Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft начал работать с ресурсом для программистов HackerRanker над добавлением фрагментов кода в результаты поиска Bing. Результатом сотрудничества станет не только возможность поиска фрагментов кода через Bing, но и редактирования и исполнения кода прямо со страницы поисковой выдачи. Сооснователь HackerRanker Вивек Рависанкар (Vivek Ravisankar) в разговоре с TechCrunch рассказал, что результаты поиска Bing будут возвращать более 80 фрагментов кода, выбранных на основании наиболее популярных поисковых... →

HTC announced details of how it will roll out the HTC Vive virtual reality headset to retailers. HTC said that the new VR product — which lets you immerse yourself in a virtual environment — will debut in Microsoft Stores and GameStop locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. That information will no doubt spread fast […]... →

Microsoft today announced that its Microsoft Translator app for iOS devices can now translate text and images from one language to another even when you’re offline. The app already supported this functionality on Android, and the competing Google Translate for Android could work offline, too. But in this case, Microsoft has beat Google to the […]... →

(Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google unit is mulling a bid for Yahoo’s core business, Bloomberg reported, citing a source. Verizon, which has been rumored to consider bidding for Yahoo, plans to make a first-round bid for the Internet giant’s web business next week, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. (http://bloom.bg/1qwx1W3) AT&T, Comcast and Microsoft are […]... →

Microsoft continues to unveil features coming to as part of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, slated for this summer. The latest one is an update to how Microsoft Edge handles Flash content, following in Google Chrome’s footsteps. Google and Adobe worked for a long time last year to automatically pause less important Flash content (like […]... →

Sooner or later, every programmer ends up searching for code snippets and algorithms. Most search engines, though, don’t exactly specialize in code search and so you end up with a couple of links (one of them most likely to StackOverflow). Now, Microsoft has partnered with HackerRank to bring code snippets right into its Bing search results pages — and as an added twist, you can… Read More... →

Microsoft today released its first standalone keyboard application for iOS users. No, it’s not the rumored version of its Windows Phone keyboard that’s being ported to the iPhone – it’s an iOS version of the Microsoft Hub keyboard, which hit Android this February. Like the prior release, the iOS Hub keyboard lets you quickly share Office documents and those stored in… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it’s enhancing the Outlook app for iOS and Android with the ability to flesh out your calendar with to-do items from Microsoft-owned Wunderlist, events from Facebook, and notes from Evernote. The addition is coming by way of an Outlook feature called Calendar Apps. You can access it by swiping right from […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it’s enhancing the Outlook app for iOS and Android with the ability to flesh out your calendar with to-do items from Microsoft-owned Wunderlist, events from Facebook, and notes from Evernote. The addition is coming by way of an Outlook feature called Calendar Apps. You can access it by swiping right from […]... →

Two months after being bought out by Microsoft, smart keyboard app company SwiftKey has launched a new app designed to help you type like William Shakespeare. ShakeSpeak for Android represents one of SwiftKey’s many experimental apps — part fun and part a show of technology. Timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, […]... →

Two months after being bought out by Microsoft, smart keyboard app company SwiftKey has launched a new app designed to help you type like William Shakespeare. ShakeSpeak for Android represents one of SwiftKey’s many experimental apps — part fun, and part a show of technology. Timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, […]... →

We are in a world where high-end consumer virtual reality devices are shipping to people around the globe, but Microsoft is already preparing for the next era of computing. HoloLens is one of Microsoft’s new key products, and the company has a lot to say about what it means for the future and for its […]... →

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs. This is the first build released since Build 2016, where the company announced the the Windows 10 Anniversary Update coming this summer. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building Windows 10, this means Windows […]... →

As Microsoft works its way toward implementing the security plan that CEO Satya Nadella outlined in a talk last Fall in DC, part of that has been creating tools and part buying them. Today, it announced that Adallom, a company it bought last year was becoming generally available and renamed Microsoft Cloud App Security. While the new name lacks the pizazz of the original, it does convey… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that its Cloud App Security service, based on technology from its 2015 Adallom acquisition, is now generally available for anyone to use. The company announced in February that this tool would be coming, and now it’s here. “The solution provides a set of capabilities to help companies design and enforce a process […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it’s releasing a 64-bit (x64) version of Windows 10 IoT Core Pro, a special flavor of the edition of Windows 10 designed for small Internet-connected devices that’s exclusively available to original equipment manufacturers (OEM). “This will enable OEM/ODMs (original design manufacturers) to move between Windows 10 IoT Core and Windows 10 […]... →

GUEST: In the midst of the Apple-FBI dispute over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, countless tech companies took the rare step of publicizing views in “friends of the court” briefs, statements, and interviews. The sheer number, nearly 40, filing amicus briefs — Facebook, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft, as well as my own company, AVG — is […]... →

We’ve known for a long time that Microsoft’s Surface team is toying with the idea of building a premium smartphone. The latest rumor claimed such a device would arrive in the second half of 2016, but that timeframe has reportedly been pushed back to early 2017. This tidbit comes from sources close to Microsoft’s plans […]... →

Microsoft today announced the launch of Open Translators to Things, a new project where people will collaborate on translators that will make it easy for many developers to build applications that interact with many different kinds of Internet-connected devices. This software is based in the Node.js server-side JavaScript framework, and it’s intended to run from […]... →

NASA has collaborated with Microsoft to create a new mixed-reality exhibit known as “Destination: Mars“, allowing the public to explore the red planet with holographic tour guides. The exhibit will open this summer in Florida at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Featuring the second person on the moon, Dr. Buzz Aldrin, and guided by Curiosity Mars Rover driver… Read More... →