud. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. What does all this mean?

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I spent some time with a colleague this week discussing how partners work with Microsoft, and it's a conversation I've had in many shapes and forms for almost 15 years with many Microsoft partners in partner briefings, conferences, advisory boards, executive round tables, and other less formal venues (ie/eg, over beers).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Security Michael Tsai weighs in on the Microsoft signing key that was stolen, sharing several links with commentary on this matter. Fortunately, this Microsoft Security Response Center article not only shows how to use Azure Serial Console to compromise sensitive information, but also shows how to detect exploitation activity.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2021

The point of Hitt’s earlier testimony was that game developers “multi-home” games to PC and mobile. I am doing my b est to follow a confusing spreadsheet that includes games that Hitt has promised are on both PC and mobile phones. In the Microsoft store, a “ Words Story ” with the same art exists, but it’s not the same developer.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as the Internet's permanent overlords and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For instance, 75% of Microsoft’s commercial revenue is generated through its vast partner ecosystem; the company adds an average of 75,000 partners each month. Leverage our cloud-based digital publishing platform, which is available as a licensed version (one-time buy) as well as a subscription model.

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Galido

JANUARY 21, 2019

From now till Feb 20, 2019, every participant who completes the 1-min survey can get a licensed copy of MacX DVD Ripper Pro for free and will have a chance to win iPad Pro, Netflix gift card and other prizes. Win iPad Pro and more gifts, when you buy the latest version of MacX DVD Ripper Pro license. Want to try it? 264 video formats.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Microsoft, Google, Salesforce—all the major players are all in on AI, so it only makes sense to leverage that. But in February, Meta released Llama, an open-source LLM licensed for non-commercial use, which quickly became the base for many projects. Microsoft quickly pledged to support it on its Azure platform.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2020

The company has already announced Developer Transition Kits with an ARM processor inside to help app makers update and test their software — and it noted in the keynote that Microsoft is already working on Office, and Adobe is working on Creative Cloud. Microsoft only licenses the ARM version of Windows 10 to PC manufacturers.)

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