Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft acquired the cross-platform iOS, Android and OS X development service Xamarin last month and the new acquisition is already at the center of attention at Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference this week. As the company announced during today’s keynote, the core Xamarin tools are now available for free as part of the free Visual Studio Community edition and… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that Xamarin is now available for free for every Visual Studio user. This includes all editions of Visual Studio, including the free Visual Studio Community, Visual Studio Professional, and Visual Studio Enterprise. More specifically, Xamarin’s capabilities have been built into Visual Studio Community, Xamarin Studio for OS X is being made available […]... →

Microsoft’s Azure cloud services are growing at an increasing clip, and at the company’s Build conference today, it showed off some of the numbers it for the past year. At last year’s conference, Microsoft celebrated that it had 100k new Azure customer subscriptions per month, but it today revealed that the rate of growth has accelerated further, now topping 120k new… Read More... →

Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco this week and after focusing on Windows, Xbox, HoloLens, and Cortana yesterday, the company will shine the spotlight on its cloud and developer tools today. You can watch the live stream right here. Read More... →

Издание Bloomberg опубликовало заметку, в которой рассказало о том, каким видит будущее ботов корпорация Microsoft и почему руководство компании полагает, что в ближайшей перспективе именно эти технологии окажутся наиболее востребованными. Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод материала.... →

На конференции Build 2016 Microsoft анонсировал ряд новых функций голосового помощника Cortana. Они станут доступны после запуска «юбилейного обновления» Windows 10 этим летом. Грядущий апдейт сделает Cortana более проактивной. В течение дня голосовой помощник будет сам предлагать пользователям выполнить различные действия – купить обед или организовать поездку. Cortana также будет доступна поверх экрана блокировки, за счёт чего пользователи смогут сразу перейти к выполнению задачи, не тратя время на разбл... →

Microsoft встроит сервис для блокировки на сайтах в одну из грядущих версий браузера Edge, который является стандартным для операционной системы Windows 10, пишет ZDNet со ссылкой на представителей компании. Таким образом, Edge станет первым стандартным браузером для операционных систем, в котором будет встроен блокировщик рекламы.... →

Windows 10 is now running on over 270 million devices. That’s arguably the most impressive number that Microsoft shared today at its Build 2016 developer conference, especially as it means the company saw 70 million devices added since January. But neither then nor now, Microsoft did not share any updates about the number of apps […]... →

We’ve been at Microsoft’s Build conference all day, getting up close and personal with the latest and greatest from Microsoft. With announcements about Xbox, Cortana, Windows 10, new developer tools, the introduction of a Bash shell to Windows (!), cool new API tools for developers to use and much more, it has been a big day for Microsoft fans. The event wasn’t quite… Read More... →

As promised, Microsoft today started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits. In addition to sharing that bots are coming to the new platform, the company also released a HoloLens emulator, which lets developers test holographic apps on their PC without the need for a physical HoloLens. You can download the emulator now directly from here. […]... →

As promised, Microsoft today started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits. In addition to sharing that bots are coming to the new platform, the company also released a HoloLens emulator, which lets developers test holographic apps on their PC without the need for a physical HoloLens. You can download the emulator now directly from here. […]... →

Microsoft’s recently launched, A.I.-powered bot Tay may have embarrassed the company when Twitter users taught the machine how to be racist, but Microsoft hasn’t given up on the future of bot development. It’s just getting started. At Microsoft’s annual Build conference in San Francisco today, CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the company’s plans to bring the world of… Read More... →

Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, had a pretty tame keynote on the first day of Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco. He sometimes danced near controversy, emphasizing topics like privacy, but never challenged these issues head on. There were plenty of issues for Nadella to address. But he was either too polite to tackle […]... →

Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, had a pretty tame keynote on the first day of Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco. He sometimes danced near controversy, emphasizing topics like privacy, but he never challenged these issues head on. There were plenty of issues of the day for Nadella to address. But he was either […]... →

Most developers are not hesitating to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest graphics programming interface. DirectX 12 is the latest entry in Microsoft’s bundle of APIs (application programming interfaces) for getting the most out of visuals on Windows 10, and it has seen faster adoption among developers than any previous DirectX, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer. During […]... →

Most developers are not hesitating to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest graphics programming interface. DirectX 12 is the latest entry in Microsoft’s bundle of APIs (application programming interfaces) for getting the most out of visuals on Windows 10, and it has seen faster adoption among developers than any previous DirectX, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer. During […]... →

30 марта 2016 года на ежегодной конференции разработчиков Build корпорация Microsoft представила платформу Skype Bot Platform, позволяющую компаниям создавать текстовых и видеоботов для мессенджера.... →

The power of the cloud is a bit fuzzy to most of us, but Microsoft wants to improve that by giving developers a series of API tools it has dubbed Cognitive Services to make their software far smarter, including tools for trainable speech-to-text processing and a whole new grade of object recognition. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced updates to its portfolio of machine learning tools. Until now they have fallen under the Project Oxford name, but now they are being rebranded to Microsoft Cognitive Services. The Project Oxford website now redirects to the new Cognitive Services website. In total there are 22 APIs available in Cognitive Services now, said […]... →

Microsoft today announced updates to its portfolio of machine learning tools. Until now they have fallen under the Project Oxford name, but now they are being rebranded to Microsoft Cognitive Services. The Project Oxford website now redirects to the new Cognitive Services website. In total there are 22 APIs available in Cognitive Services now, said […]... →