The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Microsoft is reversing a decision to remove a key feature from its upcoming.NET 6 release, after a public outcry from the open source community. Microsoft admits it made a mistake. Microsoft has now reversed the change following a backlash, and anger inside the company from many of Microsoft’s own employees. “We

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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

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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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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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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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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Network World

JULY 18, 2024

According to DARPA, the QBI program will verify and validate approaches that enable revolutionary advances in design, engineering, testing, and evaluation in the domain of fault-tolerant quantum computing and explore computational workflows that include quantum compute steps.

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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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The current marketplace for ESG solutions is rapidly evolving with both large incumbents and emerging startups pushing tools to market, from standalone software offerings, to ERP add-ons, to full ESG platforms and niche solutions. That’s where the single source of truth comes into perspective and increases performance,” Karcher says.

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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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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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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

JUNE 29, 2021

Amazon said in a blog post that more than 800 new AWS jobs — including software developers, UX designers, and technical program managers — will be located at Redmond Town Center. The majority of that growth has been centered on Bellevue, Wash. where Amazon is leasing and building enough new space to locate 25,000 employees.

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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Microsoft’s Azure Quantum team has engineered devices such as this one to pave the way for creating topological qubits and scalable quantum computers. Microsoft is one of three companies selected to present design concepts as part of a five-year program known as Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing , or US2QC.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Fellow Seattle-area tech giant Microsoft earlier this month released new “hybrid workplace” guidance that will allow employees to work from home freely for less than 50% of their working week, and managers will be able to approve permanent remote work. An in-house pilot testing program for employees was confirmed in May.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2021

He also spent a year at Code.org as director of software engineering. Kelly Breslin Wright , a former longtime exec at Tableau Software, joined the board of Gong , a Silicon Valley AI sales startup. He will lead the startup’s product management and engineering, program management, and UX. billion valuation.

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2023

Last year’s winner was Highspot, a startup that sells enterprise software to help make salespeople more efficient. CEO background: Karl Siebrecht , former CEO of AdReady, was previously president of aQuantive’s Atlas technology division, and later became a Microsoft general manager. The company ranks No.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

-based social media management platform Hootsuite announced Tiziana Figliolia as its new CFO. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. Rupp previously held senior HR roles at Microsoft and Amazon, where she worked with Fabric CEO Faisal Masud.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

CEO Caitlin Morse was previously a program manager at Flex and is also a co-founder of a small medical device services startup, MorseCode Medical. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Microsoft’s big upcoming feature list for Windows 11 includes some important optimizations and improvements behind the scenes for PC games. Windows 11 shipped with the Auto HDR feature from the Xbox Series X / S consoles, and Microsoft is now making some optimizations for windowed games that will allow them to support Auto HDR and VRR.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Javier Sanchez, a group technical program manager at Akvelon, with his cat Mittens. Javier Sanchez , a technical program manager at Bellevue, Wash.-based It provides software engineering solutions to companies such as Microsoft, Reddit, DoorDash and more. Photo courtesy of Javier Sanchez).

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