Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Amazon’s new Cloud Cam and Key, the Microsoft Kinect isn’t being manufactured anymore and Honolulu is the first city to start fining people for crossing the street while looking at their screen. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

The team behind Microsoft’s Edge browser launch a new open source tool today that lets you check your website — or really any other website if you’re so inclined — for potential performance and security issues. Sonar, as the project is called, is a linting tool and site scanner with a focus on helping developers build better, faster and more secure websites.… Read More... →

Grab, Uber’s chief rival in Southeast Asia, finally has a new CTO more than two years after it previously one departed. Today the company introduced Theo Vassilakis, a former Googler who also spent time with Microsoft, as its second ever CTO. There were high hopes for the first, Wei Zhu, who helped create Connect with Facebook, but he left in 2015 after just a year and later sued… Read More... →

За семь лет компания продала 35 млн устройств.... →

Microsoft’s Kinect had a rapid ascent and slow, sputtering demise — it was an inelegant end, as the company couldn’t find a permanent spot for the once revolutionary accessory. Now Microsoft is finally ready to put the final nail in that coffin. Kinect creator Alex Kipman and Xbox GM Matthew Lapsen told Fast Co. that the company is finally end-of-lifing the peripheral, after… Read More... →

В целом с 2010 года было продано 35 млн устройств... →

As far as container orchestration goes, Kubernetes is quickly becoming the de facto standard, even as Docker Swarm and Mesos/Mesosphere DC/OS continue to find their own niches. For the longest time, Microsoft argued that one of the advantages of its managed Azure Container Service (ACS) was its support for multiple orchestration tools, but that’s shifting a bit today and Microsoft is… Read More... →

LinkedIn — the Microsoft-owned platform for those who want to network with professional contacts and advance their own careers — has been in the middle of a long-term makeover of its social tools, as it looks to drive more usage. Today comes the latest chapter in that story: the site is unveiling a new smart reply feature in its messaging app, which gives users prompts with… Read More... →

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is probably best known for being the home of the Kubernetes container orchestration project, but there plenty of other projects that now fall under the organization’s umbrella. All of them focus on bringing the kind of modern cloud-native tooling that companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and others take for granted to a wider range… Read More... →

Microsoft said it will drop its lawsuit against the Department of Justice over gag orders placed on companies that prevent them from telling customers when their personal data has been accessed by investigators. Its decision comes after the DOJ issued a new binding policy that requires prosecutors to give more detailed reasons when applying for a gag order and makes it much harder to seek one… Read More... →

Here’s some cloud computing news you probably didn’t see coming: Microsoft has partnered with Cray to bring that company’s supercomputers and its storage system to the Azure platform. When you think if Cray, chances are you are thinking about the company’s (somewhat overdesigned) machines from the seventies and eighties (most likely the circular ones with the… Read More... →

People often stop after Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant when rattling off the list of smart assistants. Cortana really gets no love at all. The oversight can be chalked up, in part, to the fact that AI has been mostly desktop-bound. No one’s really bothered to take Cortana to the next level — Microsoft certainly isn’t taking the initiative. Read More... →

Капитализация Microsoft по итогам торгов 19 октября превысила отметку $600 млрд впервые с 2000 года. Об этом пишет MarketWatch со ссылкой на данные аналитической компании FactSet.... →

It’s been nearly two full years since the first Echo was made available to Amazon Prime subscribers. In that time, the company added six new members to the Echo family (seven if you count the Tap, which Amazon kind of, sort of does) — and in the case of the Echo Dot, did one full product refresh. Google entered the space in a big way with Home, and both Apple and Microsoft have… Read More... →

When you open a Google doc or a spreadsheet, you get a blank spreadsheet and some documentation as to what you can do with it — and that’s pretty much where we’ve been for quite some time. But two MIT graduates, coming in from Microsoft and Google, have built up a team that for the past three years has quietly been trying to rethink how we approach documents. CEO Shishir… Read More... →

Бизнес-ангел и управляющий партнер фонда GVA Vestor.In Павел Черкашин запустил блокчейн-платформу Blockchain Programmatic Corporation (BPC). Сооснователями проекта стали Влад Нестеров, экс-СТО биржи ссылок Sape, и американские предприниматели — братья Юрий и Яков Камен. Об этом Firrma сообщили в стартапе и подтвердил Черкашин. По словам Павла Черкашина «из $100, вложенных в рекламу, до издателя, который показывает эту рекламу, в лучшем случае доходит $20-30. Остальное съедается армией посредников». «В услов... →

ВКонтакте обновила десктопное приложение VK Messenger и добавила в него сообщения сообществ. Как сообщается в официальном пресс-релизе, теперь администраторы могут подключить неограниченное количество групп для удобного общения с подписчиками и настроить уведомления, чтобы моментально реагировать на вопросы клиентов. С сегодняшнего дня VK Messenger с новыми функциями уже представлен в магазинах приложений App Store и Microsoft […]... →

17 октября Microsoft объявил о выходе очередного ежегодного обновления Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. В ближайшие дни доступ к новой версии операционной системы получат пользователи по всему миру. Основные нововведения: Cortana Виртуальный помощник Cortana начал поддерживать новые голосовые команды. Теперь ассистента можно попросить перезагрузить компьютер, завершить его работу или перевести его в режим сна. Photos […]... →

Став первым российским банком в организации, куда уже вступили Credit Swiss, JPMorgan, Deloitte, Intel, Microsoft и другие... →

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