Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

На месячных графиках суммарная доля ОС Microsoft упала ниже Android еще в ноябре.... →

We’re hearing a lot of chatter that Foursquare is in the process of raising a new fundraising round that will be a down round. The exact dollar value of what the company is raising, as well as the exact valuation of the round, couldn’t be learned but either way the company is looking at another haircut to its valuation. One source tells us that Microsoft, which participated in… Read More... →

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Cortana for Android and iOS in the U.S. and China. Not even two weeks later though, and the company has disabled the digital assistant’s hands-free feature on Android. “Hey Cortana” allows users to open Cortana and give her commands just by saying those two words. The feature is similar to […]... →

Microsoft is buying Talko, the mobile messaging startup founded by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect until 2010. The company says today the acquisition, whose terms were not disclosed, involves the Talko technology and the team. Talko employees will now join Skype, while Talko itself is being shut down. Ozzie, however, will not be rejoining Microsoft as a part of… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired technology from Talko, a startup that build a mobile-friendly team communication app. Talko will be shutting down in the next several months, according to a note on the startup’s website, and “Today we’re announcing that Talko’s been acquired by Microsoft to help fuel future innovation in Skype and […]... →

Обозреватель vc.ru изучила истории основателей Github, Youtube, Twitter, GoPro, Microsoft, и вспомнила неудачные проекты, которыми они занимались до того, как создали известные компании.... →

Обозреватель vc.ru изучил историю развития и конкуренции самых популярных браузеров: как появился первый браузер Netscape, ставший затем основой для Mozilla Firefox, как представители Opera и Mozilla подавали в суд на Microsoft и как Google Chrome добился лидерства на рынке.... →

Windows Phone fans and fanboys have a tough job. They have to stand by an operating system with a new name every few years, significantly fewer apps than the competition, and a distant third place spot in the market. The latest news out of Microsoft isn’t making their lives any easier. This week, Microsoft failed […]... →

Goldman Sachs признал ошибочным прогноз 2013 года, когда рекомендовал продавать акции Microsoft. Инвестиционный банк повысил рейтинг акций компании с пункта «продать» до «нейтрального» уровня. С 4 ноября 2013 года котировки акций Microsoft выросли на 83%.... →

Microsoft announced today that it has purchased Metanautix, a big-data focused startup that came out of stealth in 2014. The company was backed by $7 million in capital, including cash from well-known venture firm Sequoia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to TechCrunch’s prior coverage of Metanautix, the company’s external funding came in majority at the time of… Read More... →

Microsoft today updated the web version of its email client in Office 365, Outlook on the web (formerly Outlook Web App), with address book improvements and flight events in your calendar. The former focuses on learning who you send emails to and helping you avoid mistakes while the latter automatically adds flights to your calendar […]... →

Microsoft has acquired a young Palo Alto startup called Metanautix, a firm specializing in helping large enterprises filter through their hordes of in-house data. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed Co-founded in 2012 by Theo Vassilakis and Toli Lerios, who had previously worked at Google and Facebook respectively, Metanautix launched in September last year […]... →

Разработчик программного обеспечения Scirra установил в Лондоне рекламный щит, изображение на котором нарисовал сооснователь компании Том Гуллен за 15 минут с помощью Microsoft Paint. Таким образом бренд продвигает свой конструктор двухмерных игр Construct 2 для начинающих игровых разработчиков.... →

Топ-менеджеры Google, Microsoft и Foursquare поделились главными экранами своих телефонов... →

Спортивный агент Джери Магуайер из одноименного фильма после увольнения за критику начальства решает создать свою фирму. Правда, у него всего лишь один клиент – спортсмен Род Тидуэлл, от которого зависит существование всей компании. Но, несмотря на возникающие трудности, Джери продолжает верить и в свои силы, и в Рода. Пусть это и кино, но история Магуайера отлично показывает, что даже когда от тебя почти все отвернулись, не стоит сдаваться – иногда единственный клиент может спасти бизнес. Firrma подготовил... →

Two quick hits from the world of Microsoft before you head off and plunge your upper body in eggnog: A new Windows 10 Mobile build is out for users on both the Fast and Slow rings of the Insider program, and, if you are a regular Windows Phone user running 8.1, you won’t get new code until the new year, a retread of prior timing promises. In sequence, I think. Out today is the… Read More... →

Microsoft Translator, the iOS and Android app which enables people speaking different languages to hold a smartphone-assisted conversation, has been updated to include two-device conversation support for those platforms’ respective smartwatches. Users can now speak into, and read text on, their Apple Watch or Android Wear device, while their companion does the same on the […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it will now ship Windows 10 phones, such as the Lumia 950, with Office Mobile apps preinstalled. The announcement gives phones Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Skype for Business, according to a blog post today from Office corporate vice president Kirk Koenigsbauer. The phones of course feature Windows 10 features […]... →

Remember Microsoft’s Silverlight Flash competitor? Few people probably do (and Microsoft has long given up on it), but for the longest time, you needed Silverlight to watch Netflix in your Firefox browser on Windows. Starting today, however, you can watch Netflix in Firefox on Windows without having to install any plugins. For now, this is only true for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows users… Read More... →

Microsoft has a new app out called ‘Microsoft Apps‘ on Android that contains a list of its Android apps that you can download on the Android app store. There are two parts to this development. The first is that Microsoft’s cross-platform work continues, and that the company has yet to let up an inch on its work to bring its software and services to users on every… Read More... →