Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Tech giants are once again being urged to do more to tackle the spread of online extremism on their platforms. Leaders of the UK, France and Italy are taking time out at a UN summit today to meet with Google, Facebook and Microsoft. This follows an agreement in May for G7 nations to take joint action on online extremism.  Read More... →

Like a train gaining speed as it leaves the station, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is quickly gathering momentum, attracting some of the biggest names in tech. In the last month and a half alone AWS, Oracle, Microsoft, VMware and Pivotal have all joined. It’s not every day you see this group of companies agree on anything, but as Kubernetes has developed into an essential… Read More... →

На конференции Ignite, которая состоится 27 сентября в Орландо, Microsoft представит новую версию поиска Bing и новый Bing Custom Search API. Превью-версия Bing Custom Search API была впервые презентована на конференции Build 2017. Новый интерфейс программирования позволит компаниям создать поисковую систему, которая отвечает их нуждам. «Мы добавили в Custom Search множество новых функций, включая пользовательский […]... →

Crossing the social media divides isn’t common in Silicon Valley, so it’s notable that Twitter and Microsoft have played a spot of musical chairs with their boards. Twitter board member Hugh Johnston — day job: Pepsi vice chairman and CFO — has left Twitter’s board to join Microsoft’s board as of today. Johnston’s replacement at the microblogging… Read More... →

Posted by jkuriaIn this post, we share a CRO case study from Protalus, one of the fastest-growing footwear companies in the world. They make an insole that corrects the misalignment suffered by roughly 85% of the population. Misalignment is the cause of most back, knee, and foot pain. Back pain alone is estimated to be worth $100 billion a year. Summary We (with Protalus’ team) increased direct sales by 91% in about 6 months through one-click upsells and CRO. Based on the direct sales increase, current run... →

Разработка велась консорциумом World Wide Web (W3C) совместно с Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple и Mozilla... →

Группа разработчиков из нескольких IT-компаний создала браузерный API, который позволит оплачивать онлайн-покупки товаров и услуг с помощью криптовалют. Разработка велась консорциумом World Wide Web (W3C) совместно с Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple и Mozilla. В настоящее время поддержка нового API внедряется в браузерах Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Webkit от Apple, Firefox Mozilla, Samsung Internet Browser и […]... →

Ryan Hayes posted on Twitter that Microsoft Bing will be crawling the web for PWAs and will then decide to "auto-ingests quality" PWAs into the Windows store. He posted this based on what Microsoft said at the Microsoft Edge Web Summit...... →

Фонд Altair Capital инвестировал в разработчика децентрализованной краудшуранс-платформы на технологии умных контрактов REGA Risk Sharing. В обмен венчурный фонд получит 15% в компании и одно место в совете директоров. Сумма инвестиций не разглашается. Об этом Firrma рассказали в проекте. Полученные средства REGA Risk Sharing направит на развитие проекта и проведение предстоящего ICO, старт которого назначен на 15 октября 2017 года.  Проект развивает собственную платформу на технологии блокчейн для развёрты... →

Facebook is turning its attention to Canada with a new AI research office in Montreal. Google and Microsoft already have outposts in the city and countless other tech companies, including Uber, have researchers based in Canada. McGill University’s Joelle Pineau will be leading Facebook’s AI efforts in Montreal. Pineau’s research focus tends to lean heavily on robotics and… Read More... →

Приложение Pix для iOS сможет «сканировать» документы, записи на досках и визитные карточки. Об этом рассказали в Microsoft.... →

Microsoft Pix, the iOS camera app that leverages A.I. to help you take better photos, is venturing beyond being a tool for consumers with an update that now sees it able to assist with photos of business documents, whiteboards, post-it notes, and business cards. According to Microsoft, the additional support focused on office productivity made sense because people were already doing a lot… Read More... →

Oracle today announced that it is joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a platinum member. With this move, it’s joining companies like Amazon, Cisco, Google, IBM, Intl, Microsoft and RedHat as the top sponsors for the Linux Foundation-based group that’s the home of the Kubernetes container orchestration project and related tools. Membership in the CNCF… Read More... →

Рассказ UX-дизайнера Hololens Джульетты Вейс.... →

Департамент информационных технологий (ДИТ) Москвы объявил закупку систем управления базами данных (СУБД) Oracle для органов исполнительной власти столицы и их подведомственных учреждений вопреки запрету на закупку иностранного ПО. Максимальная цена контракта на начальном этапе составит 480 млн рублей. Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант». ДИТ планирует закупить 16 наименований лицензий и 6 сертификатов на техническую поддержку на срок до года. В документах ведомство объясняет невозможность исполнения запрета на з... →

This is a list of tech deals from the past half decade that were surprising because of their size, impact or seeming randomness. Some have paid off, while others (cough*Microsoft-Nokia*cough) remain head-scratchers. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced the preview launch of a new family of virtual machines for its Azure cloud computing platform that’s specifically geared toward bursty workloads. Microsoft argues that these so-called B-series machines, which are currently the lowest cost Azure machines with flexible CPU usage, should work well for workloads like web servers, small databases, and dev/test… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that 125,000 organizations in 181 markets now use Teams, its Slack competitor for Office 365 subscribers. That’s up from the 30,000 organizations in 145 markets that had adopted the service by the end of January. In addition to this momentum update, the company also announced a number of feature updates to the service. Starting today, you can add anyone with… Read More... →

Facebook and Microsoft announced ONNX, the Open Neural Network Exchange this morning in respective blog posts. The Exchange makes it easier for machine learning developers to convert models between PyTorch and Caffe2 to reduce the lag time between research and productization. Facebook has long maintained the distinction between its FAIR and AML machine learning groups. Facebook AI… Read More... →

Almost exactly a year ago, Microsoft and Adobe announced a strategic partnership around Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Adobe’s Marketing Cloud. That, however, was only a first step for the two companies. Today, they are announcing a major expansion of this partnership that sees them collaborating around e-signatures and team communications. Read More... →