Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

AMSTERDAM — That supercomputer in your pocket will soon make Sony’s and Microsoft’s latest home gaming consoles look old and crusty. ARM, the technology design company responsible for the chip architecture in mobile devices, is preparing for another big leap in computational power for smartphones and tablets. At the Casual Connect conference in Amsterdam this week, ARM […]... →

Posted by ksalehWhy do people buy what they buy? Businesses and psychologists have been trying to answer this question for years. Turns out, one big driver for purchasing decisions is social proof. Social proof serves as validation of a product’s quality or value for money. If many people like a product, your customers will assume that it must be good.Savvy e-commerce store owners can increase conversion rates dramatically by leveraging social proof. What is social proof and how can you use it effectively?A... →

Skype for iOS now sports native support for Microsoft Office documents, meaning you can Available in both the iPhone and iPad apps, the Office integration is a natural extension to the existing tie-up between Skype and Office that gives you free video- and voice-calls in Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint. So you could already see […]... →

Mobile messaging giant Line has announced that it’s shuttering MixRadio, the music-streaming service it acquired from Microsoft 14 months ago. MixRadio was initially developed by Nokia way back in 2007, though it has been known under various names over the years, such as Nokia Music and Nokia MixRadio. The service was taken over as part […]... →

Messaging app firm Line bought MixRadio from Microsoft in December 2014 and now, just over a year later, it is closing the music streaming service down after deeming that its business isn’t financially viable. Read More... →

Hulu’s streaming service was already available on nearly all major platforms, including desktop, mobile, tablet, gaming consoles and other TV-connected devices. However, it was lacking support for one major computing platform: Windows 10. That changes today, as Microsoft and Hulu announce a new version of Hulu application, which includes Windows 10 specific features like Live Tiles… Read More... →

Microsoft unveiled its first Lumia phones running Windows 10 back in October, and today it offered up a third and much cheaper variant. Read More... →

Microsoft has launched a new Lumia-branded Windows 10 Mobile smartphone, representing only the fourth device to sport the operating system anywhere in the world. Costing $199 before local taxes and subsidies, the Lumia 650 is available in black or white, and will only be made available in a handful of European markets from February 18. […]... →

GUEST: Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise. The truth is that innovation in this domain, as in all technological domains, follows a predictable cycle and goes […]... →

Microsoft has patented a “modular computing device” that would enable people to put together the exact PC components they want, which would allow for replacement of certain parts rather than force people to buy entire new computers when they want upgrades. Microsoft applied for the patent in July 2015, and it was published earlier this […]... →

Even Microsoft’s new image recognition app has no idea what kind of dog I have. Oh well! If you don’t own a mixed-breed mutt saved from the kill shelter, however, you might have fun with the company’s latest Microsoft Garage project: Fetch!, a new iPhone app that looks at photos of dogs to identify its breed. Or, in the case when it can’t make an exact match, the app… Read More... →

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Posted by randfishIt's probably crossed your mind before. Should you optimize for your competitors' branded keywords? How would you even go about it effectively? Well, in today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains some carefully strategic and smart ways to optimize for the keywords of a competitor — from determining their worthiness, to properly targeting your funnel, to using third-party hosted content for maximum amplification. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new t... →

PlayStation 4 is a dominant sales force, but that doesn’t mean that Microsoft’s console is withering and dying. For every $1 that the average PlayStation 4 owner spent on Ubisoft games in the French publisher’s fiscal third quarter, the average Xbox One gamer spent $1.25 on the same products. This means Ubisoft is seeing a […]... →

Microsoft is giving all sort of goodies to anyone who buys the digital version of Quantum Break, a third-person shooter that allows the player to manipulate time. Digitally preordering the title for Xbox One so will give you a free copy of the PC version of the game. Microsoft also revealed that the PC version […]... →

The classic game Canabalt was originally a Flash game, but it was successful enough that it ended up being ported to the iPhone (Apple’s App Store). The iOS game was open-sourced on GitHub, and now it’s being used to showcase Microsoft’s tools for porting iOS code to the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). David Burela is […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it now has 74 hardware makers in 25 countries that are pre-installing, or will pre-install, Microsoft apps on its Android phones. Apps included in this arrangement include Word, Excel, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Skype, Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s original equipment manufacturer division, wrote in a blog post. […]... →

Microsoft today announced that Skype will be releasing 10 new Mojis — short, small video clips featuring audio — packing musical snippets from former Beatles band member Paul McCartney. This builds on Skype’s introduction of Mojis in September, for which it relied on content from partners like BBC, The Muppets, and Universal Studios. Some of […]... →

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Microsoft today confirmed that it did in fact acquire Groove music app that was available on iOS from the startup Zikera. The news comes several months after Microsoft somewhat mysteriously changed the name of the Xbox Music app to Groove. “Microsoft acquired Zikera’s Groove music app. We have nothing more to share,” a Microsoft spokesperson […]... →