Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

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... →

With the Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality headset, the Redmond-based firm is trying to get developers excited about its potential as early as possible, opening a HoloLens experience section in the company’s new 5th Avenue retail store in Manhattan. The HoloLens isn’t the same as virtual reality platforms like Oculus or the Samsung Gear VR. Instead, the HoloLens projects… Read More... →

Издание Business Insider попросило представителей зарубежной ИТ-индустрии рассказать о том, какие приложения они держат на первом экране своего смартфона и почему. В подборку попали основатель Product Hunt Райан Гувер, генеральный директор Microsoft Сатья Наделла и другие.Редакция vc.ru выбрала несколько интересных моментов из материала.... →

Last month, Microsoft rolled out the first major Windows 10 update for PCs and tablets. Today, the company is detailing one of the security improvements included within: Microsoft SmartScreen can now block drive-by attacks. Microsoft SmartScreen is a security filter that is leveraged by a few of the company’s products, including Internet Explorer and Edge. […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it’s finally providing unlimited storage to people who pay for the OneDrive for Business cloud file sharing service. This fulfills a promise that Microsoft made last year. Once known as SkyDrive Pro, OneDrive for Business unlimited storage will be provided to customers of specific product SKUs: Office 365 Enterprise E3, E4, […]... →

Microsoft today announced the release of a new Windows 10 preview for PCs for people in the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. There aren’t many obvious changes in this build. But consider it a starting point — Microsoft is committing now to putting out builds more frequently starting in just a couple of […]... →

Microsoft today launched its Skype for Business app for Android out of preview. You can download the new app now directly from Google Play — Android users with Lync 2013 will be automatically updated to the Skype for Business app based on their device settings. Skype for Business arrived in April and got a dedicated […]... →

Remember Danger? The mobile maker Microsoft acquired for $500 million back in 2008 in the hopes of firing up its mobile fortunes? Things didn’t pan out quite so well for Microsoft of course, but Danger co-founder Joe Britt is doing just fine. In fact he’s uncloaking his new startup today — one he’s presumably been ploughing some of his unspent Danger money into. Read More... →

Netflix has launched a new universal app for Windows 10, as the video-streaming giant becomes the latest in a line of companies to embrace Microsoft’s new operating system. Rebuilt from the ground up, the new Netflix app replaces the existing version in the Windows Store and they’re not hugely different at first glance, but it […]... →

Textio CEO Kieran Snyder always loved taking a quantitative approach to how language worked with her studies in linguistics. And when she and her co-founder Jensen Harris were leaving Microsoft to start a new company, it was only natural that it would be centered around language in some way. That’s how Textio, a startup that analyzes text for how well words and phrases perform in… Read More... →

Microsoft has expanded its organization structure to establish a philanthropic arm dedicated towards using technology to combat some of the world’s most challenging problems. Under company Vice President Mary Snapp, the group will work on focus on how to drive greater inclusion and “empowerment of people who do not yet have access to technology and the opportunities […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it has changed the name of its broadcast-oriented polling tool from Bing Pulse to Microsoft Pulse. The rebrand is meant to reflect that the tool now integrates with several Microsoft technologies, including Power BI, OneNote, and Azure Media Services. The launch comes a year after Bing Pulse hit version 2.0 with […]... →

Yahoo объявила о своём решении перевести в разряд открытых проектов веб-краулер Anthelion, созданный для парсинга структурированных данных из HTML-страниц. «Anthelion может быть нацелен на сканирование конкретных страниц. К примеру, содержащих микроразметку для фильмов», - пояснил представитель компании в анонсе на Tumblr. В прошлом году во время конференции в Шанхае сотрудники Yahoo Labs раскрыли некоторые детали по Anthelion в статье. «Мы – первые, кто представил идею краулера, основной задачей которог... →

Microsoft today announced a new private preview of the Custom Recognition Intelligence Service (CRIS), a highly customizable tool that can give applications Siri-like speech-to-text functionality. Also today, Microsoft is opening up public previews for two sets of application programming interfaces (APIs) that offer developers technology that can understand who’s talking in audio recordings and what […]... →

Российский фонд Titanium Investments повторно инвестировал в израильский стартап Cloudyn, который разработал сервис мониторинга облачной инфраструктуры. Объём раунда составил $11 млн. Возглавил сделку Carmel Ventures, текущими инвесторы RDseed и Titanium Investments также приняли участие. Всего компания привлекла $16,5 млн. Средства пойдут на расширение в другие регионы. В 2016 году компания планирует открыть офис в США. В сентябре Cloudyn привлек $4 млн в рамках инвестиционного раунда серии А. Раунд возгла... →

Cloudyn, a startup with a cloud service that shows how much money you’re spending on cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has taken on an $11 million round of funding. In addition to offering granular information on how much your infrastructure deployment costs on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine, Cloudyn […]... →