Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

One of Microsoft’s oldest and biggest verticals for its Azure cloud business has been education, and today it announced an acquisition that it hopes will help it deepen its reach: it has acquired DataSense — a data management platform that can be used to collect, integrate and report information from across a range of online education […]... →

Another year, another batch of Super Bowl commercials from tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. In fact, Amazon will have different ads focusing on different areas of the business: one highlighting products that won’t be taking advantage of its voice-powered assistant Alexa, and another previewing “Hanna,” an upcoming show on Amazon Prime. Microsoft, meanwhile, […]... →

While it appears that overall economic activity could be slowing down, one area that continues to soar is the cloud business. Just this week, Amazon and Microsoft reported their cloud numbers as part of their overall earnings reports. While Microsoft’s cloud growth was flat from the previous quarter, it still grew a healthy 76 percent […]... →

Once upon a time, people had to wait for the Super Bowl to watch the ads. Those dark days are over. Now you can have companies sell you products on-demand, any time, day or night. Amazon has already debuted its latest Alexa ad, and now Microsoft’s getting in on the action — and this one’s […]... →

Алгоритм ранжирования поисковой системы Bing, принадлежащей Microsoft, более чем на 90% основан на машинном обучении (ML). Об этом заявили сотрудники поиска Фредерик Дубут (Frédéric Dubut) и Нагу Ранган (Nagu Rangan) в панельной дискуссии на тему «Man vs Machine» на конференции SMX West. Позже Фредерик Дубут уточнил эту цифру в Twitter. По его словам, она составляет […] Сообщение Поисковый алгоритм Bing на 90% основан на машинном обучении появились сначала на Searchengines.ru.... →

Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings today. For the most part, those earnings came in around Wall Streets expectations, without any major surprises and a total revenue of $32.5 billion. Given the company’s bets on cloud computing, what’s maybe most important, though, is that Azure recorded revenue growth of 76 percent. That’s the same growth the […]... →

If you just tried to turn on your Xbox One and were met with nothing but a black screen: you’re not alone. A particularly bad outage in Xbox Live’s core services is causing the console to get stuck at boot. Microsoft is aware of the outage, and says they’ve “identified the cause”. We are aware […]... →

Nvidia today announced that its Quadro Virtual Machine Workstation (vWS) is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The promise of the Quadro vWS it to allow businesses to run high-end graphics applications in the cloud, using any of the Nvidia’s high-end and mid-level cloud  GPUs like the P100, V100, P4 or P40. For the Azure […]... →

That slow clap you hear spreading around the internet today could be due to the fact that Apple has finally added Microsoft Office to the Mac App Store. The package will include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. Shaan Pruden, senior director of worldwide developer relations at Apple, says that when the company overhauled the […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Citus Data, a company that focused on making PostgreSQL database faster and more scalable. Citus’ open source PostgreSQL extension essentially turns the application into a distributed database and while there has been a lot of hype around the NoSQL movement and document stores, relational database — and especially PostgreSQL […]... →

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Поисковая система Bing, принадлежащая Microsoft, заблокирована в Китае – несмотря на цензуру результатов поиска. Об этом сообщает Financial Times со ссылкой на свои источники. Китайские пользователи начали жаловаться на проблемы с доступом к Bing 23 января. Источники FT подтвердили факт блокировки. Сайт cn.bing.com по-прежнему доступен за пределами Китая. В самой стране попытки перейти на него […] Сообщение СМИ: в Китае заблокировали поисковую систему Bing появились сначала на Searchengines.ru.... →

Власти Китая заблокировали доступ к Bing – поисковой системе от Microsoft... →

Microsoft’s Bing is down in China, according to users who took to social media beginning Wednesday afternoon to complain and express concerns. The Seattle-based behemoth has confirmed that its search engine is currently inaccessible in China and is “engaged to determine next steps,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to TechCrunch Thursday morning. The […]... →

In 2019, we still don’t really know what to do about fake news. With nothing to disincentivize viral hyperpartisan headlines and other exercises in confirmation bias, online misinformation seems to run as rampant as ever. It’s a tricky problem, particularly because it’s one that requires the readers most drawn to too outrageous to be true […]... →

When we think of the AI platforms that are shaping how we use voice to interact with phones, home devices and other services, we tend to think of Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google and Microsoft’s Cortana. But there are other players that may prove to have a compelling value proposition of their own. Sherpa.ai, a […]... →

Роскомнадзор разблокировал IP-подсети компании Microsoft. Как сообщили в пресс-службе ведомства, ограничение снято более чем с 130 тысяч сетевых адресов. Специалисты Роскомнадзора установили, что данные подсети длительное время не используются для обеспечения функционирования заблокированного в России мессенджера Telegram. Несколько десятков тысяч IP-адресов облачной платформы Azure, принадлежащей Microsoft, были включены в реестр 19 апреля 2018 года. В […] Сообщение Роскомнадзор разблокировал более 130 000... →

Накануне ведомство сообщило, что отменило блокировку IP-адресов Amazon.... →

Microsoft just unloaded a whole bunch of news in time for the BETT education show. The most interesting bit of the bunch, however, is probably Code Jumper. The tethered hardware device is design to teach children who are blind or have otherwise impaired vision how to code. The device is a continuation of Project Torino, […]... →

Microsoft объявил, что поддержка операционной системы Windows 10 Mobile будет прекращена 10 декабря 2019 года. Пользователям ОС в компании рекомендуют перейти на устройства под управлением iOS или Android. «В связи с прекращением поддержки Windows 10 Mobile мы рекомендуем пользователям перейти на iOS- или Android-устройство. Некоторые функции, включая загрузку фотографий и восстановление устройства из резервной копии […] Сообщение Microsoft назвал дату прекращения поддержки Windows 10 Mobile появились снача... →