GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveils Copilot + PCs, a linchpin of the companys plan to reinvent Windows, during a special event in Redmond in May 2024. Microsoft is betting Windows on AI, looking to breathe new life into one of the most successful products in tech history. Yet the sheer footprint of Windows continues to set it apart.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

From Windows 1.0 to Windows 10 The PC revolution started off life 35 years ago this week. Microsoft launched its first version of Windows on November 20th, 1985, to succeed MS-DOS. It was a huge milestone that paved the way for the modern versions of Windows we use today. At the time, many complained that Windows 1.0

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2020

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” back in 2001. Microsoft is even shipping a full Linux kernel in a Windows 10 update that will release later this month, and it moved to the Chromium browser engine for Edge last year.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2025

The IBM partnership didnt end well, I pointed out, alluding to the bitter split over OS/2, which saw Microsoft pivot to Windows in the late 1980s while IBM struggled to gain traction in the PC market. Steve Ballmer with former Microsoft Windows NT leader David Cutler, right, at a 2018 Clippers game. I made a bunch of trips to Taiwan.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Pluton is meant to improve the security of Windows systems in two key ways: First, by moving the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) from a separate chip into the central processing unit (CPU) itself. Second, by enabling Pluton for Windows computers to integrate with the Windows Update process for security firmware updates.

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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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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

A view of a skybridge — with windows that actually slide open — that looks west toward Puget Sound at Expedia’s Seattle campus. From 2001 until he left in 2017 to become Uber’s CEO, former Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi led the travel platform through a time of astounding growth. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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