Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Indoor mapping is one of those problems that seems to only have solutions that involve a great deal of money and infrastructure: beacons, lasers, emitters, scanners… who wants to install those in malls across the world? Microsoft Research has produced an indoor navigation app that keeps things simple, using existing sensors and the fact that people already go most of the places you want… Read More... →

Автопроизводитель BMW станет устанавливать бизнес-версию Skype в информационно-развлекательные системы iDrive своих автомобилей пятой серии. Об этом говорится в сообщении Microsoft, которая договорилась о расширении сотрудничества с BMW.... →

BMW is doing more with partner Microsoft to bring productivity to its vehicles. After adding Office 365 communications features to its BMW 5 series late last year, it’s now also bringing Skype for Business to its infotainment features, making it possible for users to connect to Skype meetings in the car. The Skype integration is going to be integrated into BMW’s iDrive system, and… Read More... →

Researchers have long thought about storing data in DNA and, so far, it seems to be working. They’ve already stuffed a book into DNA and Microsoft is experimenting with a process to store larger amounts of data – just imagine trying to defragment a DNA hard drive. Now, after years of research, a group at Harvard have successfully stored a short movie in E.coli DNA. The system… Read More... →

Seeing AI расскажет людям с нарушением зрения о происходящем вокруг... →

Hyperloop One tests a full-scale version, Vizio is suing LeEco for breach of contract, MIT envisions 3D without the glasses and Microsoft has a plan to challenge DeepMind. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Microsoft today unveiled a redesigned version of its popular Outlook mobile app for iOS and Android, which most notably includes a more intelligent search feature, powered by Microsoft Graph, along with other changes to navigation and conversations. Microsoft Graph, the company’s technology used to make productivity applications smarter, is being used to turn Outlook’s search… Read More... →

Microsoft выпустила мобильное приложение Seeing AI для слабовидящих и слепых людей. Сервис описывает объекты вокруг пользователя с помощью технологий компьютерного зрения, пишет The Verge.... →

Microsoft has created a new research lab with a focus on developing general purpose artificial intelligence technology, the company revealed today. The lab will be located at Microsoft’s Redmond HQ, and will include a team of over 100 scientists working on AI, from areas including natural language processing, learning and perception systems. The aim of building a general purpose AI that… Read More... →

Microsoft больше не будет выпускать обновления для мобильной операционной системы Windows Phone 8.1. Об этом сообщает The Verge. По данным AdDuplex на июнь 2017 года, около 80% всех смартфонов на базе Windows всё ещё работают под управлением Windows Phone 7, 8 или 8.1, и лишь 20% – на Windows 10 Mobile. Обновление Windows Phone до […]... →

After helping to launch the Partnership on AI with Google, Facebook and others; and doubling down on AI research, today Microsoft unveiled a new initiative that points to how it plans to target specific verticals in what can potentially be a very nebulous field — while also raising the public image of AI as some grow concerned about the implications of its encroaching influence. Today,… Read More... →

Microsoft с 11 июля 2017 года больше не будет выпускать обновления для операционной системы Windows Phone 8.1. При этом мобильная версии системы Windows 10, на которой работают некоторые смартфоны, официально не считается устаревшей.... →

Every internet company these days has a plan for connecting people who don’t otherwise have reliable connectivity – Microsoft’s play will use unused TV broadcast channels, also called ‘white spaces,’ to get broadband internet to rural communities in the U.S. The New York Times reports that Microsoft’s pilot project will include offering white space broadband… Read More... →

Posted by Alex-TAfter storing this idea in mothballs for quite a while, I finally decided to conduct an analytical study that would breakdown the most popular industries in the US based on the number of monthly online visitors. Special thanks to the SimilarWeb team, who helped me with the convoluted process of assembling data on the industry traffic distribution across 1,000 top-visited US domains. The purpose of this research isn’t just to share some general trends and observations that will leave you thin... →

When long-time Microsoft COO Kevin Turner left the company last year, it marked a key turning point in the Satya Nadella era. Turner’s exit enabled Nadella to start putting his own stamp on the company, and the layoffs, strategy shifts and personnel changes we’ve seen recently are a reflection of that. Read More... →

In the shadow of its Inspire partner conference, Microsoft today also launched three new tools for small businesses in preview: Microsoft Connection, Microsoft Listings and Microsoft Invoicing. These join the company’s existing stable of small business tools like Microsoft Bookings and the Outlook Customer Manager. Microsoft Connection allows its users to create Mailchimp-like email… Read More... →

Microsoft’s cloud strategy has long focused on the kind of hybrid cloud deployments that allow enterprises to run workloads in a public cloud like Azure and in their own data centers. Azure Stack, its project for bringing the core Azure services into the corporate data center, is the logical conclusion of this. If developers can target a single platform for both the public and… Read More... →

Разработчики «Открытой мобильной платформы», компании российского предпринимателя Григория Березкина, представили прототип смартфон, который сможет работать сразу на двух операционных системах. Демо-версию нового смартфона продемонстривовал «Ведомостям» гендиректор компании Павел Эйгес. Смартфон будет поддерживать две операционные системы: американскую ОС – Android и Sailfish, разработанную финскими программистами. По словам Эйгеса, ОС Sailfish включает до 10 тысяч приложений. Согласно задумке разработчиков... →

Роструд предложил создать отечественный аналог соцсети для поиска деловых контактов LinkedIn. Доступ к сервису заблокирован на территории России с ноября 2016 года. Об этом сообщает агентство RNS. Как ожидается, оператором соцсети выступит Роструд. Разработка проекта может быть реализована в формате государственно-частного партнерства. Соцсеть будет работать на базе портала «Работа в России», который был создан в 2015 году. Новая деловая соцсеть поможет в организации взаимодействия работников, соискателей,... →

Компания объявила о крупной реорганизации... →