GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2025

LinkedIn) — Rehan Sheikh , Microsoft’s vice president of silicon manufacturing, has left the company for rival Google. In his role at Microsoft, Sheikh helped lead the development of Maia 100 , Microsoft’s first in-house processor chip, and its Cobalt 100 processor. Todd Persen, co-founder of Era Software.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2025

GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) It was a typical drizzly and grey morning in Seattle as hundreds of software developers gathered for a startup conference to share best practices and learn about new AI tools. Stastig CEO Vijaye Raji (left) and Acquired podcast co-host Ben Gilbert speak on stage at the Seattle Startup Summit on Friday.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Despite the warnings from Microsoft of the dangers in continuing use past April, it is projected that the global XP installed base will hover around 20% when Microsoft pulls the plug. This would expose a large number of companies to serious security threats and software compatibility issues.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Stratvert is a former Microsoft program manager who left the company to focus full-time on his work as a YouTube creator, producing how-to videos about software and services from Microsoft and others. First Look at Windows 11 – impressions from an ex-Microsoft PM.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Microsoft is improving the dark mode in Word to make it even darker. The software maker has started testing an update to Word that will color entire documents in a dark canvas. Image: Microsoft. Currently, Word has a dark mode that modifies the ribbon and toolbars, but the canvas stays bright white.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Executive Director CyberSkills Management. Software Engineering Institute. Deputy Program Manager. Office of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment. Program Manager, Office of Smart Collection. Director and General Manager. Microsoft Institute. Microsoft Corporation.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2014

Matt Carroll – General Manager, 42Six, a CSC Company. Marshall – Deputy Program Manager, NSG Program Management Office, IT Service Directorate, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Sudhanshu Arora – Software Engineer, Cloudera. 11:00 AM Government Panel. Noon Morning Wrap Up.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2024

Berlinberg led program management, business intelligence, and more for Prime Air, the drone delivery division of Amazon. ” Berlinberg previously was a director at Manhattan Creative Group and a product manager at Coca-Cola. “After 25+ years at Microsoft, it’s invigorating to be starting something new!”

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Microsoft surprised everyone with its new Windows Package Manager (winget) last week, but it looks like the company copied the core mechanics from a developer it interviewed and ghosted. AppGet is a free and open source package manager for Windows, which automates installing software on Windows PCs.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Microsoft says it was able to mitigate a 2.4Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack in August. The attack targeted an Azure customer in Europe, and was 140 percent higher than the highest attack bandwidth volume Microsoft recorded in 2020. Image: Microsoft. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2022

Image: Microsoft. Microsoft appears to be testing a new type of ad inside File Explorer on Windows 11. Microsoft MVP and Twitter user Florian Beaubois discovered an ad in the latest test build of Windows 11, prompting users to check out the Microsoft Editor. pic.twitter.com/rusnyrYyX2 — Florian (@flobo09) March 12, 2022.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Microsoft made another key hire for a new consumer technology group on Wedneday, adding former Facebook and Google product leader Amit Fulay as vice president of product. ” An excerpt from the job post: Our team is responsible for creating the NEW consumer offering of Microsoft Teams. Amit Fulay. ” “I have admired?the

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2024

SAP has won another convert to its Rise with SAP managed software offering. IBM said it would move to Rise in May 2022 while Microsoft gave a progress report on its own Rise migration in March that year. Deutsche Telekom intends to migrate systems used by its European operating companies to Rise over the next two years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

As expected, Microsoft claims its own staff gets significant value from the gen AI tools it has in market, like Copilot for Microsoft 365. Large Japanese advertising agency Dentsu, for instance, is very enthusiastic about Copilot for Microsoft 365, claiming staff save up to 30 minutes a day on tasks.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

The former Microsoft COO told GeekWire that the “timing was just really good for me.” He previously spent 11 years at Microsoft from 2005 to 2016, leading the company’s global sales and marketing teams. Magic AI co-founder Alexa Anthony has joined Seattle startup ThruWave as business operations manager. Kevin Turner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Behind every successful IT project, you’ll find a highly skilled project manager. From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Program Management Professional (PgMP).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. Tier I vendors include Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, and Infor. ERP definition. ERP vendors.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles. She also spent four years at Microsoft as a senior marketing manager for Xbox.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Panos Panay, the Microsoft chief product officer overseeing the Windows and Devices division, introduces Windows Copilot at Microsoft Build in May. Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft) Panos Panay , the Microsoft chief product officer who oversees the Windows and Devices division, is leaving the company in a surprise departure. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2022

. — Miguel de Icaza , who joined Microsoft after the tech giant acquired Xamarin in 2016, is leaving the company, according to a report from ZDNet. de Icaza, known as a leader in open source software development, was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft. Xamarin co-founder and CEO Nat Friedman left in November.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

The shelf also had little Easter eggs hidden away, including an 8-inch floppy disc, an original Microsoft cap, the GitHub Octocat mascot, and even a Gold Master CD-ROM that Microsoft used to use for shipping final software to PC makers. link] pic.twitter.com/M1ZfVvpKr8 — Damien Guard (@damienguard) May 19, 2020.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Its software is used by tech companies such as Compass, Intuit, Indeed, Ford and others that need help interviewing engineers. Peter Petesch , a longtime Microsoft engineering leader, departed after more than 32 years at the Redmond tech giant. He spent the past 11 years as a principal program manager lead for Microsoft Azure.

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2024

The 9-month accelerator, based at the University of Washington, is unique because it does not take equity from companies and relies on funding from founding members such as the UW and Microsoft. It also enforces objective-based milestones and checkpoints; if a company is not meeting certain standards, they are booted out.

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2020

” A program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum, Brown calls the job a dream come true. Brown works on Microsoft’s Quantum Development Kit (QDK), which was released in 2017 and intended to empower developers to create quantum applications. I’m a program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Quantum.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

LinkedIn Photos) Tomlinson was at Microsoft for more than 22 years ending in 2016, leaving the role of vice president of security for the company’s cloud and enterprise division. Jacob Laes , a program manager at Techstars, is YoungTech’s CEO and founder. Oleria advisors Oliver Newbury, left, and Matt Thomlinson.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Former Microsoft Corporate Vice President Marc Brown joined EQT as a partner and global head of EQT Growth, a new strategic initiative focused on technology. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. tech giant.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

After graduating in June, Sestak’s internship became a full-time job at Costco as a software developer. The school, located near the headquarters for Amazon and Microsoft, draws from the tech giants for its educators and student advisors. After 13 years with the company, Wang left Microsoft and TEALS. It changed my life.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Microsoft’s lineage runs deep. Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Stephanie White, director and head of product, technology, and professional at fintech recruiting company EC1, says that salaries for high-level product management professionals roughly match their tech peers. Trisha Price, CPO at software development company Pendo, had a similar take.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Microsoft surprised Windows users with a new package manager yesterday. Most power users and even developers have ignored the Windows Store in favor of package managers like Chocolatey. Some of the apps already on Windows Package Manager. Else they manually download apps from the web.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And, based on your current program management practices, provide the same level of rigor — or more — for your AI adoption initiatives.” These are areas leaders will have to worry about as the software becomes more prevalent, Prasad says. McIntosh recommends seeking out third-party resources and subject matter expertise. “It

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Microsoft is launching a preview version of its antivirus software for Android today. The software giant revealed that Windows Defender was making its way to both iOS and Android earlier this year , but didn’t fully detail what to expect. Microsoft’s antivirus software for Android.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Los Angeles-based e-commerce software company Assembly announced today that it acquired Pacvue , a Seattle startup that sells similar B2B e-commerce tools. Pacvue was also one of the first software platforms to integrate with the Amazon Advertising API, and similar APIs from Walmart, Instacart, and others. Pacvue Photos).

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

Manny Vellon was a software engineer and Seattle startup founder legendary among colleagues and customers for his ability to find straightforward solutions to complex problems. His technology career spanned four decades, from early Microsoft programming languages to modern Internet of Things devices. Photo courtesy Barry Crist).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft Photo). “Eventually” Gates wrote, “our software should be so fundamentally secure that customers never even worry about it.”

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

-based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Keiser was most recently COO of CRM software company Zendesk. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Arvin Patel.

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