Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

The Microsoft Office lineup is getting a new addition today: Microsoft Planner, team collaboration software that lets you visually organize plans, assign tasks, share files, chat and more. The software, first introduced into testing last fall, enters a competitive space which includes pro software like Atlassian’s JIRA Core, as well as other easy-to-use tools from startups like Trello… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it is making a serious commitment to the open source Apache Spark cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem last year, the company today launched a number of Spark-based services out of preview and announced that the on-premises version of R Server for Hadoop (which uses the increasingly popular open source R language for… Read More... →

Apple TV has Siri. Fire TV has Alexa. And now the Xbox will have Microsoft’s own virtual assistant, Cortana. The company announced this morning a summer update for its Xbox One that will include support for Cortana along with other improvements aimed at unifying the gaming console with the Windows 10 platform, and more. The update will initially arrive for those beta testers in the… Read More... →

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Microsoft решила не заниматься созданием собственного самоуправляемого автомобиля, пишет The Wall Street Journal со ссылкой на главу отдела развития бизнеса компании Пегги Джонсон. При этом корпорация может помочь другим разработчикам таких проектов.... →

Part of Microsoft Accelerator’s batch 3 of startups, DefinedCrowd is filling a niche in the big data and machine learning community, providing near-real-time feeds of rich language data, checked by actual well-informed humans all over the world. Read More... →

Игра TurnOn от пермской студии Brainy Studio вчера поступила в продажу на Xbox One и в Steam. Это первая русская игра для приставки от Microsoft.... →

1 июня 2016 года китайский производитель мобильных устройств Xiaomi анонсировал сделку по покупке 1500 патентов Microsoft, сообщает агентство Reuters. Руководство китайской компании полагает, что это ускорит выход бренда на международные рынки.... →

Бывший топ-менеджер Microsoft Рави Раман опубликовал в своём блоге на Medium историю о том, как он решил покинуть хорошую должность ради 18 месяцев путешествий по миру. Раман рассказал о плюсах и минусах своего решения и дал несколько советов тем, кто собирается повторить его поступок.... →

In a keynote presentation at Computex in Taipei and a couple blog posts today, Microsoft doubled down on the mixed reality efforts spearheaded by Hololens – Windows 10, the company aims to show, is place to be when it comes to mixed reality. Read More... →

Xiaomi is moving closer to launching its smartphones in the U.S. market. Today the Chinese company announced a partnership with Microsoft that includes a cross-license and patent transfer agreement and the pre-installation of Skype and Microsoft Office products on Xiaomi devices. Read More... →

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Microsoft just dropped the price of its gaming console. The Xbox One now costs $299 in the U.S. with a 500GB hard drive, or €299 in Europe. For $319, you get a 1TB hard drive. And bundles also get a $50 price cut. Interestingly, this news comes right before E3. Microsoft is set to announce a new, slimmer Xbox One. Rumor has it Read More... →

Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube, Microsoft as well as the European Commission unveiled a new code of conduct to remove hate speech in less than 24 hours across these social media platforms. The EU has ramped up efforts leading to this code of conduct following the recent terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris. Read More... →

Marketo, the marketing software giant that went public in 2013, is being taken private again: PE firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired the company for $1.79 billion in an all-cash deal. The news ends weeks of speculation in which people guessed that Marketo would be snapped up by strategics like Microsoft (who is a big partner of Marketo) or SAP. In the end, it’s a PE firm, thereby… Read More... →

As Google moves ahead to develop its Area 120 in-house incubator program, Microsoft is also looking to get more of its startup ducks in a row. On Monday, the company quietly, officially unveiled Microsoft Ventures — a new arm that will focus on “Series A and beyond” investments in North America and Israel, with the first investments to be revealed in the coming weeks. If… Read More... →

TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s Machine Learning Demo Day this Thursday, June 2 from the Showbox SoDo in Seattle. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive 3 to 6-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scaling to global markets. There are seven accelerators located around the world… Read More... →

Российская визуальная SaaS-платформа для автоматизации процесса разработки и развертывания серверных приложений Last.Backend вышла на китайский рынок. Локализацию проекта выполнила компания i-Free China (китайское подразделение i-Free, одного из акционеров стартапа). Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Стартап является партнером Microsoft. Интегрирован с чатами Slack и HipChat. Работает с DigitalOcean, MS Azure и AWS. Last.Backend также получил правительственный грант программы по привлечению учёных и пред... →

Партнёр венчурного фонда Andreessen Horowitz и бывший руководитель подразделения Windows в корпорации Microsoft Стивен Синофски опубликовал в своём блоге на Medium заметку о том, как развитие технологий влияет на отрасль и делает провальные проекты прошлого успешными сейчас. По словам Синофски, разработчикам не стоит зацикливаться на неудачах прошлого — в том, что их идею не поняли 15 лет назад, зато оценили сейчас, сыграло роль появление новых технологий и изменение культурного контекста.Редакция vc.ru пуб... →