The Lumia 950, and its larger sibling, the Lumia 950XL, have just received a software update, taking them from Windows 10 Mobile build 10586.0 to build 10586.29. This is a minor update to fix some bugs and improve some upgrade scenarios (and it's the update that will form the basis of our review of the operating system) but the content of the update itself...
Microsoft updates Windows on phones without carriers screwing it up
This week: Join us for GeekWire Radio with Microsoft Surface exec Panos Panay
GeekWire is on the road again this week. We’ll be recording our weekly radio show and podcast on Thursday afternoon at the Microsoft Store at Bellevue Square, with special guest Panos Panay, the corporate vice president in charge of Surface Computing and other major hardware initiatives at Microsoft. This week’s GeekWire podcast is sponsored by the Microsoft Store. Check...
Microsoft, UW participate in ‘Hour of Code’ events to get students interested in computer science
Computer science is taking over classrooms all across the world this week thanks to a Seattle-based...
Microsoft Surface falters during Monday Night Football as teams revert to pen and paper
Microsoft had another Surface-related hiccup during an NFL game on national television Monday evening. During the first half of the Cowboys vs. Redskins matchup, the Surface tablets that players and coaches use on the sidelines suffered a malfunction that rendered the devices useless. ESPN commentator Mike Tirico said it was related to a power issue, forcing teams to...
Halo on the Microsoft HoloLens runs fast and looks awesome
HoloLens project manager Varun Mani uploaded a video of himself playing Halo with the augmented reality device this past week. The short video shows Mani playing Halo on the TV, and then pausing the game and turning around to see the same screen suspended behind him through the HoloLens. The footage streaming from the Xbox One looks pretty crisp....
Encoding data in DNA for millennia? UW and Microsoft Research are on it
Data storage is getting better and better, but the final frontier for the long-term preservation of digital bits may well be DNA molecules – and the University of Washington and Microsoft Research are trying to make it so. The work on DNA data storage architecture is one of the angles in today’s New York Times story on the...
GeekWire Radio: Here’s our show from the Microsoft Store, and a chance to win an Xbox One
This week’s GeekWire podcast is sponsored by the Microsoft Store. Check out their 12 Days of Deals. We had a great time last night recording our weekly GeekWire radio show and podcast in front of a live...
Microsoft agrees to create Antitrust Compliance Office after shareholder sues over $732M fine
Microsoft executives have settled a year-long legal battle with a shareholder who wanted answers after a software glitch in 2011 caused the company to be fined $ 732 million for a defying antitrust laws in Europe. Kim Barovic sued Microsoft’s board members last year, arguing they failed to fulfill their fiduciary duties when they let a “technical error” cause Windows to only...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Windows Phone apps: ‘Give us time’ for unified platform to work
“That won’t work.” That’s what former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said while listening to current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describe the company’s strategy for getting more apps onto Windows Phone. Ballmer, who is still the company’s largest individual shareholder, made the comment to Bloomberg reporter Dina Bass in...
Steve Ballmer criticizes Microsoft cloud disclosures and app plan from cheap seats at annual meeting
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dealt with his fair share of grumbling from investors during his 14 years at the helm, but now the tables have turned. While his successor, Satya Nadella, was busy fielding questions from investors during the company’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday, Ballmer was in the audience speaking critically of one of...