Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

This is a list of tech deals from the past half decade that were surprising because of their size, impact or seeming randomness. Some have paid off, while others (cough*Microsoft-Nokia*cough) remain head-scratchers. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced the preview launch of a new family of virtual machines for its Azure cloud computing platform that’s specifically geared toward bursty workloads. Microsoft argues that these so-called B-series machines, which are currently the lowest cost Azure machines with flexible CPU usage, should work well for workloads like web servers, small databases, and dev/test… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that 125,000 organizations in 181 markets now use Teams, its Slack competitor for Office 365 subscribers. That’s up from the 30,000 organizations in 145 markets that had adopted the service by the end of January. In addition to this momentum update, the company also announced a number of feature updates to the service. Starting today, you can add anyone with… Read More... →

Facebook and Microsoft announced ONNX, the Open Neural Network Exchange this morning in respective blog posts. The Exchange makes it easier for machine learning developers to convert models between PyTorch and Caffe2 to reduce the lag time between research and productization. Facebook has long maintained the distinction between its FAIR and AML machine learning groups. Facebook AI… Read More... →

Almost exactly a year ago, Microsoft and Adobe announced a strategic partnership around Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Adobe’s Marketing Cloud. That, however, was only a first step for the two companies. Today, they are announcing a major expansion of this partnership that sees them collaborating around e-signatures and team communications. Read More... →

Airobotics, a startup building autonomous drones for the enterprise sector that do not require humans to get involved in any aspect of operating them, has picked up $32.5 million in funding to expand its business into defense and homeland security, and to expand its business globally. The Series C round was led by BlueRun Ventures China, with participation also from Microsoft Ventures… Read More... →

Microsoft will host an event in London at the end of October and beginning of November, the latest in its annual ‘Future Decoded’ series. The event will also feature a Surface-focused keynote, The Verge reports, at which it will unveil at least one new hardware device. The most recent update to the Surface line was the new Surface Pro, the fifth generation of Microsoft’s… Read More... →

Facebook has set the pace for how social networks can grow their advertising revenues by leveraging advances and ad tech and the information that they collect about users and their interests through the social graph. Now LinkedIn — the career-focused social network owned by Microsoft with some 500 million registered users — is hoping to step up its game in ads and ad tecch, too.… Read More... →

YouTube today is rolling out several features to make itself more appealing to live streamers, including video game streamers, as the battle with rivals like Amazon’s Twitch and Microsoft’s Mixer continues. Most notably, YouTube will now allow iPhone users to stream directly from their phone’s screen – a feature that was previously available to those on Android. In… Read More... →

Значительная часть госорганов продолжает использовать программное обеспечение американских Microsoft и Oracle, несмотря на импортозамещение в сфере ИТ. Об этом пишет «Коммерсантъ» со ссылкой на исследование аналитического центра TAdviser.... →

Большинство федеральных государственных информационных систем (ФГИС) продолжает работать на базе продуктов американских Microsoft и Oracle. Российское ПО используется редко. Об этом пишет «Коммерсант». Наиболее популярными системами управления базами данных (СУБД) оказались американские ПО — Microsoft SQL Server (доля 38,6% всех ФГИС) и Oracle Database с долей 25,4%. По сравнению с 2015 годом, доля присутствия в России американских софтов сократилась: два года назад на Microsoft приходилось 41,1%, на Oracl... →

Холдинг Softline перед IPO проведет крупнейшее размещение бондов в истории российского IT-рынка. Компания выпустит облигации на общую сумму 10 млрд рублей. Размещение состоится в IV квартале этого года. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости». Softline занимается поставкой IT-продуктов, аутсорсингом и системной интеграцией. В 2007 году компания заявила о желании провести IPO, но из-за кризиса 2008 года размещение было отложено. В 2014 году Softline вернулась к этим планам, заявив, что намерена провести размещение в те... →

Microsoft today announced that the Fall Creators Update, the next major release of Windows 10, will start rolling out to all users on October 17. That’s a little bit later than some pundits expected but still well within Microsoft’s promised release window. When Microsoft announced this update at its Build developer conference earlier this year, some of the more hyped features… Read More... →

Microsoft’s mobile game streaming app Mixer Create is launching out of beta testing today on iOS and Android, allowing gamers to broadcast the games they’re playing right from their phone. This feature works on Android with all games, but is more limited on iOS. On iPhone, select games that have enabled Apple’s ReplayKit functionality will work, the company notes. That… Read More... →

Компания Acronis, работающая в области защиты данных в гибридных облачных хранилищах, назначила Гайдара Магданурова на должность глобального директора по маркетингу. В новой должности он будет отвечать за все маркетинговые активности, развивать узнаваемость бренда компании, определять позиционирование продуктов и услуг для партнеров и заказчиков, разрабатывать и реализовывать стратегию формирования спроса на продукты и услуги компании, а также анализировать потребности заказчиков из различных сегментов и ка... →

Amazon и Microsoft объявили о сотрудничестве в области взаимной интеграции своих голосовых помощников Alexa и Cortana. Позже в этом году пользователи смогут запросить помощь Cortana через устройство на базе Alexa и наоборот. «Мир большой и многогранный. В нём есть несколько успешных интеллектуальных агентов, каждый из которых имеет доступ к разным наборам данных и обладает разными […]... →

Microsoft и Amazon работают над взаимной интеграцией голосовых помощников Cortana и Alexa. Компании заключили соглашение о сотрудничестве, пишет The New York Times.... →

Those betting big on AI being making voice the dominant user interface of the future are not betting so big as to believe their respective artificially intelligent voice assistants will be the sole vocal oracle that Internet users want or need. Read More... →

A handful of tech companies have just been given Emmy awards for a variety of behind-the-scenes accomplishments. Yeah, I didn’t know it was a thing either! Well, I kind of knew. They just don’t play it up a lot. But it’s still a little weird to see Apple win one for Siri, Microsoft win one for Skype and… Comcast win one for its X1 remote. Really?! Read More... →

Tech giants Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are all applying the lessons of machine learning to translation, but a small company called DeepL has outdone them all and raised the bar for the field. Its translation tool is just as quick as the outsized competition, but more accurate and nuanced than any we’ve tried. Read More... →