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Microsoft’s Windows 10 passes Windows 8 in one huge benchmark
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Windows 10 is still trailing behind Windows 8 when it comes to overall market share, but Microsoft announced last night that the platform has taken off for gamers. In November, players spent more hours gaming on Windows 10 than Windows 8 and 8.1 combined. RELATED CONTENT: Xbox Live’s Major Nelson on this week’s GeekWire radio show...
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Why people in China love Microsoft’s Xiaoice virtual companion, and what it says about artificial intelligence
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Microsoft Research Asia Managing Director Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon.
Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon is speaking quickly inside a Beijing boardroom, excited about the conversation topic. He’s rattling off statistics and talking about Xiaoice, a new personal assistant built by Microsoft that is already being used by 40 million smartphone owners across China and Japan. Hon explains how Xiaoice is similar to digital assistants like...
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How Microsoft’s fitness tracker, cloud technology was used at the Squash World Championships
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Sports and Microsoft’s technology met this weekend at the 2015 Men’s World Squash Championship in Bellevue, Wash. The world’s top 50 male squash players spent the past week competing against each other at the annual tournament, which was held in the U.S. for the first time ever and just a few minutes away from Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond. Microsoft implemented some...
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A closer look at Microsoft’s U.S. diversity: 46% white males, 481 fewer women than 2014
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Microsoft made headlines on Monday afternoon with updated workforce statistics, but a federal report the company quietly published at the same time sheds even more light on the diversity within its ranks. The data shows that 45.9 percent of the company’s U.S. workers are white males, down slightly from 46.5 percent last year. It also shows that of the highest ranking...
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Three decades of Windows: The quirks and success of Microsoft’s most lasting achievement
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Thirty years ago today, Microsoft joined a competitive race with the introduction of Windows 1.0. Apple had already introduced its Mac OS and Microsoft was a year and a half late in shipping their response. But Windows quickly caught up. And today, more than 1 billion machines are capable of running the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship OS. Here's to the next...
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