TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Windows XP was a major step forward for Microsoft, merging the stability of its Windows NT line with the consumer-friendly interface of Windows 98, making it suitable.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Microsoft’s original Xbox console source code has leaked online, alongside code for a version of Windows NT 3.5. The Xbox source code includes the kernel for the operating system on the original console, a custom version of Windows 2000. Alongside the Xbox leak, source code for a near-final version of Windows NT 3.5

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Microsoft Image. Editor’s Note: Christopher Budd worked previously in Microsoft’s Security Response Center for 10 years.]. Pluton is the new chip initiative that Microsoft announced with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm. This mobilization of industry giants is reminiscent of Microsoft at the height of its power.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

“Bliss,” the Microsoft Windows XP desktop wallpaper image, as seen in a YouTube video tutorial. Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as the default desktop wallpaper image for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, the search for “Bliss” is still an intriguing one.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The latest ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft features the Windows XP “Bliss” desktop image. Microsoft Photo) The hills are alive on this year’s ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft. This year, Windows sweater sales are supporting the environmental organization The Nature Conservancy.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2025

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the 2021 groundbreaking for the Intuit Dome, the new home of the L.A. Clippers / Intuit Dome Photo) [Editors Note: Microsoft@50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. He was at Microsoft for almost 34 years.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Today, Microsoft dukes it out with the FAANG stocks for top place in the tech stock market. But 20 years ago, Microsoft let out a big sigh of relief when it dodged a bullet. Microsoft, had ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a monopoly that should be broken up into two companies.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Microsoft’s next version of Windows, Windows 11, is coming October 5th. In many ways, it’s already here — the free update has been available for Windows Insiders to download and test for months, and recent versions like the Release Preview will likely be indistinguishable from the final operating system. Sean Hollister.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft kicked off its virtual Ignite conference today with a look back at how Microsoft Flight Simulator has changed since its introduction in 1982. The nearly 40-year history shows just how much PC gaming has changed, to the point where Microsoft Flight Simulator can now accurately ( most of the time! ) Image: Microsoft.

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SPF13

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Apple is known for fixed release windows, but flexible feature sets. Microsoft is known for failing prey to the magic triangle, often compromising all three. Cairo (eventually shipped as Windows 95): Announced in 1991 to distract from the lack of anything dramatically new in Windows 3.0. Windows 95. incompleteâ??,

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

[ Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. It was a “major, major moment in this whole AI journey,” said Peter Lee, the Microsoft Research president. At Microsoft, it was a moment decades in the making.

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2023

Arkane Studios’ Redfall was scheduled to release on Xbox, Windows, and the Xbox Game Pass Monday evening. Initially announced at Microsoft’s all-virtual E3 show in 2021 , Redfall is a first-person shooter for 1 to 4 players that puts you up against the vampires who’ve taken over a small town in Massachusetts.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Early Monday morning, Microsoft and 343 Industries released a new six-minute trailer to show off the story of Halo Infinite, its forthcoming first-person shooter set to debut in December. Infinite, by comparison, is closer in spirit to the original 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved. This is meant by Microsoft to be a “new era of Halo.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Ed Fries, one of the original team members at Microsoft that co-created the Xbox, shared a bevy of behind-the-scenes stories from his time at the tech giant as part of a celebration of the Xbox project’s 20th anniversary. This was a present from the team when I retired from running Microsoft Game Studios in 2004.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The highly-anticipated game will debut next fall, Microsoft-owned developer 343 Industries announced Tuesday. Halo Infinite was originally scheduled to release last month alongside the debut of Microsoft’s new console, the Xbox Series X. Microsoft showed off the game in July month as part of a preview. (Halo Infinite Image).

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GeekWire

MAY 3, 2021

On the legal team for Epic Games is Christine Varney , the lawyer who represented Netscape in its antitrust suit against Microsoft in 2001. The Microsoft case ended with an initial judgment to break up the Redmond-based software giant, a decision which later was walked back under a 2002 settlement agreement.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft is banking on it to be the next big “killer app” for the Xbox platform. It’s also in an interesting position where it’s both an important release for Microsoft and a potential participant in a major setback for the company. Expect to hear a lot about the upcoming science-fiction action-RPG Starfield in 2023.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2021

Founded in 2001, Slalom currently has more than 9,500 employees globally. Collectors Universe, a third party authentication service for collectibles, appointed Microsoft veteran Ryan Hoge as its first-ever chief product officer. Hoge spent 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as group program manager for the Windows 11 user experience.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

Please note: it’s not the interface itself (Microsoft wouldn’t abandon tiles like that), but it is a recognizable part of it. A simpler, more green time, when consoles were consoles and not Metro-inspired (or I guess Fluent Design-inspired ) pseudo-Windows machines.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Microsoft flinched first, and now we know how much the next generation of console gaming will cost. There’s a likely reason both Sony and Microsoft have been leading us along for well over a year (Sony confirmed the PlayStation 5 in October 2019, if you’ll recall ). Image: Microsoft. It’s about time to find out.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

This past week, Microsoft announced it’s releasing not one but two new consoles: the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S. Not only that, but Microsoft’s initial crop of first-party games will also be playable on its last generation Xbox, the Xbox One, as well as Windows PCs. Microsoft’s two new consoles. Image: Microsoft.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 27, 2010

By 2001 analysts were growing concerned that Microsoft’s revenue stream could falter, as the IT managers at large corporations began baulking at upgrading the software on all their PCs every time a new version of Microsoft Windows or Office was released. Rework your product versioning. Build evolutionary business models.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Bluetooth has been around since 1994 as a wireless connectivity specification, but the first mobile phones did not appear with basic Bluetooth services until 2001. In fact, through the years, a wide variety of security patches have been published for Microsoft Windows as well as for Apple macOS and iPhones.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 20, 2023

CodeRed: A worm that first appeared in 2001 and infected tens of thousands of servers running Microsoft’s IIS web server software. Here are five examples of famous computer worms: CodeRed:  A worm that was first discovered in 2001 and infected tens of thousands of servers running Microsoft’s IIS web server software.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 20, 2023

CodeRed: A worm that first appeared in 2001 and infected tens of thousands of servers running Microsoft’s IIS web server software. Here are five examples of famous computer worms: CodeRed:  A worm that was first discovered in 2001 and infected tens of thousands of servers running Microsoft’s IIS web server software.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Clippy is back inside Microsoft Teams. Image: Microsoft. Microsoft is bringing Clippy back to Microsoft Teams, after first resurrecting the annoying paperclip two years ago and then killing it off after a few days. explains Microsoft , confirming the return of Clippy to Microsoft Teams.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Crowds gather for an Xbox briefing in 2014, a pivotal era for the company’s games business, as documented in one of several case studies in the new book, The Insiders Guide to Innovation at Microsoft. Learn more and register here for our special Microsoft @ 50 event, March 20, 2025, in Seattle.]

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Microsoft’s celebration of the Xbox project’s 20th anniversary continued this week with the streaming debut of “Xbox Pioneers: Creativity & Innovation – Past, Present & Future,” a roundtable discussion between some of the early architects of the Xbox, recorded on Nov.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 30, 2022

Since the original Halo released in 2001, Microsoft has been trying for a long time to get Bungie and 343 Industries’ sci-fi shooter into live action beyond excellent commercials and webseries tie-ins. After several aborted attempts at making a movie, Halo is now finally a TV show for Paramount+ (with some speed bumps … Read more.

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2021

” They are also one of the first recipients of Microsoft Research’s Ada Lovelace Fellowships, established to support diverse talent getting doctorates in computing-related fields. Mac, Windows or Linux? First computer: If we’re talking first owned outright: a Windows ME-branded special edition Dell. Then I used it.

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Galido

MAY 10, 2016

Conficker Virus (2009)In 2009, a new computer worm crawled its way into millions of Windows-based PCs around the world, creating a massive botnet army of remotely controlled computers capable of stealing financial data and other information. That allowed the worm to deface and take down some websites.

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