Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft today launched a dedicated page for keeping track of Windows 10’s release notes. To see the latest features, improvements, and changes the company has pushed, you can now just visit Windows 10 update history. “After listening to feedback regarding the level of disclosure for Windows 10 updates, we decided to implement a new system […]... →

Publisher Ubisoft is doing one more big test for its online shooter before releasing the final product on the world next month. Tom Clancy’s The Division is getting an open beta test that will launch February 18 for Microsoft’s Xbox One. PlayStation 4 and PC players will get access beginning February 19. This trial period, […]... →

Советник президента крайне недоволен поддержкой санкций против России со стороны Microsoft и Google

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На сайте BeardyCast 4 февраля вышла публикация, посвященная тест-драйву смартфонов Microsoft Lumia. В ней, в частности, говорилось о жестких условиях акции: в случае невозврата устройства после тестирования участник обязан возместить полную стоимость смартфона, а также выплатить штраф в размере, равном его десятикратной стоимости. Эта информация расходится с правилами акции, в которых сказано только о возмещении стоимости гаджета.... →

I am playing Red Dead Redemption on my Xbox One right now. Microsoft has made the Rockstar Western playable on its newest console using its Xbox 360 backward compatibility feature. You can download the game now if you own it digitally (disc doesn’t work yet), and if you jump through a few hoops. Red Dead Redemption […]... →

Microsoft, though its Microsoft Licensing LLC, and GoPro today announced that they have signed a collaborative patent licensing deal for “certain file storage and other system technologies.” “This agreement with GoPro shows the incredible breadth of technology sharing enabled through patent transactions,” said Nick Psyhogeos, president of Microsoft Technology Licensing,… Read More... →

Сергей Васильев, председатель совета директоров «Русских фондов», написал о современно украинском интернет-рынке.  У любого рынка есть костяк, его хребет и скелет. Обычно это – лидеры рынка, которые собирают основную прибыль. Эта прибыль и является источником основного роста. Кто делает основные сделки и покупки в американском интернете?  Это, прежде всего, его основные игроки: Google, Microsoft, Facebook и другие. Они делают и многомиллиардные сделки и покупки поменьше. Они формирует культуру рынка, задают... →

ANALYSIS: The mobile landscape is littered with manufacturers who lost their way, from Palm to BlackBerry to HTC to Danger.... →

Microsoft’s Bing is trying to carve out a niche for itself on mobile by focusing on the types of common searches and information requests people need to access while on the go. To that end, the company this week rolled out new iOS and Android applications with features like a barcode scanner for price comparisons, a tool to find the cheapest nearby gas prices, and, on iOS to start, a… Read More... →

Один из трёх соучредителей компании SwiftKey Крис Хилл-Скотт обменял свою долю на велосипед спустя несколько месяцев после запуска сервиса в 2008 году. 3 февраля 2016 года стало известно, что компанию купила корпорация Microsoft за $250 млн. Разработчик мог заработать на этой сделке $36 млн, пишет The Guardian.... →

Every few months, Microsoft shares Windows Store numbers to help developers figure out what is worth investing their time and energy into. Today, the company unveiled the latest numbers, and for the first time disclosed downloads across all Windows devices and operating systems by category. The conclusion? Unsurprisingly, games dominate. Microsoft also shared that over […]... →

TechCrunch is pleased to host the live video stream of the Microsoft Ventures Tel Aviv Accelerator demo day. Watch the presentations right here starting at 4:00 PM 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… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that its Azure IoT Hub — a cloud service for registering, managing, and communicating with Internet-connected devices — will become generally available tomorrow, February 4. Azure IoT Hub is a big part of Azure IoT Suite, a bundle of products that can be used to build and run applications that integrate with […]... →

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the fourth build of 2016. The release doesn’t include any new features, once again, but the company did give testers a bunch of ninja monkey wallpapers isntead. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building […]... →

Posted by EricEngeMachine learning is already a very big deal. It's here, and it's in use in far more businesses than you might suspect. A few months back, I decided to take a deep dive into this topic to learn more about it. In today's post, I'll dive into a certain amount of technical detail about how it works, but I also plan to discuss its practical impact on SEO and digital marketing. For reference, check out Rand Fishkin's presentation about how we've entered into a two-algorithm world. Rand addresses... →

Cisco today announced plans to acquire Jasper Technologies, a company that offers a cloud service for managing Internet-connected devices, for a total of $1.4 billion. The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a hot area for cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Intel, IBM, and other companies have initiatives in […]... →

Microsoft today shared details about some of the features it is working on for its Edge browser this year. The news focuses on developers, but a lot of what was unveiled also naturally trickles down to the user. Because this is a developer update, Microsoft naturally talks about EdgeHTML, the browser’s rendering engine. Edge and […]... →

GUEST: Congratulations to co-founders Ben Medlock, Jon Reynolds and the entire SwiftKey team — makers of the world’s smartest mobile keyboard application – on their acquisition by Microsoft. Rise of AI and natural language processing (NLP) in software SwiftKey represents a new wave of mobile-first, artificial intelligence-enabled productivity software that will impact nearly every incumbent in the field. We’re […]... →

Another European startup exits to an American tech giant. Predictive keyboard app maker SwiftKey, based in London, confirmed today it has sold to Microsoft. Sources put a price-tag of $250 million on the deal, although neither SwiftKey nor Microsoft are confirming a figure. Read More... →

When the world learned yesterday that keyboard developer Swiftkey is being acquired by Microsoft for $250 million — about 10 times what it raised from investors — it seemed just another success in a string for Index Ventures, the global venture firm with offices in San Francisco, London, and Geneva. Indeed, the now 20-year-old venture firm has had a very good run of things,… Read More... →