Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Despite an early lead with Windows Mobile and Windows CE — and spending billions on Nokia’s mobile business — Microsoft has been on its heels in the mobile device market since the one-two punch of iPhone and Android launching in 2007. The introduction of x86-compatible ARM chips and the rise of progressive web apps could drive a return to the mobile market for Microsoft. Read More... →

Now that all the major cloud players have reported their earnings, we have seen some eye-popping growth numbers, particularly from Microsoft. Yet in spite of that, AWS maintains a significant market share lead, according to the latest analysis from Synergy Research Group, released last night after Amazon reported its earnings. AWS, the cloud arm of Amazon.com reported a $4.1 billion… Read More... →

На торгах 27 июля стоимость акций Facebook выросла более чем на 5%, и капитализация компании впервые превысила $500 млрд. Об этом сообщает CNN Money. Amazon впервые достиг той же отметки в среду, 26 июля. Только три компании (и все из технологического сектора) оцениваются рынком дороже: Microsoft ($571 млрд), Alphabet ($667 млрд), Apple ($798 млрд). Акции […]... →

Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup, a global competition of high-tech student projects, reached its culmination this week accompanied by the usual pomp at the company’s headquarters in Redmond. The winner of the $100,000 grand prize and 365 days of bragging rights is X.GLU, a Czech team that created a custom smart glucose meter for children with diabetes. Read More... →

Ahead of its earnings later today, Amazon stock hit an all-time high during intraday trading and with it CEO Jeff Bezos’s estimated wealth hit $90.9 billion, Bloomberg reports. This number pushes the net worth of the Amazon founder past that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, still sitting pretty with $90.7 billion, earning Bezos the title of world’s richest person. Bezos ending the… Read More... →

Microsoft today is launching a couple of major updates to PowerApps, its low-code service for quickly building line-of-business applications, and Flow, its business-centric IFTTT competitor. While these are obviously two very different applications, the general idea to allow businesses to leverage the data that they already generate is similar across both projects. Ryan Cunningham… Read More... →

Компания Microsoft запустила программу вознаграждения хакеров за найденные уязвимости... →

Очки смешанной реальности, технология распознавания эмоций и алгоритм доставки... →

Microsoft запустила программу вознаграждения хакеров за найденные уязвимости, которая называется Windows Bounty Program. Об этом говорится в блоге компании.... →

Microsoft has been running a bounty program for a few years now, launching it just ahead of the release of Windows 8.1 back in mid-2013. At the time, the company was awarding up to $50,000 for exploits, in an attempt to help address any potential security issues before they could become a larger public concern. It’s a tact taken by a number of tech’s biggest names, like Google… Read More... →

Barely a day passes without some news about containers and that speaks to how quickly this technology is being adopted by developers and the platforms and startups that serve them. Today it’s Microsoft’s turn to launch a new container service for its Azure cloud computing platform: Azure Container Instances (ACI). The company also announced that it is joining the Cloud Native… Read More... →

Инициативу уже поддержали Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft и Mozilla... →

В проекте также участвует Microsoft.... →

Adobe today announced that Flash, the once-ubiquitous plugin that allowed you to play your first Justin Bieber video on YouTube and Dolphin Olympics 2 on Kongregate, will be phased out by the end of 2020. Until then, Adobe will still partner with the likes of Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft and Google to offer security updates for Flash in their browsers and support new versions of them. Read More... →

This week on Technotopia I interview Rahul Sood, former founder of Voodoo PC and the current CEO of Unikrn, an e-sports betting service. Sood, who spent a number of years at Microsoft Ventures, started Unikrn because he was the e-sports space was exploding in popularity. His company allows people to bet on gaming events and even bet on themselves as they get better at games. Sood’s… Read More... →

Microsoft заверила пользователей Windows, что графический редактор Paint не прекратит существование и будет перенесён в магазин приложений Windows Store. Об этом говорится в блоге компании.... →

Это один из крупнейших партнеров Microsoft в мире.... →

IT-компания Softline приобрела российское подразделение компании Insight, которая является одним из крупнейших партнеров Microsoft в мире. ООО «Инсайт технолоджи солюшнз» будет переименовано в «Софтлайн энтерпрайз солюшнз», генеральным директором компании останется Карина Габелко. Об этом пишут «Ведомости». Сумма сделки остается неизвестной. Softline и Insight занимаются поставкой IT-продуктов для бизнеса, аутсорсингом и системной интеграцией. Обе компании являются глобальными, выступают партнерами таких I... →

KKR is buying WebMD for $2.8 billion, Didi and SoftBank invest $2 billion into Grab, Daimler and Bosch create a driverless parking garage and the next Microsoft HoloLens gets an AI chip. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Microsoft has revealed that it is preparing to equip the second version of its HoloLens VR headset with its own AI processing capabilities to enable more features and services. The firm said that it is customizing the current processor within the headset with an AI coprocessor that will allow HoloLens to analyze data without needing to use the cloud. That means faster processing times, and… Read More... →