Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Xbox One owners get a new reason to fire up their consoles on June 1: Xbox Game Pass, the download service Microsoft created to deliver subscription-based gaming with a library of Xbox One and Xbox 360 games in an all-you-can game model. The service is similar to PlayStation Now, Sony’s PlayStation 4-based equivalent, and also to Nivida’s GeForce NOW streaming service for its… Read More... →

While we wait to get more news on Microsoft closing a reported acquisition of Cloudyn, another report has emerged of one more enterprise startup that the software giant is buying in Israel. Calacalist reported earlier today that Microsoft is paying $100 million to acquire Hexadite, a cybersecurity company that uses AI to sort through and address smaller network attacks — which can… Read More... →

Posted by ronell-smithThat sound you hear is the coming together of MozCon 2017. [You can hear that, right? It's not just me.] With less than two months to go, most of the nuts and bolts of the event have been fastened together to create what looks to be one of the strongest MozCons in history. Yeah, that's saying a lot, but once you've perused the speakers' lineup, we're sure you'll agree. MozCon has a rich tradition of bringing together the best and brightest minds in digital marketing, creating a place f... →

Today’s Stories  Weeks after launching the Surface Laptop, Microsoft announces its new Surface Pro laptop replacement Apple and Nokia bury patent hatchet Uber says it accidentally underpaid drivers in New York City Snapchat now lets you create custom stories for groups of friends and family Pinterest brings full dish recognition to its Lens camera search Credits Written & Hosted… Read More... →

Microsoft CVP Yusuf Mehdi isn’t shy about mentioning the competition. As we discuss the company’s recent launch of Windows 10 S, he refers to the pared down operating system as a “Chromebook compete.” The company knows that Google is eating its lunch in K-12 here in the States, so it answered with its own version, and it’s not really making any bones about it. Gone… Read More... →

Putting their own money where their business is, the founders of G2 Crowd joined a new $30 million financing for their business review platform. The round was led by Accel and included undisclosed industry executives and corporate dollars from the professional networking site (and Microsoft subsidiary) LinkedIn. The company said it will use the funds to speed up the development and marketing… Read More... →

Проект PandaDoc, представляющий комплексное решение для документооборота, привлек $15 млн инвестиций в раунде B. Лид-инвестором выступил фонд Rembrandt Venture Partners. Также участие в раунде приняли компании Microsoft Ventures, HubSpot, EBRD и Altos Ventures, сообщает Techcrunch. PandaDoc автоматизирует электронную доставку и подписание документов, в том числе и договоров. Также пользователям предлагаются аналитические инструменты, включающие точное время открытия, комментирования или подписание документ... →

Microsoft представила новое поколение планшетов Surface Pro на базе ОС Windows 10. В новой линейке компания решила отказаться от нумерации поколения в названии, передаёт Business Insider.... →

PandaDoc, a 6 year old startup, has always had a simple goal of eliminating the pdf from the sales collateral pipeline, while helping busy salespeople automate the proposal and contract process. Today it landed $15 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Rembrandt Venture Partners, but also included participation by Microsoft Ventures, HubSpot, EBRD and Altos Ventures. PandaDoc… Read More... →

Three weeks to the day after launching the Surface Laptop, Microsoft is back with the latest version of its laptop replacement, the Surface Pro. The company says it eliminated the numbering scheme to streamline things — but sometimes simplification has the exact opposite effect. Things are kind of confusing here, for a number of reasons. Read More... →

Microsoft says it didn’t mean to do a “head fake” when it told the press that this week’s big event in Shanghai wouldn’t center around the launch of the Surface Pro 5. Sure, the company was telling the truth, but that’s really a technicality, because the new Surface Pro (full stop) is really the Surface Pro 5. Read More... →

Список книг на лето от сооснователя Microsoft... →

Препятствия для массового распространения технологии остаются, однако в Microsoft не унывают... →

Впечатления студента, который зимой прошел практику в Microsoft... →

A week ago, Microsoft held its Build developer conference in its backyard in Seattle. This week, Google did the same in an amphitheater right next to its Mountain View campus. While Microsoft’s event felt like it embodied the resurgence of the company under the leadership of Satya Nadella, Google I/O — and especially its various, somewhat scattershot keynotes — fell flat… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it will soon open two data center regions for its cloud-based services in Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa. This marks Microsoft’s first data center expansion into Africa and the plan is to get these new regions online in 2018. Like most of its other data centers around the world, these new regions will offer both Azure’s suite of cloud… Read More... →

Аналогичные сервисы есть у Microsoft Azure и Amazon Web Services.... →

Евангелист Microsoft о том, кого можно считать плохими руководителями, как с ними работать и почему увольнение — не выход.... →

Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer Brad Smith took to the company’s website to give a post mortem on the lessons that need to be learned from the global hack that crippled businesses and government services around the world. After walking through the ways that the “WannaCrypt” (or WannaCry) virus spread from the United Kingdom and Spain to websites around… Read More... →

Мнения российских дизайнеров о новом дизайн-мышлении Fluent Design System.... →