Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, is preventing users in Iran, Syria, Crimea and potentially other sanctioned nations from accessing the service, chief executive of the Microsoft-owned firm said. Over the weekend, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote on Twitter that […]... →

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and […]... →

Nestled among the many indistinguishable buildings of Microsoft's Redmond campus, a multi-disciplinary team sharing an attention to detail that borders on fanatical is designing a keyboard... again and again and again. And one more time for good measure. Their dogged and ever-evolving dedication to "human factors" shows the amount of work that goes into making any piece of hardware truly ergonomic.... →

Японская SoftBank объявила о создании фонда Vision Fund 2 объёмом около $108 млрд. Фонд будет инвестировать в технологические компании, которые в том числе занимаются разработками в области искусственного интеллекта. SoftBank инвестирует в фонд $38 млрд. Остальное вложат партнёры, среди которых, как ожидается, будут Apple, Foxconn, Microsoft, а также суверенный фонд Казахстана, несколько банков и других компаний. Сейчас SoftBank ведёт переговоры ещё с несколькими потенциальными партнёрами, и общая сумма фон... →

Среди соинвесторов фонда холдинг называет Apple, Microsoft и суверенный фонд Казахстана.... →

SoftBank Group announced today that it will launch its second Vision Fund with participation from Apple, Foxconn, Microsoft and other tech companies and investors. Called the Vision Fund 2, the fund will focus on AI-based technology. SoftBank said the fund’s capital has reached about $108 billion, based on memoranda of understandings. SoftBank Group’s own investment […]... →

It looks like the return of Softbank’s Vision Fund may be less reliant on murder money and more reliant on Microsoft’s money-making machine for its backing. The rumored involvement of Microsoft in financing Softbank Vision Fund II (electric boogaloo?) is interesting for what it may indicate about how the relationship between venture investors, startups, and […]... →

Microsoft случайно показала новый дизайн меню «Пуск» для следующего обновления Windows 10. Версия предназначалась для внутреннего тестирования, но из-за утечки стала доступна участникам программы Windows Insider, использующим 32-разрядные устройства.... →

Компания Software AG и корпорация Microsoft представили новое передовое решение, с помощью которого предприятия смогут ускорить и упростить миграцию в Microsoft Azure, сохранив при этом непрерывность бизнес-процессов. Новое решение Cloud Migration Accelerator от Software AG на базе платформы интеграции webMethods.io позволяет быстрее и проще подключаться к приложениям, облачным службам и данным, обеспечивая плавный переход к […] Сообщение Software AG и Microsoft предлагают бизнесу возможность быстрой и прос... →

Рынок наводнили новые инструменты продаж, среди которых не всегда легко выделить действительно полезные программы. Старший бизнес-консультант Microsoft Рашан Диксон назвал четыре тренда в технологиях, которые помогут нарастить продажи в следующем году.... →

A second Vision Fund is in the works.... →

Final Reminder: Extra Crunch Event Discount for Tomorrow’s Summer Party TechCrunch’s annual Summer Party is tomorrow — come meet all the staff at the Park Chalet beer garden on the Pacific Coast in San Francisco. If you want to join us, be sure to use your event discount (part of the annual EC subscription offering) […]... →

One more consequence of the FTC’s investigation of Facebook, which culminated in a record $5 billion settlement announced today: it’s finally tightening another string in its privacy policy by cutting off access to friend data for Microsoft and Sony, the company announced today. It described having allowed them access up to now as “our mistake.” […]... →

Во втором квартале 2019 года рост расходов на поисковую рекламу в Google замедлился, тогда как по Microsoft Advertising наблюдались наиболее высокие показатели за последние три года. Об этом говорится в новом отчёте Merkle по рынку digital-маркетинга в США. Согласно представленным данным, расходы на товарные объявления в Microsoft Advertising (новое название сервиса Bing Ads) увеличились на […] Сообщение Merkle: рост расходов на поисковую рекламу в Google замедлился появились сначала на Searchengines.ru.... →

As the ways we consume content multiply and change, media creators are hard pressed to adapt their methods to take advantage. Short-form audio and video news is one growing but labor-intensive niche — and Agolo aims to help automate the process, pulling in the AP as a client and Microsoft, Google, and Tensility as investors.... →

Microsoft today published three data sharing agreements that it hopes can function as a basis for other organizations who want to create similar documents. In today’s announcement, Erich Anderson, Corporate Vice President and Chief IP Counsel at Microsoft, argues that while there are plenty of organizations that want to work together on shared datasets, the […]... →

When Microsoft reported its FY19, Q4 earnings last week, the numbers were mostly positive, but as we pointed out, Azure earnings growth has stalled. Productivity and business, which includes Office 365, has also mostly flattened out. But slowing growth is not always as bad as it may seem. In fact, it’s an inevitability that once you […]... →

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership OpenAI was founded three years ago by Elon Musk, Sam Altman […]... →

Компании будут развивать технологии на основе облачной платформы Microsoft Azure.... →

Microsoft is making a $1 billion bet on OpenAI, the company formed by notable founders including Elon Musk and Sam Altman three years ago with the aim of doing research and development work to steer the growth of artificial intelligence towards the ‘friendlier’ end of the spectrum, in order to help mitigate what Musk sees […]... →