[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.] REDMOND, Wash. — You’ve probably seen ...

Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license. “Our ...

Featured in the first wave of interviews in the Microsoft Alumni Network‘s new “Alumni Voices” oral history project are (clockwise from upper left): Bill Neukom, former Microsoft general counsel; ...

Over half a century, the company has introduced technologies including the Windows operating system, the Azure cloud, video games, and now artificial intelligence. On April 4, 1975, two childhood ...

Sure, Microsoft might be riding high these days on the back of generative AI, but it wasn't always so successful. Remember Windows Vista? The antitrust fight with the US government? Windows Phone?

Over 500 million people have played Microsoft Solitaire since its 1990 release as an included game in the Windows 3.0 operating system. In 2019, it was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, ...