(CNN) — The Surface Laptop 4 is more of a good thing. Like the Surface Laptop 3 before it, Microsoft’s latest flagship laptop looks great, has a vibrant and uniquely tall screen, and delivers one of the best typing experiences in the business. And now it offers even better processors for powering long days … Read more
The Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The news: Microsoft is in “advanced talks” to acquire Nuance Communications for $ 16 billion, according to a Bloomberg report on Sunday. Nuance background: The publicly traded Boston-area company specializes in “conversational AI” for applications in healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, financial services and more. Nuance … Read more
Microsoft released the first 64-bit version of Windows in the early hours of the morning. In 2007 it came out with OneDrive. Despite this history, the Windows version of the file sync app is only now making the leap to 64-bit, with Microsoft announcing a new client preview. In an announcement from Windows guru Paul … Read more
Anuj Gosalia. (Magic Leap photo) – Magic Leap continues to hire in the Seattle area. Anuj Gosalia, a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, joined the company as Chief Software and Cloud Officer. This is the third recent hiring of executives from the Seattle area by the augmented reality company based in Plantation, Florida. Gosalia … Read more
A rendering of the Ever Given container ship, which is stuck in the Suez Canal, is shown in a “Microsoft Flight Simulator” video released on TikTok. (TikTok screenshot via @donut_enforcement) Nothing like a couple of current events prying into your video game. The saga of a container ship that has been stuck in the Suez … Read more
(Discord image) Game-focused VoIP app Discord has reportedly made its way into the market and it’s possible Microsoft is the buyer. VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi reported Monday that Discord is in final negotiating a sale with an unspecified buyer and is in “active talks” with a few others. The purchase price could be well north of … Read more
Microsoft will switch to a four-week release cycle for stable builds of Edge later this year. It is planned to move to this schedule starting with Edge 94, which is due to arrive in September. Earlier this month, Google announced that Chrome would switch to Chrome 94 (which should drop in the third quarter) in … Read more
Last year’s hit sequel, Doom Eternal, is one of many games that are now owned by Microsoft. (Bethesda picture) Microsoft plans to make 20 games from its new subsidiary Bethesda Softworks available on its subscription service Xbox Game Pass starting Friday morning. The news follows Microsoft’s successful acquisition of ZeniMax Media, the Maryland-based holding company … Read more
The January 6 rupture and riots in the U.S. Capitol and greater efforts to scrap the election results have drawn new attention to the greater need for political reform – the fixing of flaws in the democratic system, to use an offered metaphor by Jon DeVaan, former Microsoft technical director. Jon DeVaan, Former Microsoft Technician … Read more
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. (GeekWire file photo) Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former Windows President Steven Sinofsky met for a surprising conversation on Thursday evening when they appeared together in the conversation app Clubhouse by invitation only. The two tech leaders, who weren’t exactly the friendliest breakup, joked and remembered as guests “The … Read more