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Microsoft's commitment to closing the rural broadband gap with a significant infrastructure boost. ‘Microsoft Airband Initiative’ plan to get broadband in rural areas.

SEATTLE (AP) — Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates before becoming a billionaire philanthropist who invested in conservation, space travel and professional sports, died Monday. He was 65. His death was announced by his company, Vulcan Inc...

Spokesman Mike Bastinelli says it's a tech support scam.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft will be able to buy its own, greener power on the open market under a plan approved by Washington state regulators. Under the agreement with Puget Sound Energy, the software giant will assume the costs and risks of buying its own power supply...

SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft is expanding its exploration of a new technological frontier that allows people to mix the real world with three-dimensional projections of life-like images. An update of Microsoft's Windows 10 software will include features for playing games and watching video in the realm of "mixed reality...

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department wants a judge to throw out a lawsuit from Microsoft and keep a law that prohibits technology companies from telling customers when the government demands their electronic data. Microsoft says its customers have a constitutional right to know when the government collects private information...

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge has allowed a class-action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination by Microsoft to proceed. U.S. District Judge James Robart of Seattle in an order Friday denied the company's request to dismiss key claims by women in the suit...

Reuters reports on Monday, Monsanto and Microsoft announced a partnership to invest in Ag technology startups in Brazil. Monsanto will join a Brazilian investment fund with up to 300 million reais ($92 million), managed by Microsoft, evaluating ideas for new digital tools to be applied to agricultural production in the country...

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft is cutting 1,850 jobs and will book a $950 million writedown as the company continues its attempts to salvage a rocky entrance into the smartphone market. The company acquired Nokia's phone business in 2014, seeking to capitalize on and the fast-growing industry, but by last summer it was slashing the value of that business and it eliminated 26,000 jobs...

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Prominent Washington businesses from Amazon to Microsoft say the Washington Supreme Court should uphold a decision ordering a Richland florist to stop discriminating against same-sex couples. The Tri-City Herald reports that 14 businesses, which also include REI, Expedia, Group Health and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, filed a 20-page court brief in the nation