Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

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В российском финале международного конкурса технологических проектов Imagine Cup 2016 объявлены победители в трех категориях: «Инновации», «Социальные проекты» и «Игры». Всего в финал конкурса было подано 200 заявок, из которых было представлено 20 команд. В категории «Инновации» победил смоленский проект Women’s Health, который использует смартфон и носимый датчик температуры для отслеживания параметров женского здоровья и репродуктивных циклов.  Второе место досталось московской команде Yado  – социальная... →

Без «помощи» Еврокомиссии Microsoft зарабатывал на классическом Android и поддерживал «собственный» Cyanogen, поэтому потеря интереса к проблемам «Яндекса» на Android выглядит логично.... →

It’s going to be a good Friday for those testing the latest releases of the Windows 10 operating system, as Microsoft is today rolling out a new build of its PC and mobile OS which will allow users to try the newly announced Windows Ink experience for the first time. Windows Ink, announced at the Build 2016 event last month, offers improved pen support for Windows 10 PCs, including… Read More... →

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... →

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.... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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... →

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.... →

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 […]... →

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... →

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 […]... →

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

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... →

(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 […]... →

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... →