Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Love it or hate it, Microsoft’s Active Directory remains one of the most-used identity services in the enterprise. Google’s Cloud Platform has long allowed you to manually set up an Active Directory deployment, but today, Google is taking this a step further by announcing the beta of a managed service. As the name implies, Google […]... →

Slack’s goal of integrating enterprise tools in the chat interface has been a major differentiator from the giant companies it’s competing with like Microsoft and Facebook. Last year, it bought Astro, specifically with the goal of integrating enterprise productivity tools inside Slack, and today it announced new integrations with Microsoft OneDrive and Outlook. Specifically, Slack […]... →

It’s been a long time since the original ten members of Meow Wolf’s art collective had to scrounge in dumpsters for the raw materials to bring their galaxy spanning visions to life. Now, with well over $18 million in financing behind them, the story of a troupe of misunderstood, hardscrabble artists trying to create something […]... →

Молодому изобретателю из Екатеринбурга Кириллу Точилкину было 16 лет, когда он впервые поучаствовал в конкурсе бизнес-проектов и неожиданно для себя выиграл. К тому моменту школьник самостоятельно выучил основы нескольких языков программирования и с их помощью создал свою систему «умного дома». Победа помогла Кириллу посетить штаб-квартиру Microsoft в США. Он рассказал Rusbase, сколько часов в день надо программировать, чтобы преуспеть, и в чем преимущество молодых бизнесменов.... →

Спустя почти 25 лет после вытеснения Netscape с рынка браузеров, Microsoft решила использовать технологию Chrome, а не пытаться с ней бороться. Это одновременно умный и шокирующий ход. С чего все началось и как развивались события?... →

The broadband divide in the U.S. is real, but if you want to know how real, don't ask the FCC. Its yearly broadband deployment report, already under fire for serious data problems, has now been further questioned by Microsoft, which says its own data contradicts coverage data provided by internet providers. Despite $22 billion in government spending, it says, "adoption has barely budged."... →

Microsoft today launched the first official version of its Edge browser with the Chromium engine for Windows 10. You can now download the first developer and canary builds here. The canary builds will get daily updates and the developer builds will see weekly updates. Over time, you’ll also be able to opt in to the […]... →

French startup OpenClassrooms is announcing a new partnership for a masters-level online program. Students who enroll in this program will access a fully online program about artificial intelligence. Eventually, future graduates will join companies — Microsoft will likely hire some of them. If you aren’t familiar with OpenClassrooms, the company first started with basic massive […]... →

Security breaches, where malicious hackers obtain snippets of information that then get used to impersonate individuals in order to gain access to individuals’ and businesses’ sensitive financial and other private information, have become par for the course in the world of digital services. More than 2.7 billion records were  breached in a single incident this year […]... →

Aqua Security, a startup that helps customers launch containers securely, announced a $62 million Series C investment today led by Insight Partners. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), TLV Partners and Shlomo Kramer also participated. With today’s investment, the startup’s investments since inception now total over $100 million, according to the company. […]... →

Car companies are making big investments in technology to help ensure that they are not cut out of the next generation of transportation and automotive manufacturing, and today came the latest development in that trend. The BMW Group and Microsoft announced they would team up in a new effort called the Open Manufacturing Platform, aimed […]... →

Tinder today announced it has hired Facebook vet Ravi Mehta as its new Chief Product Officer, as the company continues to shift Tinder’s focus to the younger demographic still enjoying the “single lifestyle.” Mehta’s background includes over 20 years in the industry, including time at Facebook, TripAdvisor, and Microsoft. Most recently, Mehta had served as […]... →

A quiet little update from Microsoft overnight, as the company bumped up a key spec on its 13.5-inch Surface Book 2. The 2017 two-in-one powerhouse is getting a nice little boost to Intel’s 8th gen quad-core i5 chip. That model run $1,499 and includes 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM. Bumping up to the […]... →

Alibaba has made an acquisition as it continues to square up to the opportunity in enterprise services in China and beyond, akin to what its US counterpart Amazon has done with AWS. TechCrunch has confirmed that the e-commerce and cloud services giant has acquired Teambition, a Microsoft- and Tencent-backed platform for coworkers to plan and collaborate […]... →

Microsoft передаст стартаперам права на принадлежащие ей 1000 патентов стартаперам, использующим различные технологии интернета вещей в рамках сотрудничества с облачной платформой Microsoft Azure. Также американская компания передаст около 500 патентов организации LOT Network, которая также защищает небольшие компании от патентных троллей. С LOT Network сотрудничают также Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix,  SAP, Epic Games, Ford, GM, Lyft и Uber.... →

Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also provides customers who are building IoT solutions that connect to Azure with access to 10,000 patents to defend themselves against intellectual property lawsuits. What’s maybe most interesting here, though, […]... →

В апреле 2019 года в Санкт-Петербурге откроется первая в России кофейня, использующая технологии искусственного интеллекта (ИИ) и блокчейн. Об этом Rusbase рассказали представители Microsoft, систему которой — Microsoft Azure — применят в новом заведении.... →

At last year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe and SAP took the stage to announce the launch of the Open Data Initiative. The idea behind this effort was to make it easier for their customers to move data between each others’ services by standardizing on a common data format and helping them […]... →

Microsoft has won a restraining order in a U.S. court in order to take control of domains used by an Iranian hacker group. The software and cloud giant applied to the court in order to take control of 99 websites used by the hacker group, known as Phosphorus or APT 35, in various hacking operations. […]... →

Beware children. April Fools’ Day is nearly upon us. It’s arguably the worst day of the year, but one we stubbornly cling to because of tradition. Tech companies certainly aren’t immune from the draw of building up and instantly crushing the dreams of millions of users, and pranks have become pretty common place with many […]... →