Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the third build of 2016. The release doesn’t include any new features, though it does have a few important fixes. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building Windows 10, this means Windows Insiders are […]... →

Microsoft today announced new capabilities of Office Online that show the company being more open to editing files stored in other cloud file storage systems. Now Office Online offers real-time coauthoring — allowing multiple people to work on documents and see each other’s activity at the same time — for documents living inside Box, Dropbox, […]... →

Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its Cloud Storage Partner Program (CSPP) and furthering integration with Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, Citrix and ShareFile. One new feature they are touting is “co-authoring” for Office Online, even if the documents are stored in the partner cloud services. This means that coworkers can collaborate on a document in real-time. Co-authoring is… Read More... →

TechCrunch is pleased to host the live video stream of the Microsoft Ventures London Accelerator demo day. Watch the presentations right here starting at 3:30p GMT. The event is private so this live stream is the only way for the general public to watch the event. Ten companies will take the stage and present their company to a group of investors. Microsoft Ventures launched in 2013 in a bid… Read More... →

Ситуация усугубилась тем, что Джо Бельфиоре также является «лицом» линейки смартфонов Windows Phone... →

AppDirect, the well-funded marketplace for selling cloud services, today announced that it has acquired the Montreal-based tech support company Radialpoint. Based on this acquisition, AppDirect also today announced the launch of a number of premium support options. These include premium support for Microsoft’s Office 365, as well as a cloud and IT helpdesk, and a new consumer… Read More... →

Microsoft today unveiled yet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launch of a news application that greatly resembles Apple’s own News application that comes built into iOS 9. Called “News Pro,” Microsoft’s app aims to offer readers a personalized experience by connecting them to articles that match their current interests, while also uncovering… Read More... →

With Azure Stack, Microsoft wants to bring its Azure cloud computing services into its customers’ data centers. Today, the company announced that it will launch the first technical preview of Azure Stack later this week on Friday, January 29. For now, this is a pretty limited version of Microsoft’s overall vision for Azure Stack. It’ll only support a single machine, for… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that on Friday, January 29, it will release the first technical preview of Azure Stack — a package of cloud-computing services that are similar to what’s available on the Microsoft Azure public cloud but are tuned to run on companies’ on-premises data center infrastructure. Microsoft first introduced Azure Stack in May 2015. […]... →

TechCrunch is pleased to host the live video stream of the Microsoft Ventures London Accelerator demo day. Watch the presentations right here starting at 3:30p GMT on January 27th. The event is private so this livestream is the only way for the general public to watch the event. Ten companies will take the stage and present their company to a group of investors. Microsoft Ventures launched in… Read More... →

Бизнес-консультант компаний Amazon, Microsoft, General Motors и основатель компании KISSmetrics Неил Патель дал советы в блоге компании Quick Sprout о том, как рассказывать о своем продукте в 15 разных форматах. Команда сервиса Relap.io разместила на своем сайте перевод материала. Редакция vc.ru публикует заметку с разрешения Relap.io.... →

Microsoft’s personal assistant tech Clippy Cortana is getting a few more feathers in its cap, with the company rolling out the ability to push reminders to users based on the contents of their email. Users of the Windows Insider early access program will get the feature first — followed in future, Microsoft said today, to all users of Windows 10. Read More... →

Microsoft’s smart digital assistant Cortana is getting a handful of new features from today, with those on the early-stage Windows Insider Program first to get a glimpse of the new tools. Cortana promises to get more intelligent over time as it learns a user’s individual preferences, and it has offered a range of location-based reminders […]... →

Microsoft is announcing today that it’s moving the repository for its Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) open-source deep learning software from Microsoft’s CodePlex source code repository hosting site to GitHub, a popular site for hosting open-source projects. In addition to migrating the project, Microsoft is also dropping the Microsoft Research License that’s been on it since […]... →

On Friday, CEO Ted Bailey of Dataminr swung by our temporary studio set-up in Davos, where Bailey appeared to having a highly productive trip. As he told us then, he’d already met Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, enjoyed a one-on-one dinner with Cisco’s legendary former CEO John Chambers, and was on his way to meet for the first time with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. While we had… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft has internally delayed its planned rollout of Windows 10 Mobile to current Windows Phone 8 handsets for another month, VentureBeat has learned — after shooting for a January release. News of the rescheduling was shared by email with the company’s partners. Also delayed is the second scheduled monthly service update for Lumia 950 and […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Kinvey, a startup that offers a mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) cloud that companies can use for building and running mobile apps, is today launching Rapid Connectors that can quickly and easily get data flowing from on-premises software from Microsoft into mobile apps. The new tools can work with SharePoint Server collaboration software and the SQL […]... →

Microsoft has now officially launched the 1TB versions of its Surface Book and Surface Pro 4, alongside a new gold version of its Surface Pen stylus. First announced back in October, Microsoft has generally received positive reviews for its first own-brand laptop, the Surface Book, and the latest version of its popular tablet, the Surface […]... →

Венчурный фонд Pulsar Venture Capital инвестировал в российский стартап AGELON — онлайн-конструктор маркетинговых исследований. Как сообщил Firrma представитель фонда, в планах AGELON – выход на международный рынок. Условия и сумма сделки не раскрывается. Ранее стартап получил инвестиции на сумму более $200 тысяч от Moscow Seed Fund и частного инвестора «Инновационная лаборатория». В августе 2015 года на GenerationS AGELON стал обладателем сертификата на «облачный грант» от Microsoft в размере $120 тысяч. В... →

Bing вносит изменения в поисковый алгоритм ежедневно, несколько раз в день. Об этом рассказал старший научный сотрудник компании Ян Педерсен (Jan Pedersen). Постоянный процесс обновления алгоритма призван улучшить результаты поиска и функционал поисковой системы. «Четыре года назад инженеры Bing внедряли новые функции один раз в месяц», - отметил Педерсен. «Однако сейчас изменения вносятся несколько раз в день». На сегодня в штате Bing трудится 600 инженеров – в шесть раз больше, чем в 2012 году. Перед з... →