Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Madrona Venture Group, the Seattle-based early-stage venture capital firm, today announced that it has appointed S. “Soma” Somasegar to the role of Managing Director. Somasegar joined Madrona as a Venture Partner in 2015. Before that, he was the Corporate Vice President in charge of Microsoft’s Developer Division. There, he managed products like Visual Studio and… Read More... →

Posted by George-FreitagThis is it. The full agenda for MozCon Local 2017 and LocalU Advanced Workshop on February 27-28. If you're a brand with a ton of locations or an agency with local clients, you're going to want to come to MozCon Local 2017. We've got an amazing line-up of speakers from some of the top brains in Local Search to help you put together the perfect local marketing strategy and get the most out of local search.Come visit us in Seattle and learn about local search, SEO, citations, reviews, ... →

Помимо Apple, в топ-5 вошли еще Google, Tesla Motors, Microsoft и Amazon.... →

Announced in October, Windows 10 Creators Update is still a ways off — slated to be released this spring – but Microsoft’s already testing new features galore by way of its Windows Insider preview. The latest edition includes a number of usual updates for the forthcoming OS that are shaping up to make a pretty compelling upgrade. On the list of new offerings in the latest… Read More... →

Apple и одна из известнейших компаний по производству оптики Carl Zeiss занялись разработкой «умных» очков с дополненной реальностью, которые могут появится на рынке уже в 2017 году. Об этом заявил американский блогер, автор отраслевого издания UploadVR и бывший евангелист Microsoft Роберт Скоубл (Robert Scoble), ссылаясь на анонимный источник.... →

Как Мелинде удается внести больше многообразия в индустрию технологий... →

Microsoft launched one of its larger Insider Builds for Windows 10 today. The new version (15002) includes a plethora of new features that touch everything from the Start menu to the Edge browser, Windows Ink, Cortana, Defender and Windows’ built-in accessibility features. All of those are great, but the one new feature that may make the biggest difference in your day-to-day use of… Read More... →

The Garage – Microsoft’s home to experimental projects like smart news apps, Android launchers, productivity add-ons, smartphone keyboards, and yes – even that app that tells you what sort of dog you look like – is expanding to three new locations including Cambridge, Massachusetts, India and China. In total, there are seven Garage locations now open or under… Read More... →

CNN составил список из 13 продуктов и технологий, которые прекратили существование в 2016 году. Firrma публикует адаптивный перевод материала.  Инновации достигли значительного прогресса в 2016 году. Мы увидели, как в Великобритании дрон доставил первую посылку от Amazon, а по дорогам Питтсбурга и Сан-Франциско стали разъезжать беспилотные автомобили Uber. Однако прошедший год в итоге стал удачным не для всех изобретений. Давайте вспомним, как появились и исчезли гироскутера и как развивается история со взр... →

Nokia fans hankering to get their hands on a new smartphone with their beloved brand name — and without Microsoft’s unloved mobile OS — will need to go to China if they want to buy the first Android-powered from the Finnish phone maker that’s now licensing Nokia’s IP for phones. Read More... →

Matibabu, which is competing in our Hardware Battlefield at CES today, isn’t looking to cure any diseases. Instead, the Uganda-based company is looking to make it easier to diagnose malaria so those who are infected can get the right help faster. I actually first ran into Matibabu back in 2013 when the team competed in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup finales. Back then, the team won the… Read More... →

Microsoft isn’t building its own connected car — but it is launching a new Azure-based cloud platform for car manufacturers that want to use the cloud to power their own connected-car services. The new Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform will go live as a public preview later this year. “This is not an in-car operating system or a ‘finished product’,”… Read More... →

The early cancer screening startup Grail plans to raise more than $1 billion in Series B financing today, possibly up to $1.8 billion. While the company doesn’t want to name investor names, only mentioning in a release the funding will come “primarily from undisclosed private and strategic investors,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google… Read More... →

Microsoft’s Surface Studio was one of 2016’s surprise hits. It was a sort of one-two punch that arrived the same week that Apple released its new MacBook Pros to mixed reaction. Microsoft had seemingly come into its own as a producer of series hardware for content creators. Dell previewed its own solution shortly thereafter by way of a quick online trailer. When we met with the… Read More... →

Almost three years ago, Microsoft named Satya Nadella as its CEO. Since then, Microsoft has reversed its fortunes and returned to being a growth stock after stagnating for nearly a decade — and 2016 was not an exception to that. Indeed, as Microsoft continued its transition to cloud-based services and adopting multiple platforms, as well as taking big bets like buying LinkedIn for… Read More... →

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«Ростелеком» объявил тендер на закупку лицензий программного обеспечения Microsoft на 1,26 млрд рублей, говорится в материалах конкурса на сайте госзакупок. Закупка производится у единственного поставщика — компании Comparex, которая входит в австрийскую Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH.... →

Издание Campaign опубликовало колонку Рэя Бехарри (Ray Beharry), главы маркетингового отдела исследовательской компании Pollfish и ментора в стартап-инкубаторе Политехнического института Нью-Йоркского университета. Он описал несколько ситуаций, в которых ошибки исследования рынка приводили компании к многомиллионным потерям. Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод материала.... →

Издание Business Insider выяснило судьбу первых сотрудников Microsoft, которые появились на первом коллективном снимке компании, и оценило их состояние.... →

You’ll be forgiven if you missed it, but lost in the avalanche of this year’s tech news, enterprise social software made an impressive comeback. Led by products like Slack, Workplace by Facebook and Microsoft Teams, a software category that had been languishing for the last several years, suddenly came alive. A decade ago, as social software emerged, it was coined Enterprise 2.0… Read More... →