Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

До этого сервис-аналог Slack работал только по подписке на пакет Office 365.... →

Microsoft is launching a few new networking features today that will make it easier for business to use the company’s Azure cloud to securely connect their own offices and infrastructure using Azure and its global network. The first of these is the Azure Virtual LAN service, which allows businesses to connect their various branches to […]... →

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the service with the general availability of its second-generation compute-optimized tier and today it’s doubling its query performance thanks to the launch of its new instant […]... →

Microsoft announced a number of new tools for its MyAnalytics tool for Office 365 users today that are geared toward giving employees more data about how they work, as well as ways to improve how teams work together. In today’s businesses, everybody has to be a team player, after all, and if you want to […]... →

Microsoft opened up the news floodgates this morning, in the kick off to its annual Inspire event in Paris. One of the more compelling announcements of the bunch is the addition of a free version of Teams. The Slack competitor has been kicking around in some form or other since late-2016, but the $60 a […]... →

Microsoft previewed White Board last May, alongside the new Surface Pro, eventually rolling it out in public beta in December. The collaboration app just went live to all Windows users, as part of the deluge of announcements tied to the upcoming Inspire conference. Whiteboard is kind of digital sibling to Microsoft’s large Surface Hub display. […]... →

GitHub, the code hosting service Microsoft recently acquired, is launching a couple of new features for its business users today that’ll make it easier for them to access public repositories on the service. Traditionally, users on the hosted Business Cloud and self-hosted Enterprise were not able to directly access the millions of public open source […]... →

Facebook continues to expand its VR ambitions in the Pacific Northwest. The company has been quietly growing its footprint 16 miles East of Seattle, in Microsoft’s backyard. A new analysis by real estate resource BuildZoom sheds additional light on the Menlo Park-based company’s efforts to build a satellite virtual reality HQ in and around Seattle. […]... →

Netskope, a company that focuses on security in the cloud, announced today it has acquired Sift Security, a startup launched in 2014 to help secure cloud infrastructure services like Amazon, Microsoft and Google using machine learning. The company did not share terms of the deal, but Sift’s 10 technical employees will become part of Netskope’s […]... →

Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse, announced a partnership with Microsoft today to expand their offering to the Azure cloud. The new product is still in Preview for now. Given that Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years, it’s certainly not surprising that Microsoft is the company’s second partner after working […]... →

Он должен стать конкурентом iPad, но придётся потратить ещё $100 на док-станцию с клавиатурой.... →

Microsoft dropped a pretty clear hint yesterday about this morning’s big news. After all, the latest addition to the Surface line has been over the past couple of months the subject of everything from early rumors to FCC approval to spec sheet leaks. And for the most part, the rumors were spot-on. This is the […]... →

Microsoft all but announced as much via the official Surface account. The company tweeted out the leading question “Where will Surface go next?” along with a image of the full lineup — the Pro, Laptop, Book 2 and swiveling all-in-one Studio. The desktops each displaying 6:00 on Tuesday, July 10 is the other key hint […]... →

Основатель и глава Facebook Марк Цукерберг обошёл Уоррена Баффета и занял третье место в списке самых богатых людей мира по версии Bloomberg. Первую позицию в этом рейтинге по-прежнему занимает глава Amazon Джефф Безос, вторую – сооснователь Microsoft Билл Гейтс. Их состояние оценивается в $142 млрд и $94,2 млрд соответственно. Капитал 34-летнего Цукерберга превышает $81,6 млрд. […] Сообщение Марк Цукерберг занял третье место в списке самых богатых людей мира появились сначала на Searchengines.ru.... →

Журналист и ИТ-эксперт Ом Малик — о том, почему покупка GitHub компанией Microsoft — хорошая сделка.... →

Welcome back to CTRL+T, the TechCrunch podcast that connects the tech to the human. This week we talked about the beta release of Apple’s latest mobile operating system and some of the issues we have with the Memoji feature. We also discussed the fact that Microsoft improved its facial recognition tech, making it easier to identify […]... →

Корпорация Microsoft, ранее в этом месяце купившая платформу GitHub за $7,5 млрд, была не единственной заинтересованной в этом приобретении стороной. В их числе также значился Google. Об этом заявила руководитель облачного направления Google Дайан Грин (Diane Greene). «Я была бы не против купить их, но всё нормально», — сказала Грин на мероприятии Fortune Magazine, которое прошло […] Сообщение Google также интересовался покупкой GitHub – Bloomberg появились сначала на Searchengines.ru.... →

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. Google raised the curtain with a splashy announcement that they’d be setting up […]... →

M12, Microsoft’s venture fund which was previously simply known as Microsoft Ventures, has been making a series of investments in the last few weeks. Today, it’s leading a $5 million Series A round into Cerebri AI, a startup that uses machine learning to help companies track, analyze and predict their customer’s behavior. The University of […]... →

LinkedIn — the social network with more than 560 million members who connect around work-related topics and job-seeking — continues to add in more features integrating technology from its new owner Microsoft, both to improve engagement on LinkedIn as well as to create deeper data ties between the two businesses. Today, the company announced two […]... →