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23:15 21.04.2016

Microsoft’s Q3 misses with EPS of $0.62, revenue in line at $22.1B

Microsoft today announced earnings for its third financial quarter of 2016. The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $22.1 billion for the last quarter and $0.62 of adjusted earnings per share (EPS) and $0.47 GAAP EPS. Wall Street expected Microsoft to report an EPS of $0.64 on revenue of just under $22.1 billion. Microsoft’s own guidance for the quarter was for revenue to be… Read More... →

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17:44 21.04.2016

Настоящее и будущее виртуальной реальности: Чем занимаются Magic Leap, Microsoft и другие компании

Бывший главный редактор издания Wired Кевин Келли опубликовал материал, посвящённый устройствам виртуальной и дополненной реальности и одному из самых загадочных стартапов Кремниевой долины — Magic Leap. Келли порассуждал о том, в каком состоянии находится индустрия, каковы её перспективы и какие вопросы стоят перед предпринимателями в этой отрасли.Редакция vc.ru выбрала наиболее интересные моменты из материала.... →

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19:19 19.04.2016

Skype’s new bots arrive on Mac and web

At Microsoft’s annual BUILD conference in March, the company announced its plans to bring bots to Skype and other communications platforms, including Slack, Outlook, LINE, and elsewhere. Today, the company says Skype bots have rolled out in “preview” to two additional platforms: Mac and Skype on the web. The bots were already live on mobile, including iPhone, iPad and… Read More... →

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11:00 19.04.2016

Microsoft’s Azure Container Service is now generally available

Azure Container Service, Microsoft’s container scheduling and orchestration service for its Azure cloud computing service, is now generally available. The service, which allows its users to choose either Mesosphere’s Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) or Docker’s Swarm and Compose to deploy and orchestrate their containers, was first announced in September 2015 and hit… Read More... →

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01:30 19.04.2016

As VCs enroll the startup class of 2016 its RIP for ‘me too’ companies

Many of the world’s legendary tech companies got started just as the public markets were cooling off; Microsoft, Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle, FedEx, etc. The most recent case in point is the startup class of 2008 – 2009: Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber and Tiny Speck (Slack) all got their early funding in those dismal years. And, while not everyone agrees that there is a massive… Read More... →

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01:14 19.04.2016

Longtime Facebook VP Mike Vernal Joins Sequoia Capital

Mike Vernal, a Facebook VP who has spent the last eight-plus years at the company, most recently leading its search, profile, local, and developer platform product groups, is leaving the company to become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Before joining Facebook, Vernal spent nearly six years at Microsoft, first as a product manager as later as a development lead. The Harvard grad… Read More... →

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05:00 16.04.2016

Artificial intelligence and racism

AI is here — although Microsoft’s blunder with Tay, the “teenaged girl AI” embodied by a Twitter account who “turned racist” shows that we obviously still have a long ways to go. The pace of advancement, mixed with our general lack of knowledge in the realm of artificial intelligence, has spurred many to chime in on the emerging topic of AI and ethics.… Read More... →

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18:12 15.04.2016

Skype video calls now work plugin-free on Microsoft’s Edge browser

Microsoft is making Skype in the browser plugin-free, the company announced this morning. But before you get too excited, be aware that this new experience only works in Microsoft Edge for now. Other browsers, including IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, will continue to require plugins as before. Skype for Web, the browser-based version of the online communications software rolled out publicly… Read More... →

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17:59 15.04.2016

17 типичных ошибок начинающих руководителей — Опыт евангелиста Microsoft в России

Александр Ложечкин, отвечающий в Microsoft за технический «евангелизм» в Центральной и Восточной Европе, в своем блоге на Medium составил список ошибок, которые делают недавно назначенные руководители, и дополнил их примерами из своей практики.... →

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17:35 15.04.2016

Microsoft rolls out preview of plugin-free Skype for Web support in Edge

Microsoft today launched a preview of plugin-free Skype calls in Microsoft Edge. The new functionality works anywhere you can use Skype in the browser: Skype for Web, Outlook.com, Office Online, and OneDrive. Both voice and video calls are supported, including one-to-one and group sessions. This is possible because Edge last year gained support for the […]... →

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12:58 15.04.2016

Twitter names its first managing director for China to find advertisers beyond the Great Firewall

Twitter has appointed its first managing director for China. A former general manager at Microsoft and Cisco, Kathy Chen will reach out to companies who can use Twitter to reach international audiences, even though the service is blocked by the Great Firewall. Read More... →

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00:08 15.04.2016

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 Mobile preview with Cortana, Edge, and lock screen improvements

Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today. The latest build includes improvements to the Action Center, notifications, Cortana, Settings, emoji, Edge, and the Lock screen. Like the last mobile build, this one is only available for devices that shipped with Windows 10 Mobile (the Lumia 950, 950 XL, 650, 550, Xiaomi Mi4, and […]... →

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20:50 14.04.2016

Microsoft представила собственную клавиатуру для iOS с функцией набора одной рукой

Microsoft представила собственную клавиатуру для iOS, бета-тест которой начнётся в ближайшее время. Об этом сообщает The Verge.... →

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20:09 14.04.2016

Microsoft sues Justice Department for transparency in government data searches

Microsoft sued the Justice Department today, challenging the constitutionality of the gag orders issued by the government that prevent tech companies from informing their customers when their data is accessed as part of an investigation. The suit challenges a provision in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that allows courts to force Microsoft and other companies that offer… Read More... →

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19:22 14.04.2016

Microsoft sues U.S. government over law banning tech firms from telling customers about search warrants

(By Sarah McBride, Reuters) — Microsoft Corp has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in the Western District […]... →

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19:00 14.04.2016

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code for Windows, OS X and Linux hits 1.0

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Microsoft’s cross-platform text editor for developers, hit version 1.0 today after about a year in beta. The company says more than 500,000 developers now actively use the application each month. The launch of VS Code came as quite a surprise when the company first announced it at its Build developer conference last year. Microsoft, after all, had never… Read More... →

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19:00 14.04.2016

Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code 1.0 as the code editor passes 500,000 monthly active users

Microsoft today is announcing the release of version 1.0 of its open-source Visual Studio Code editor. The cross-platform application now has more than 500,000 monthly active users, after launching last year. More than 1,000 extensions have become available for Visual Studio Code since Microsoft introduced extensibility in November, when it became available on GitHub under […]... →

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18:45 14.04.2016

Minecraft Education Edition, aimed at teachers, arrives in May

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was expanding its investment in Minecraft, the popular game it acquired for $2.5 billion in 2014, by building out a new version that would allow teachers to use Minecraft in the classroom. Today, Microsoft announced that “Minecraft Education Edition,” as this version is called, will become available in beta format starting in… Read More... →

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17:04 14.04.2016

Microsoft to open Minecraft education edition for all schools in June, free on the early access program

Among a handful of announcements Microsoft made today — designed to make Windows a core facet of the classroom — the company provided more details on the Minecraft: Education Edition, which it first teased back in January. Beginning in June, any school will be able to access the new Minecraft, which is tailor-made for teaching kids things […]... →

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17:00 14.04.2016

Microsoft is bringing automatic video summarization, Hyperlapse, OCR and more to Azure Media Services

Azure Media Services, Microsoft’s collection of cloud-based tools for video workflows, is about to get a lot smarter. As the company announced at the annual NAB show in Las Vegas today, Media Services will now make use of some of the tools Microsoft developed for its machine learning services for video, as well. This means Media Services can now automatically select the most… Read More... →

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