Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft выпустила сервис для управления задачами To-Do, который позволяет составлять списки дел и ставить напоминания. В будущем Microsoft планирует заменить новым приложением менеджер Wunderlist, купленный в 2015 году.... →

Microsoft acquired the popular mobile to do list application Wunderlist back in 2015, and now it’s preparing users for its eventual demise with the release of its new application “To-Do,” announced today. The new app was built by the team behind Wunderlist, and will bring in the favorite elements of that app in the months ahead, Microsoft says. The company also added that… Read More... →

Nokia may not be a company that you’ve thought about much since the company sold its handset division to Microsoft in 2014, but since then, the company has invested most of its time into growing out its communication businesses across the globe. They’ve also been throwing some early efforts behind high-end VR capture through its oddly beautiful $40k OZO virtual reality… Read More... →

For Microsoft, the last year or so has been all about infusing its various products with “intelligence.” Those smarts may come in the form of advanced analytics or deep learning, but the main point here is that the company believes these techniques can solve major pain points for its customers, whether they are PowerPoint users or SQL Server admins. Read More... →

In recent years, Microsoft, Facebook and Slack (and many more) have all built new productivity platforms for workers to integrate and communicate about dozens of other API-enabled enterprise apps, but what about productivity tools for those enterprises that have no appetite or budget to rip out and replace software that they’ve been using for years? Well, there’s an app for… Read More... →

Несколько российских судов отклонили просьбы Microsoft на проверку компьютеров российских компаний на предмет пиратства, где число сотрудников превышает количество выданных лицензий на программное обеспечение корпорации, пишут «Известия».... →

19 апреля в Москву съедутся виднейшие мировые специалисты в области блокчейн-технологий.  Вместе с российскими банкирами и предпринимателями они обсудят российские и зарубежные блокчейн-проекты в финансах и небанковской сфере. Поводом для встречи станет ежегодная Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia, где выступают представители IBM, Microsoft, Сбербанка, НИУ ВШЭ и Госдумы.  Темами потока Finance станут:  применение блокчейна в банковской сфере и государственном управлении вопросы законодательства.  Пот... →

Компания хотела отправлять приставов для проверки ПК в отечественных компания.... →

LinkedIn sounds like it’s getting a little less buttoned down under Microsoft – the social network has a new version of its Terms of Service going into effect on June 7, 2017, and the changes include a new privacy policy that covers new and upcoming LinkedIn features that aim to give profiles more visibility, and to make it easier to actually achieve the social… Read More... →

Microsoft announced today that it was acquiring Bellevue-based Intentional Software for an undisclosed amount of money. With the purchase, Charles Simonyi, Intentional founder, Chairman, and CTO, who helped develop some of Microsoft’s famous Office tools like Excel and Word returns to Microsoft. Simonyi left Microsoft in 2002 to launch Intentional. While it’s not crystal clear… Read More... →

It’s been just under a year since Backblaze‘s B2 cloud storage service came out of beta. The platform’s main selling point at the time was definitely its pricing, which undercut virtually all of its larger competitors (think AWS, Google and Microsoft). Today, it’s launching a new round of price cuts, this time focused on download cost. Instead of $0.05 per gigabyte… Read More... →

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has a new project, and it may just surprise you. Ballmer is these days mostly known for owning the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team and a significant Twitter stake, but this week he is taking the wraps off USAFacts, a website chock-full of data related to U.S. government spending. The idea is to present the facts around the government, and its use of… Read More... →

Microsoft’s business-centric IFTTT competitor Flow and its ‘low-code’ PowerApps platform are both getting major updates today. While these are obviously different services that solve different issues, both aim to help non-developers make better use of their existing data and services without having to write their own code. While Flow, at its core, uses the… Read More... →

Команда представит Россию на международном финале Imagine Cup 2017 в Сиэтле.... →

Microsoft researchers were working late into the hours the Friday before this holiday weekend looking to address yesterday’s Shadow Brokers dump of Windows exploits. In a message sent to TechCrunch overnight, the company said it has addressed the issue for systems running Windows 7 and later. “We’ve investigated and confirmed that the exploits disclosed by the Shadow Brokers… Read More... →

Posted by randfishHovering your finger over the big red "launch" button for your new website? Hold off for just a second (or 660 of them, rather). There may be SEO considerations you haven't accounted for yet, from a keyword-to-URL content map to sweeping for crawl errors to setting up proper tracking. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand covers five big boxes you need to check off before finally setting that site live. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a new tab! Video ... →

Microsoft’s biannual transparency report was just released and, like many other major tech companies who’ve been putting out their reports recently, the company has revealed its first National Security Letter. The FBI uses NSLs to secretly obtain investigative information from tech companies about their customers. The letters do not require judicial approval and are often… Read More... →

Microsoft just sent out invites to members of the media for its big reveal of Xbox Project Scorpio, the upgraded console that will be the “first true 4K console for gamers” according to the company. We’ve long expected E3’s press event to be the big consumer debut for Scorpio, but Microsoft spelled out that it will indeed be the star of the show in a blog post on… Read More... →

Since the dawn of Azure, Microsoft has talked about how enterprises can benefit from a hybrid cloud approach — that is, using the public cloud while still running some of their applications in their own data centers. Even today, Microsoft says that 80 percent of the companies it talks to still want to use a hybrid cloud approach and to help them move to its cloud services, the company… Read More... →

Invites have just dropped for Microsoft’s latest press conference. Details are scant for the “Learn What’s Next” event happening May 2 in New York City, but between the title and the big #MicrosoftEDU hashtag that graces the crudely colored artwork, this looks to be focused on the company’s next big play at the education sector. Back in January, the company… Read More... →