Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

A team of former Tinder employees, led by Tinder’s original CTO Ryan Ogle, are today launching a new app aimed at professional networking. The app, called Ripple, aims to be a sort of mobile-first alternative to LinkedIn that addresses some of the problems common to the aging, now Microsoft-owned business networking platform. LinkedIn today has a heavy focus on job searching and head… Read More... →

Earlier this week news broke of a pair of massive chip vulnerabilities dubbed Spectre and Meltdown (for an explainer see this post). We learned that the larger cloud vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been in touch with chip vendors and have been working behind the scenes to mitigate the vulnerabilities. But what about smaller cloud hosting vendors like Linode, OVH… Read More... →

Microsoft’s in a weird spot with Cortana. The company’s smart assistant is deployed on countless PCs, by way of Windows 10, but it’s constantly playing second fiddle to the likes of Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant. That’s in no small part because that the company hasn’t done a great job moving beyond the desktop and laptop to devices where voice control makes a… Read More... →

Several cloud vendors began responding to the chip kernel vulnerability  that has the industry reeling today. Each Infrastructure as a Service vendor clearly has a stake here because each one is selling CPU cycles on their platforms. TechCrunch sent a request for comment to six major cloud vendors including AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Rackspace and DigitalOcean. At the time of publication,… Read More... →

In a world shifting to the cloud, Microsoft has carved out a place trying to help companies caught between two worlds — on-prem legacy solutions and the public and private cloud. To help further that hybrid mission, the company announced it was acquiring Avere Systems today for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft describes Avere as “a leading provider of high-performance NFS and… Read More... →

AWS had a successful year by any measure. The company continued to behave like a startup with the kind of energy and momentum to invest in new areas not usually seen in an incumbent with a significant marketshare lead. How good a year was it? According to numbers from Synergy Research, the company remains the category leader by far with around 35 percent marketshare. Microsoft sits well behind… Read More... →

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Швейцарская страховая компания Zurich Insurance Group купила международную IT-компанию Bright box, основанную Иваном Мишаниным и Александром Димченко. Подробности сделки не раскрываются. Инвесторами Bright box были венчурные фонды Cabra.vc, Leta Capital, Cloud4Auto Ventures.Для Cabra.vc это первый выход. Leta Capital вложил в компанию $1,5 млн в ноябре 2014 года.  Moscow Seed Fund и Cloud4Auto Ventures инвестировали 12 млн рублей в Bright box в апреле 2014 года. Московский посевной фонд предоставил займ н... →

Earlier this year, Microsoft shut down Photosynth, its service for stitching multiple images into panoramas and semi-3D models. When it launched in 2008, the service was extremely impressive, but it never quite caught on. Still, it had its fans and now Microsoft is bringing it back in the form of a new feature in its Pix camera app for iOS. In addition, the Pix app is also getting a comics… Read More... →

When Microsoft announced the Windows 10 Fall Creators update, one of the most interesting features the company demoed was Timeline, which lets you find and resume your recent activities as you move between PCs and iOS and Android phones. It’s basically a global task view, backed by Microsoft’s cloud services. Like some other features, Timeline wasn’t quite ready in time for… Read More... →

IT-холдинг Softline закрыл книгу заявок на трехлетние биржевые облигации объемом 2,7 млрд рублей по ставке купона 11% годовых. Техническое размещение состоится 21 декабря, биржу еще не выбрали. Заявки на покупку бондов оставили только росссияне. Об этом пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на представителя Softline Дмитрия Афиногенова. В начале сентября стало известно, что Softline собралась разместить бонды на общую сумму 10 млрд рублей. Это один из из шагов при подготовке к IPO, которое компания намерена провести... →

Microsoft today is officially launching a new version of its Mixer mobile gameplay streaming app, its Twitch rival. The app, which is initially available on Android with iOS arriving soon, was first introduced into beta testing this fall, with a focus on improvements to its overall user experience, content discovery, performance and personalization features. For example, the beta build… Read More... →

At a special AI-focused event today in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a number of feature updates to Bing that it hopes will make results smarter leveraging the company’s AI research as well as a new partnership with Reddit. The company laid out the ways its injecting AI-smarts into its Bing search engine, which a Microsoft exec reiterated is actually used by a good amount of… Read More... →

Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework over two years ago and companies have building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made the Microsoft Azure Bot Service and Microsoft Cognitive Language Understanding service (known as LUIS) generally available. “Making these two services generally available on Azure simultaneously extends the capabilities of… Read More... →

The first thing I download on a new Windows machine – after Chrome, of course – is PuTTY. This tried-and-true OpenSSH client has served millions of devs quite well for the past twenty years and I’m sure it will still remain a favorite but Microsoft has added its own ssh client to Windows, a move that points to more openness on the part of Redmond. The folks at ServeTheHome… Read More... →

At the Microsoft Ignite Conference in September, Microsoft let it be known it was going to be a player in the future of quantum computing, and today the company took another step toward that goal when it released a preview of its quantum computing development kit. The kit includes all of the pieces a developer needs to get started including a Q# language and compiler, a Q# library, a local… Read More... →

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Welcome to Equity, our venture capital and tech business podcast. On the latest episode, we were joined by Nagraj Kashyap, who runs Microsoft Ventures. Topics this week included Lyft’s growing financials and its driverless cars. It looks like the company benefitted during Uber’s eventful year.  We also talked about the change of leadership at Blue Apron.The company has had a… Read More... →

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