Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

The Surface line has been a surprising hit for Microsoft in recent years. What many regarded as little more than proof of concept for Windows 10 has become a leader in the two-in-one tablet category in its own right. But according to a new survey conducting by Consumer Reports, the devices have proven far more unreliable than much of the competition. In fact, things are so bad, the publication… Read More... →

Interest in blockchains is at an all-time high, but there are still plenty of technical issues to solve, especially for enterprises. For them, issues like throughput, latency, governance and confidentiality are still major stumbling blocks for using blockchains. With its new Coco Framework, Microsoft wants to solve these issues and make blockchains more suitable for the enterprise. Read More... →

Microsoft пообещала изменить поведение антивируса Windows Defender.... →

«Лаборатория Касперского» отзовёт все жалобы о недобросовестной конкуренции со стороны Microsoft, поданные регуляторам из-за ограничений для производителей антивирусов в Windows 10. Об этом говорится в блоге компании.... →

«Лаборатория Касперского» готовится отозвать свое обращение в Европейскую комиссию по делу с американской корпорацией Microsoft. В «Лаборатории» отметили, что Microsoft устранила все пункты нарушения антимонопольного законодательства. Об этом сообщает ТАСС. «Мы довольны предложенным Microsoft подходом к исполнению предупреждений ФАС и сроками его реализации. Мы также готовим обращение в Европейскую комиссию и Федеральное ведомство по картелям Германии о том, что у нас к Microsoft больше нет замечаний», — р... →

When AWS today became a full-fledged member of the container standards body, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it represented a significant milestone. By joining Google, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat and just about every company that matters in the space, AWS has acknowledged that when it comes to container management, standards matter. Read More... →

Microsoft is launching a new opt-in beta program for Outlook.com today that will give users access to a faster and more personalized email experience, as well as an overhauled design. Over the next few weeks, the Outlook.com team will roll out a new toggle for opting into the beta to all users. Those who don’t like the new look and feel can easily switch back to the old version. The… Read More... →

We’re taking a look at the IPOs of tech’s biggest players—firms we call the Big 5. We started with Amazon and Google. Today, we’re taking a look at Microsoft.  Microsoft went public in 1986 for $21 per share, a price that was both higher than what many expected it to command, and a figure that was reportedly higher than Bill Gates had wanted. The firm was… Read More... →

Earlier this month, reports confirmed a Spotify app for Microsoft’s Xbox One was in internal beta testing. Today, that app is becoming publicly available. The new Spotify app for the Xbox One is now launching in 34 markets worldwide, Spotify announced, allowing gamers to play songs, albums and playlists directly from their console, including while in a gaming session. The app, which… Read More... →

As Dropbox slowly gears up toward its initial public offering, it’s bringing on a longtime enterprise executive — Quentin Clark, a former VP of Microsoft as well as SAP CTO — as head of its very-long-title-management-where-he-will-oversee-a-ton-of-things. His official title is going to be SVP of Engineering, Product, and Design, where he will oversee all of those operations.… Read More... →

Streaming music service Spotify should finally make its way to Microsoft’s Xbox One sometime soon, as a report from The Verge confirms user posts from Reddit that a beta version of the app is being tested internally at Xbox. The Spotify app has been available on PlayStation 4 since 2015, so its arrival on Microsoft’s current console seems overdue for Xbox gaming Spotify… Read More... →

Posted by wrttnwrdContent creation is hard enough without adding bad HTML into the mix. Echoing his recent talk at MozCon, we're excited to welcome Ian Lurie from Portent, Inc. on this episode of Whiteboard Friday. Learn how to cut out the cruddy code produced from writing in word processors by adopting Markup and text editors as your go-to writing solution. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab! Video TranscriptionHey, Moz fans. My name's Ian Lurie. I am the CEO... →

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with over 500 million users, has put a lot of effort into new areas of business like content, education and bringing on new users in emerging markets; but today it’s embarking on the roll out of a new service that plays squarely into the bread and butter of its business: looking for work. Today, the company is debuting a… Read More... →

Remix 3D is Microsoft’s community site for sharing 3D models from Paint 3D and other 3D modelling tools. Given the company’s focus on mixed and virtual reality, it’s no surprise that the company wants to get people to think about building the kind of 3D models that bring these new experiences to life. The premise of Remix 3D, as the name implies, has always been that it’s… Read More... →

Facebook announced this morning that it had completed its move to neural machine translation — a complicated way of saying that Facebook is now using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to automatically translate content across Facebook. Google, Microsoft and Facebook have been making the move to neural machine translation for some time now,… Read More... →

Microsoft “mixed reality” headsets are finally available (for developers) on the Microsoft store. The company opened pre-orders for the headset back in May, now developers can get their hands on Acer’s headset for $299 and an HP model for $329. Specs-wise the two headsets are pretty much identical. Both sport 1440×1440 per eye 90hz displays with 95 degree field-of-view,… Read More... →

Microsoft has redesigned the USB dongle used to connect your Xbox One controller to your Windows 10 laptop, and thank goodness for that. The formerly hulking black slab is now a much more modestly sized black slab, which is roughly the size of most flash drives, and won’t stick out like a sore, incredibly huge thumb on your notebook or PC. The new adapter is $24.99 and ships starting… Read More... →

Snap Inc has joined the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, which sees consumer internet companies cooperating to stop the spread of terrorism and extremism online. Facebook, Google and YouTube, Microsoft, and Twitter formed the GIFCT last month, and tomorrow it will host its first workshop with fellow tech companies plus government and non-governmental organizations. The GIFCT started… Read More... →

Google today announced a small but important update to how Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange can work together going forward. It’s not unusual for a company to still use both Google’s G Suite tools and Microsoft Exchange in parallel and with this update, G Suite admins can now allow their users to see real-time free/busy information across the two systems. This means tools… Read More... →

Маленькая деталь в документах сыграла ключевую роль в расследовании... →