Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Стали известны новые подробности о сделке Microsoft и LinkedIn. Оказывается, социальная сеть была куплена на $5 млрд дороже, чем планировалось изначально.... →

New-market disruption is a rare phenomenon and usually comes in waves in conjunction with some form of dramatic technological advance. Many disruptive companies (both new and existing) created new markets in periods following the introduction of PCs (Apple, Microsoft), mobile phones (Apple, Samsung) and cloud computing (Facebook, Airbnb). And this is what we are seeing in the enterprise… Read More... →

A new SEC filing posted Friday gives more clarity about what led up to Microsoft acquiring LinkedIn for over $26 billion. And they prove that Microsoft wasn’t the only prospective buyer. It shows that the talks between LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella began on February 16 of this year, just 12 days after the earnings debacle where LinkedIn shares plummeted. And… Read More... →

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Earlier this month, IBM and Cisco announced they would work together to integrate IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology into edge routers from Cisco, and today the two IT giants are deepening their partnership again, as they aim for a bigger piece of the enterprise collaboration market being chased by the likes of fast-growing upstarts like Slack, large incumbents like… Read More... →

TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s London Demo Day on June 30th from 7:30-10:00am PT, 3:30-6pm GMT. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scaling to global markets. There are seven accelerators located around the world, from… Read More... →

Box announced Box Shuttle today, a new service that combines software and consulting to help customers move large — as in millions or even hundreds of millions — of legacy files to the Box service. Previously, companies with files stored in network file shares or legacy content management systems like Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum or OpenText were on their own when it came… Read More... →

TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s Berlin Demo Day on June 29th starting at 9:15am PST,  6:15pm CEST. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scaling to global markets. There are seven accelerators located around the world, from… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update will launch on August 2. This is one of the biggest Windows 10 updates yet and will include new features for both consumers and enterprises. As Microsoft also announced today, Windows 10 now runs on 350 million devices and users have spent 135 billion hours using it so far. That’s up from the 300 million devices running… Read More... →

В июле 2016 года несколько компаний, в том числе Microsoft и финансовая организация ING Bank, представили оригинальный портрет в стиле Рембрандта. На работу ушло два года — экспертам пришлось проанализировать 346 картин художника. Специалисты распечатали изображение на 3D-принтере для сохранения текстуры картины, написанной на холсте маслом. Представители департамента стратегических технологий «Microsoft Россия» подготовили для vc.ru рассказ о проекте с комментариями тех, кто в нем участвовал.... →

MongoDB, the company behind the eponymous open source database, is launching Atlas today, its third major revenue-generating service. Atlas is MongoDB’s database-as-a-service offering that provides users with a managed database service. The service will offer pay-as-you-go pricing and will initially allow users to deploy on Amazon Web Services (AWS), with support for Microsoft Azure… Read More... →

Backblaze is still best known for its backup service, but the company has also set its sight on the fast-growing cloud storage market. While the company can’t compete with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google when it comes to the overall feature set of its nascent cloud platform, Backblaze decided to significantly undercut its competitors pricing when it first announced its B2… Read More... →

Жительница Калифорнии выиграла суд против Microsoft после того, как ее компьютер самопроизвольно пытался обновиться до Windows 10.... →

Twitter is in trouble. In a move out of a middle school flag-football game, Microsoft selected LinkedIn to join its team. The sheer size of the transaction has reignited conversations about who will be picked next to join the super special circle of public mega-cap tech companies. Vultures have been circling Twitter for well over a year, but the company has defied all experts who have… Read More... →

It’s been over a year and a half since Microsoft first announced the open source .NET Core project, which aims to bring the core parts of Microsoft’s .NET framework (and it’s cousing, the web-focused ASP.NET Core) to Linux, OS X and other operating systems that the company didn’t previously support. As Microsoft announced today, .NET Core and ASP.NET Core have now… Read More... →

Жительница Калифорнии Тери Голдштейн (Teri Goldstein) отсудила у Microsoft $10 тысяч за неудачную автоматическую установку Windows 10. Компания отозвала свою апелляцию на решение суда в пользу клиента, пишет The Guardian.... →

Директор по инновациям компании Game Insight Андрей Иващенцев подготовил для рубрики «Рынок игр» описание функций шлема Microsoft HoloLens, рассказал об опыте его использования и разнице между виртуальной и смешанной реальностью.... →

Руководство Microsoft объявило о запуске инициативы, призванной помочь представителям бизнеса обеспечить максимально полную защиту пользовательских данных, которые передаются между серверами и различными устройствами. Новый инструмент Azure Information Protection создан на основе технологий платформы Azure Rights Management и недавно приобретённого интернет-корпорацией израильского стартапа Secure Islands. Функционал станет доступен разработчикам в ближайшие месяцы. «В мире, где персональная […]... →

Michelle Obama joins snapchat, BET Play is a new streaming service from Viacom, You can now scan documents in the dropbox app to your dropbox account, Microsoft has new data protection tools, and youtuber Mark Rober built a giant nerf gun. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s Bangalore Demo Day today, Wednesday June 22nd starting at 11:35pm PT. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scaling to global markets. There are seven accelerators located around the world,… Read More... →