Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft technical evangelist Bruce Harris has unveiled new details for Microsoft’s augmented reality headset HoloLens. At an event in Tel Aviv, Harris was recorded (via Petri) saying that that any universal Windows 10 app will run natively on the device, as we’ve already heard, and that developers will naturally need to create 3D apps to […]... →

Microsoft today announced updates to its support policy for Windows on certain types of computer processors. The changes show Microsoft wanting Windows 10 to be running on the latest silicon. The news is particularly important to Microsoft’s longtime partner Intel. The 14-nanometer Intel Core sixth-generation chips codenamed Skylake first showed up on the market last […]... →

Технологические компании не думали об остальном мире, когда разрабатывали компьютеры, операционные системы и приложения. Но нигде это не ощущалась острее, чем в СССР.... →

Microsoft в очередной раз обновил дизайн логотипа собственной поисковой системы Bing. В новом варианте прописную «В» в названии изменили на заглавную, а цвет – с жёлтого на зеленовато-синий. «Bing – успешный самостоятельный бизнес и ключевой компонент многих сервисов внутри и за пределами Microsoft. Нам кажется, что пришло время освежить его логотип», - прокомментировал обновление пресс-секретарь компании. По его словам, цвет морской волны отлично сочетается с интерфейсом Windows. Вице-президент Microsoft ... →

Microsoft today announced price cuts for some of its Azure public cloud instances. The move is not surprising as it lines up with Microsoft’s assurance to customers in 2013 that it would match Azure’s prices with that that of public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services, and AWS announced price cuts last week. Azure’s D-Series […]... →

Sony Computer Entertainment ended 2015 with a strong sales performance. The PlayStation 4 once again outsold Microsoft’s Xbox One console at U.S. retailers, according to data from industry-tracking firm The NPD Group provided to GamesBeat by Sony. This means the PS4 was the top-selling home console for the two biggest months of the year after […]... →

Microsoft has long said it would match AWS’s prices for compute, storage and bandwidth. Earlier this month, Amazon dropped the price of some of its general purpose, compute- and memory-optimized EC2 machines. It doesn’t come as a major surprise then that Microsoft is now also dropping the prices for some of its virtual machines by between 10 and 17 percent. Microsoft’s… Read More... →

Hardware is going through the first phase of a shift from desktops and smartphones to, maybe, virtual and augmented reality. And Microsoft wants to help developers get involved as soon as possible. With the goal of bringing in more developers to work on its augmented reality HoloLens headset, Microsoft has a new video that should […]... →

When something happens like I don’t know…Xbox Live going down, what do you do? A lot of us run to Twitter to complain about it. Not because our complaints will be heard, but because hot damn sometimes it just feels good. Today, one Xbox Live user was particularly miffed. His name happens to be Snoop Dogg. He had a message for Xbox, the Live team, EA sports, Microsoft’s… Read More... →

As promised, Microsoft has open-sourced the core components of Chakra, the company’s JavaScript engine that’s used in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. The project, dubbed ChakraCore, has been released on GitHub. Aside from powering Microsoft’s browsers, Chakra also helps power Azure DocumentDB, Cortana, Outlook.com, TypeScript, Node.js in Windows 10 IoT Core, as well as universal […]... →

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the first build of 2016. The main focus of this build is structural improvements to OneCore, the shared core of Windows across devices. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building Windows 10, this means […]... →

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired the management, reporting, and analytics technology from Event Zero, a management software provider for its Skype for Business offering. The move is said to enable Microsoft to “expand and improve the built-in management tools for Skype for Business.” Although Event Zero’s technology was picked up, the company will still […]... →

Following yesterday’s news of its planned support for group calling on mobile, Skype just launched an integration with Microsoft’s mobile email and calendar application, Outlook. In the updated iOS app, a new setting allows you to turn on a “Skype Meeting” option when you’re either creating or editing an event within Outlook. By doing so, Outlook… Read More... →

Millions of software engineers are caged. Their talent remains unseen behind the iron bars of the misconception of a shortage of software engineers. An estimated one million technology jobs will go unfilled by 2020, according to a report put forth by Microsoft in 2012. Publications like The Wall Street Journal and even the White House repeatedly cite this projection, ringing a nationwide… Read More... →

Microsoft-owned online voice and video calling service Skype is announcing today that in the next few weeks it will be rolling out video calls for multiple people on iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows 10 Mobile. It’s a feature that The feature, announced today in a Skype blog post, comes as Skype celebrates 10 years of free […]... →

Microsoft today ended support for old versions of Internet Explorer, including IE8, IE9, and IE10, as well as Windows 8. For the browsers, the company has also released a final patch (KB3123303) that includes the latest cumulative security updates and an “End of Life” upgrade notification. Microsoft announced the old IE version cutoff date back […]... →

Microsoft’s push towards Windows 10 continues. Today, Microsoft is ending support for Windows 8, as well as older versions of its Internet Explorer web browser, IE 8, IE 9, and IE 10. For end users, that doesn’t mean the software instantly becomes non-functional, but that it will longer be updated with bug fixes or other security patches, as needed. That  could potentially… Read More... →

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Want to test your Internet connection? Chances are your flow is something like this: Fire up Google, type in something like “speed test,” pick speedtest.net or some other equivalent from the search results, and off you go. Microsoft wants to cut that down those last few steps, at least for Bing users. The company is […]... →

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo don’t really show up at CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, last week. But CleverPet has stepped into the breach with a video game console — for dogs. Yep. The CleverPet Hub is designed to get dogs more active. Instead of just getting their treats or meals served […]... →