Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Disrupt NY winner Beam gets acquired by Microsoft, study shows VR and exoskeletons can help paraplegics, soon even our tattoos will be smart, Facebook delivers the latest adblocker punch, and a new Star Wars Rogue One trailer. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Microsoft Flow, the company’s workflow management tool, has now arrived on Android. The app, a competitor of sorts of IFTTT and Zapier, offers an interface where you can mash up two or more services in order to create workflows – like getting a text when you receive an important email, or copying images from Instagram to Dropbox, saving a Twitter search to an Excel file, among… Read More... →

Тендер на модернизацию единой почтовой системы правительства Москвы выиграл Ростелеком... →

Your next tattoo could be functional as well as aesthetic. A new MIT Media Lab product called DuoSkin created in partnership with Microsoft Research turns temporary tattoos into connected interfaces, letting them act as input for smartphones or computers, display output based on changes in body temp and transmit data to other devices via NFC. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, PhD Student at the MIT Media… Read More... →

Minecraft in virtual reality: It’s a dream for fans of the immersive crafting and world building sim, and it’s going to be a reality for Oculus Rift owners starting next week. The VR version of the popular Microsoft-owned game was tipped for launch in “the next few weeks” on Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta late last month, and was supposed to arrive with the 0.15.6… Read More... →

David Sacks has pulled off a number of impressive feats during his career. Part of the early team at PayPal, where he was COO for several years, Sacks went on to create a couple of other software companies, including the family history site Geni, which was snapped up for undisclosed terms by rival MyHeritage in 2012, and the workplace chat service Yammer, scooped up by Microsoft for $1.2… Read More... →

Конкурс столичного департамента информационных технологий на модернизацию единой почтовой системы правительства Москвы (ЕПС ПМ) выиграл «Ростелеком». Госоператор предложил заменить почтовую систему Microsoft на продукт «МойОфис Почта», разработанный компанией «Новые облачные технологии», следует из документов тендера на сайте госзакупок.... →

5 минут в этой комнате едва не свели меня с ума... →

Эксперты агентства Good&Co выяснили, что сотрудники Microsoft так же изобретательны, как и в Apple, а работники Facebook менее креативные, чем в большинстве ведущих ИТ-корпораций. Об этом рассказало издание FastCompany.... →

The cloud services that Google uses to power its own services are second to none. But for the longest time, the company couldn’t get a foothold in the quickly growing cloud computing business while competitors like Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft Azure were growing rapidly. To right this ship, Google brought in Diane Greene by acquiring her startup BeBop Technologies for $348 million… Read More... →

Microsoft приобрела запущенный в 2016 году сервис для интерактивной трансляции игр Beam, который позволяет зрителям участвовать в игровом процессе. Об этом говорится в сообщении корпорации.... →

Rumor has it that Rackspace is about to get acquired, but that isn’t stopping the company from hosting a major customer event in San Francisco today. At the event, the company announced both a few milestones around its OpenStack deployments and that it is expanding its multi-cloud security services to Microsoft’s Azure cloud. While Rackspace also offers its own hosting and… Read More... →

Microsoft has acquired Beam, a Seattle-based interactive game streaming service that lets viewers play along with streamers as they watch. Beam’s model takes the mostly passive interaction that streaming fans may be used to from services like Twitch and YouTube, and adds the ability for viewers to interact with the streamer via crowdsourced controls. Players interacting through Beam… Read More... →

Microsoft looks to have inadvertently made some of its own orphaned devices useful again, after accidentally leaking a debug policy that could allow owners of Windows powered hardware such as earlier iterations of Windows Phones smartphones or ARM-powered Windows RT tablets to install alternative operating systems like Android and Linux. Read More... →

Российский инвестор Юрий Мильнер вошел в рейтинг Forbes «100 богатейших IT-миллиардеров» (The 100 Richest Tech Billionaries In The World In 2016). Он занял 73 место и стал единственным россиянином, кто попал в список. Его состояние Forbes оценил в $2,9 млрд. Первое место занял сооснователь компании Microsoft Билл Гейтс. Его состояние оценено в $78 млрд. Второе место у главы Amazon.com Джеффа Безоса, его состояние  - $66 млрд. На третьем месте – основатель Facebook Марк Цукерберг (оценка состояния — $54 млрд... →

As LinkedIn inches closer to completing its $26 billion acquisition by Microsoft, smaller rivals have stepped up their game building viable alternatives for those who might want more independent products when it comes to managing contacts in their professional networks. FullContact — one such competitor — has now raised a further $25 million. The funding brings the total… Read More... →

In April, Adobe expanded its Document Cloud service to add support for Box and Microsoft OneDrive, to complement its existing support for Dropbox. This allowed users to work with documents stored in other third-party services when using Adobe’s software, like Adobe Sign or Acrobat Reader, for example. However, that support hadn’t fully made its way to mobile – an issue Adobe… Read More... →

For a while, Google, Amazon and Microsoft were constantly undercutting each other’s cloud computing prices, but lately, it’s been pretty quiet on that front. Today, however, Google is firing a new salvo by reducing the price of its preemptible virtual machines (VMs) by up to 33 percent. Preemptible VMs are Google’s version of Amazon’s spot instances for AWS… Read More... →

Google объявил о покупке Orbitera – компании, которая разработала платформу для продажи и покупки облачных решений. Приобретение призвано усилить позиции интернет-корпорации в конкуренции с AWS, Salesforce и Microsoft. Orbitera помогает поставщикам программного обеспечения и системным интеграторам продавать и распространять уже готовые облачные решения и сервисы. Компания также облегчает крупным предприятиям и представителям малого и среднего […]... →

After the conclusion of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, I got a chance to talk to John Boyega, of Star Wars and Attack the Block fame — and erstwhile competition judge. We chatted about his relationship with technology, what he’d like to see people create, and yes, Pokémon GO. Read More... →