Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

In a keynote presentation at Computex in Taipei and a couple blog posts today, Microsoft doubled down on the mixed reality efforts spearheaded by Hololens – Windows 10, the company aims to show, is place to be when it comes to mixed reality. Read More... →

Xiaomi is moving closer to launching its smartphones in the U.S. market. Today the Chinese company announced a partnership with Microsoft that includes a cross-license and patent transfer agreement and the pre-installation of Skype and Microsoft Office products on Xiaomi devices. Read More... →

Posted by LoganRayEvery SEO knows 301 redirects are necessary from time to time. But are they affecting your other optimization efforts by slowing down page load time? Or are they sending bots on a wild goose chase? How many 301s are out there that you don’t need anymore?Before I jump into this list, let me take you back to where this started: I was in a development meeting for one of our clients. This meeting had nothing to do with SEO. But, as usual, the discussion quickly sparked a few SEO considerations... →

Microsoft just dropped the price of its gaming console. The Xbox One now costs $299 in the U.S. with a 500GB hard drive, or €299 in Europe. For $319, you get a 1TB hard drive. And bundles also get a $50 price cut. Interestingly, this news comes right before E3. Microsoft is set to announce a new, slimmer Xbox One. Rumor has it Read More... →

Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube, Microsoft as well as the European Commission unveiled a new code of conduct to remove hate speech in less than 24 hours across these social media platforms. The EU has ramped up efforts leading to this code of conduct following the recent terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris. Read More... →

Marketo, the marketing software giant that went public in 2013, is being taken private again: PE firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired the company for $1.79 billion in an all-cash deal. The news ends weeks of speculation in which people guessed that Marketo would be snapped up by strategics like Microsoft (who is a big partner of Marketo) or SAP. In the end, it’s a PE firm, thereby… Read More... →

As Google moves ahead to develop its Area 120 in-house incubator program, Microsoft is also looking to get more of its startup ducks in a row. On Monday, the company quietly, officially unveiled Microsoft Ventures — a new arm that will focus on “Series A and beyond” investments in North America and Israel, with the first investments to be revealed in the coming weeks. If… Read More... →

TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s Machine Learning Demo Day this Thursday, June 2 from the Showbox SoDo in Seattle. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive 3 to 6-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... →

Российская визуальная SaaS-платформа для автоматизации процесса разработки и развертывания серверных приложений Last.Backend вышла на китайский рынок. Локализацию проекта выполнила компания i-Free China (китайское подразделение i-Free, одного из акционеров стартапа). Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Стартап является партнером Microsoft. Интегрирован с чатами Slack и HipChat. Работает с DigitalOcean, MS Azure и AWS. Last.Backend также получил правительственный грант программы по привлечению учёных и пред... →

Партнёр венчурного фонда Andreessen Horowitz и бывший руководитель подразделения Windows в корпорации Microsoft Стивен Синофски опубликовал в своём блоге на Medium заметку о том, как развитие технологий влияет на отрасль и делает провальные проекты прошлого успешными сейчас. По словам Синофски, разработчикам не стоит зацикливаться на неудачах прошлого — в том, что их идею не поняли 15 лет назад, зато оценили сейчас, сыграло роль появление новых технологий и изменение культурного контекста.Редакция vc.ru пуб... →

Chatbots have been in the news a lot this year. First there was Tay, Microsoft’s racist love child, who just couldn’t keep herself under control. Then came Facebook with its messenger bots, which, by most accounts, didn’t start well. And now there’s news coming from Viv, which at first glance seems like Siri 2.0. Not surprisingly, it was built by the founder of Siri. Read More... →

Компании Microsoft и Facebook объявили о прокладке подводного трансатлантического кабеля. Они надеются, что это позволит повысить скорость и качество услуг по всему миру.... →

Компания Microsoft запретит использование простых и популярных паролей в своих службах.... →

Snapchat raises 1.8 billion dollars, Microsoft and Facebook team up to build a trans-atlantic cable, Peter Thiel is trying to cripple Gawker, Reddit launches their own photo uploader, and Treat is an on demand Vet service. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Here is some news you don’t read every day: Microsoft and Facebook today announced that they are teaming up to build a subsea cable across the Atlantic that will connect Virginia Beach, Virginia, with Bilbao, Spain. The companies say the so-called MAREA cable will allow them to “meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services… Read More... →

The American Civil Liberties Union wants to help Microsoft challenge government gag orders that prevent it from telling its customers when it receives warrants for their information. Microsoft sued the Justice Department in April, claiming that the government’s demands for silence were unconstitutional. The company said that Outlook.com and Office365 were the products most often… Read More... →

Microsoft is playing catch up when it comes to console sales. But it looks like the company doesn’t want to give up on dedicated gaming consoles. According to multiple reports, Microsoft is about to announce a new, slimmer Xbox One around E3 in June, and a more powerful Xbox One next year. In April 2016, FCC filings showed that Microsoft was Read More... →

Компания посоветовала прохожим не носить тяжелое, чтобы избежать искривления позвоночника... →

Корпорация так и не смогла доиться успеха на рынке смартфонов... →

Microsoft lays off 1,850 people, Slack hits 3 million monthly users, Boom makes your music sound like its in surround sound, Xiaomi unveils their drone and Pokemon Go launches into Beta all this on Crunch Report. Read More... →