Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

"Мы сами себе устанавливали стандарты использования зарубежных продуктов", — вспомнил прошлое, в прошлом сторонник соглашения с Microsoft, Николай Никифоров.... →

Microsoft announced today that it will shut down MSN China, its web portal for China, early next month. Read More... →

Издание Business Insider опубликовало подборку из 12 проектов Google, Facebook, Microsoft и других компаний, которые в ближайшем будущем могут существенно изменить устройство жизни людей.... →

Pivotal has a couple of new friends with big wallets. Today it announced that Ford and Microsoft were joining EMC, VMware and GE as investment partners on a massive $253 million Series C investment with a whopping $2.8 billion valuation. It’s not a coincidence that Pivotal has been working closely with Ford over the last year to help it in its own transformation from a car company to… Read More... →

Posted by purna_v[Estimated read time: 13 minutes] Disappointingly, this isn’t one of those doom-and-gloom articles proclaiming that SEO/PPC is dead. Instead, we’ll look at how voice search will shake things up for us digital marketers and examine all the wonderful things that can come from it. But first, here’s a question for you. If you wanted to find out who Microsoft’s current CEO is, what would you search for if…. a) You were on your computer and typed in your search phrase? OR b) You were talking into... →

Эксперты по безопасности из компании Hold Security сообщили Reuters о появлении в сети базы данных с информацией о 272,3 млн аккаунтов на сервисах Mail.Ru Group, Yahoo и Microsoft. Большая часть (около 57 млн аккантов) принадлежит сервисам Mail.Ru Group, пишет агентство.... →

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Solair, an Italy-based IoT service that was founded in 2011 (and not the U.S.-based company that makes retractable awnings). Solair already used Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform to offer its services, so it’s no surprise that Microsoft plans to integrate its technology into the Azure IoT Suite. For now, though,… Read More... →

The next version of SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship database product, will launch on June 1, the company announced today. The release follows Microsoft’s usual round of public previews and release candidates since the company first announced this update in 2015. Maybe the biggest difference between this release cycle and others is that the company first tested many of the new… Read More... →

Microsoft announced how Cortona, Microsoft Bing's personal voice search assistant, will only work with Microsoft Edge in Windows 10...... →

This election cycle, the tech elite are almost exclusively backing liberals: Tesla’s Elon Musk donated to Hillary Clinton, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gave handsomely to the San Francisco Democratic Party organization, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates gave to three Democratic congressmen. Though often seen as a libertarian stronghold, no household Silicon Valley names publicly… Read More... →

Microsoft PowerApps allows anybody to build basic business apps without having to touch any code. These apps can run on the web and on mobile (through the PowerApps apps for iOS and Android). Microsoft first announced a private preview of this project last November but starting today, it’s open for anybody who wants to give it a try. Building apps in PowerApps is mostly a… Read More... →

Разбираем программы поддержки молодых компаний от гиганта ИТ-отрасли... →

Cortana is Microsoft’s version of Google Now and Apple’s Siri digital assistant. It’s built right into Windows 10 and, while I’ve generally not found it all that useful, it’s a core component of Microsoft’s attempt at making its operating system smarter. Starting today, whenever you use Cortana to do a search on Windows 10 that would typically take you to… Read More... →

The just announced HP Chromebook 13 is a new take on the hardware side of Chrome OS — a premium system, with some specs reminiscent of Chrome OS laptops, but with the ultrabook spice seen on the market from Apple and Microsoft. Its construction consists of pressed aluminum frame with plastic accents and keys, and definitely comes across as a more premium product than the everyday… Read More... →

Xamarin, the cross-platform development platform Microsoft recently acquired, is holding its annual developer conference today. No developer conference would be complete without a large number of announcements and Xamarin — almost as if to show that the Microsoft acquisition hasn’t stalled its momentum — is launching updates to almost all of the core features of its… Read More... →

«Если вы постоянно вертитесь в этой индустрии, то хотите вы того или нет, но начинаете замечать определённые тренды и тенденции. Мне кажется, что за виртуальной реальностью кроется действительно огромный потенциал» — слова создателя игр Doom и Quake, а также сооснователя Oculus VR Джона Кармака, как нельзя лучше описывают будущее виртуальной реальности.Эксперты считают, что к 2020 году индустрия виртуальной реальности будет оцениваться в $30 млрд и сейчас VR движется туда огромными шагами. При поддержке ком... →

Twist Bioscience, a startup making and using synthetic DNA to store digital data, just struck a contract with Microsoft and the University of Washington to encode vast amounts of information on synthetic genes. Big data means business and the company able to gather a lot of it is very valuable to investors and stockholders. But that data needs to be stored somewhere and can cost a lot for… Read More... →

Соучредитель Microsoft поделился мыслями об образовательном потенциале чат-ботов... →

Microsoft announced this morning the launch of Skype for Business for Mac Preview  – the business-focused version of Skype’s communications services aimed at a commercial client base. I.T. administrators and individuals can sign up to test the new desktop software, which introduces features like Outlook integration, additional security, and calls that allow for up to 250 people… Read More... →

There are dozens of task-management and to-do apps in the market today, with some like Any.do, Wunderlist (now owned by Microsoft) and Todoist already used by tens of millions of people to organise their lives and coordinate that with people they know. Now, make way for a new one called WeDo, whose developers believe it can do things better for a wider market of people. Launching… Read More... →