Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

AWS and Microsoft may be arch rivals when it comes to competing for business in cloud storage and services, but when it comes to breaking ground in newer areas where volumes of data make a difference to how well the services work and creating systems that are easier to use, collaboration is key. Today, the two companies announced a new deep learning interface called Gluon, designed for… Read More... →

Zenkit, the project management service from German software producer Axonic, has recently made a name for itself as an alternative to Trello and similar Kanban-style systems. Today, it’s expanding its service with the launch of a new task management feature that more closely resembles Wunderlist, the extremely popular to do list app that Microsoft acquired in 2015 and that it will… Read More... →

Американский журнал Forbes опубликовал рейтинг 500 лучших работодателей в мире. Первое место в нём занял холдинг Alphabet, владеющий Google. На второй строчке списка расположилась компания Microsoft, а на третьей – японская финансовая корпорация Japan Exchange Group. Авторы рейтинга отметили, что занявшие первые три позиции компании обладают «выдающейся привлекательностью для сотрудников». В целом в рейтинге преобладают компании […]... →

Российские государственные компании и организации, включая крымские, покупали программное обеспечение Microsoft Corp. в обход антироссийских санкций США. Об этом сообщает Reuters со ссылкой на данные сайта госзакупок и осведомленные источники. По подсчетам журналистов агентства, российские госструктуры купили около 5 тысяч продуктов Microsoft на сумму свыше 60 млн рублей (около $1,03 млн). По частным компаниям информации о закупках в базе нет. Сумма, потраченная на покупку оборудование, не очень большая, ... →

Microsoft’s virtual assistant Cortana has finally arrived in Skype. Announced at last year’s Microsoft Build 2016 event, the assistant’s integration was also previewed when the company released an overhauled, Snapchat-inspired version of its mobile messaging app this summer. But Cortana for Skype wasn’t ready at that time. Now, the feature is live, offering users… Read More... →

Microsoft Ventures today announced a new AI startup competition with a total prize purse of $3.5 million in investments into the winners. The firm is partnering with Madrona Venture Partners, Notion Capital and Vertex Ventures to host this competition, which is looking for (very) early-stage AI startups in North America, Europe and Israel. The Innovate.AI competition will award $1M in funding… Read More... →

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Microsoft больше не намерен развивать Windows Phone. Компания продолжит выпускать обновления безопасности, устранять ошибки и поддерживать платформу, но новые функции добавлять не будет. Об этом в Twitter рассказал вице-президент корпорации, отвечающий за операционные системы, Джо Бельфиор (Joe Belfiore). Of course we'll continue to support the platform.. bug fixes, security updates, etc. But building new features/hw […]... →

Microsoft сообщил, что в ближайшие дни голосовой помощник Cortana начнёт работать в Skype. Нововведение запускается в приложениях мессенджера для iOS и Android. Первыми доступ к нему получат пользователи в США. Cortana будет анализировать переписку пользователей и предоставлять полезные рекомендации. Например, варианты ресторанов для посещения или отзывы о фильме, о котором шла речь в обсуждении. Голосовой […]... →

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Microsoft signed an agreement with GE today to purchase every last bit of the wind energy from GE’s brand-new 37-megawatt Tullahennel wind farm located in County Kerry, Ireland for the next 15 years. This is a big deal on several levels. First of all, it means Microsoft will be using a clean energy source to power at least some of its cloud data centers in Ireland. That will likely result… Read More... →

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It’s time to say goodbye for real this time. Windows Phone’s death has been slow and painful, but, as CNET spotted, the head of Microsoft’s Windows division finally admitted you shouldn’t expect anything more when it comes to Windows Phone. Microsoft doesn’t plan to let existing Windows Phone users down — there will be security updates. But don’t… Read More... →

While Microsoft is still officially working on the mobile version of Windows 10, it’s no secret that the company has all but given up on building its own mobile ecosystem. That only leaves Microsoft with one option: concede defeat and bring its applications to the likes of Android and iOS. That’s exactly what the company has been doing for the last few years and today the… Read More... →

И обновлённый лончер для Android.... →

MEST appointed Aaron Fu as its new Managing Director, as the Accra based incubator scales up its presence across Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2008, MEST operates as a training program and seed fund for African innovators to build successful commercial tech companies. Fu told TechCrunch he plans to focus on the incubator’s continued expansion. The organization currently has offices or… Read More... →

Azure Functions, Microsoft’s platform for building serverless applications, has long supported a variety of programming languages but it’s adding an important one today: Java. Fittingly, the company made this announcement at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. As Microsoft notes in today’s announcement, Java support was one of the top feature requests for Azure… Read More... →

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 500 million members, has made a large business out of recruitment — with some 11 million job listings on the site at any given time, and the recruitment market providing the company with its largest source of revenue. Now it is taking another step ahead in building out that business with a new product:… Read More... →

Samsung announced the Odyssey today, its inside-out tracked VR headset which will run on the Windows 10 platform. It’s the company first headset that operates with a PC powering it rather than a smartphone, and first impressions indicate that the company did a pretty stellar job. I had a few minutes to play around with the Odyssey today at Microsoft’s mixed reality event, and… Read More... →

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Mixed Reality platform will support SteamVR games over time. That’s a big deal because Steam is, after all, the largest store for buying PC games and Microsoft needs a large catalog of VR games to jumpstart its ecosystem. Until now, though, we didn’t really know what the timeline for this would look like. As the company announced at a… Read More... →