Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Competition that results in better care for people suffering from visual impairments is the right kind of competition. Following a path similar to that of Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft India announced this morning that it’s launching a new research group, the Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare, to bring data-driven eyecare services to India. Whereas DeepMind’s… Read More... →

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Here — the mapping business that was sold by Nokia to a consortium of automakers including Audi, BMW and Daimler for $2.8 billion in 2015 — today announced that it has extended a mapping deal with Microsoft. Microsoft was already using Here data in Bing Maps (used in Bing.com, Cortana and other services) and the Bing Maps API. It plans to expand that to use Here mapping data in… Read More... →

President-elect Donald Trump met with some of the most prominent executives from the tech industry today at Trump Tower, with investor Peter Thiel and Vice President-elect Mike Pence at his side. Trump opened the meeting with CEOs from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and others by thanking Thiel for his support. “I want to add that I am here to help you folks do well. And you’re… Read More... →

Vera, the company that secures documents in motion, regardless of the type, announced automated protection for Office 365 documents stored in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint today. Today’s announcement means that instead of having to define a set of security rules for each document created and stored in Microsoft’s repositories, Vera customers can define a set of rules at… Read More... →

What are chatbots for? I asked Zo, Microsoft’s officially launched chatbot, currently available on the Kik Messenger app, what she does — and she was remarkably coy in answering this question, initially complaining that our conversation felt like a job interview and then qualifying this hugely with the intimate confession that “our convos give my life purpose tbh”. Read More... →

Microsoft is making Cortana available to third-party device makers, and opening up the platform to third-party developers, too, so that they can integrate their own services in Cortana-powered devices. The news comes after an earlier revelation that Cortana would be coming to some IoT devices via next year’s Creators Update for Windows 10. Cortana’s new Skills Kit and Devices SDK… Read More... →

И любые другие IoT-устройства с экраном, для чего опубликует инструменты в следующем обновлении Windows 10... →

Microsoft будет распространять своего голосового помощника Cortana среди бытовых устройств, которые могут подключаться к интернету, для удалённого управления ими. Об этом пишет The Verge со ссылкой на презентацию компании.... →

Microsoft’s virtual assistant might soon appear in a whole lot more places – wherever there’s a screen and the ability to run Windows 10 IoT Core, the lightweight version of Windows 10 that’s designed for things like refrigerators and connected thermostats. At a recent event as detailed by MSPoweruser, Microsoft revealed that Cortana will be available to any device… Read More... →

Основатель Microsoft и ряд крупнейших предпринимателей создают специальный фонд... →

Instagram Live is rolling out to all users, Microsoft Ventures opens an AI fund, JetSmarter has a $105 million funding round, Apple’s new app sort of unifies TV and Super Nintendo World theme park is slated to open in 2020. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

You may remember that time Google was under fire for wrongfully indicating that photos of black people were gorillas, and the time Microsoft’s AI bot named Tay turned incredibly racist. Today at Google’s Mountain View headquarters, the company acknowledged its shortcomings, as well as the shortcomings of other technologies in relation to racism and bias at Decoding Race, the… Read More... →

Dropbox is launching a universal Windows app for Xbox, making it the first cloud storage provider to do so, says Microsoft. The app will allow its users to view and share their files, including photos and videos, from the TV. That means you’ll be able to stream your videos from Dropbox via your Xbox, without having to download a local copy. It also means that you’ll be able to… Read More... →

Дизайнер Бенджамин Бранделл написал для блога Usersnap заметку о процессе обучения пользователя в Windows 98 и о том, какие приемы из операционной системы Microsoft могли бы позаимствовать современные сервисы.Команда Sketchapp подготовила перевод заметки.... →

Microsoft Ventures today announced two steps that point to how the tech giant’s VC arm wants to get involved in artificial intelligence in a big way. First, it’s now going to pursue investments in AI startups through a special fund dedicated to AI startups that focus on “inclusive growth and positive impact on society.” Second, it is the first announced backer… Read More... →

According to Microsoft, November marked the company’s best month for consumer Surface sales by volume (a list that excludes Surface Hub electronic whiteboard). The ever-growing line’s pre-holiday success was no doubt due in no small part to the recent arrival of the refreshed Surface Book and the brand new Surface Studio, the swiveling all-in-one that marks one of the more… Read More... →

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software was born with the best of intentions — to create a record of customer interactions. The problem, salespeople will tell you, is that it becomes a chore. Tact has been designed to add an intelligent layer to CRM — and today it got $15 million to make CRM easier to use. The Series B round was led by Upfront Ventures. Microsoft… Read More... →

A wave of enterprise apps, from Slack through to Facebook’s Workplace, is tackling and changing how employees communicate with each other when they are both far apart and nearby. Now another startup in the same neighborhood as these has raised a significant round of funding to scale up. Dynamic Signal — which has built a platform that lets large businesses (customers include… Read More... →

Производитель антивирусного программного обеспечения «Лаборатория Касперского» в течение месяца планирует подать жалобу на Microsoft в Еврокомиссию из-за злоупотребления доминирующем положением на рынке. Об этом сообщает ТАСС со ссылкой на заявление представителя компании Юлии Кривошеиной. По мнению российской компании, Microsoft создала ситуацию, при которой конкурентные производители защитных решений (в том числе и «Лаборатория Касперского»), не способны […]... →