Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its 501(k) approval to Reflexion Health for its Vera system. What makes this so noteworthy is that the company is using Microsoft’s Kinect sensor to aid in physical therapy. “We are thrilled to be one of a growing number of digital medicine companies to […]... →

Microsoft today is unveiling a redesign of its Bing app for the iPhone for people in the U.S. The new version puts local attractions front and center in a prominent Near Me section, and deep links into content in other apps provide users with a richer experience. Like the old app, you can use your […]... →

In addition to all the Visual Studio news announced at its Connect(); 2015 event, Microsoft today also launched Microsoft Graph, which gives applications access to digital work and digital life data across the Microsoft cloud. Put another way, developers can now leverage data, intelligence, and APIs with a single authorization token. If this sounds familiar, […]... →

Microsoft today announced a large number of updates to its developer and DevOps tools and services at its Connect conference in New York. These range for a new free program for developers who are just getting started, all the way to a new subscription service, a marketplace for extensions, updates to .NET, and the renaming of Visual Studio Online. This is the first major dev tools update… Read More... →

Microsoft today unleashed a torrent of news at its Connect(); 2015 developer event in New York City. The company open-sourced Visual Studio Code, launched a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, pushed out .NET Core 5 and ASP.NET 5 release candidates, unveiled Visual Studio cloud subscriptions, debuted the Visual Studio Marketplace, and a lot more. […]... →

Microsoft is livestreaming its big developer event today and tomorrow in New York City: the very nerdy-named Connect(); 2015. If you’re not in NYC on November 18 or November 19, don’t worry, you can watch it right here. Mitra Azizirad, Microsoft’s general manager of developer platform and sales, promised VentureBeat that the event would cement […]... →

Satya Nadella came to Washington, DC this morning, and delivered The Microsoft State of Security address, laying out Microsoft’s security vision and all of the tools and technologies that entails. Speaking at the Microsoft Government Cloud Forum, he articulated the company vision. Key to this was not only finding ways to secure the key elements of the Microsoft ecosystem —… Read More... →

Microsoft has laid out plans to bolster enterprise security and help its customers “evolve their security” for what it calls the “mobile-first, cloud-first world.” Talking at the Microsoft Government Cloud Forum in Washington, D.C., today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “new approach” to security, while addressing many facets of the problem it and other […]... →

Hootsuite has further integrated its social media management platform with Microsoft’s suite of products. Starting today, data will be shared between Hootsuite and Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, and Yammer. The expectation is that team members will not longer have access to this data in a silo, but can make use of real-time conversations to enhance […]... →

Microsoft wants to pique the curiosity of future-gazing sci-fi fans with a new book of short stories inspired by the company’s early-stage research work. Available as an e-book for Kindle, Kobo, iBooks, among other popular e-reading platforms, “Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Stories Inspired by Microsoft” is a compendium of stories covering machine learning, quantum […]... →

ANALYSIS: News broke today that Rdio is effectively shutting down: The 5-year-old company is filing for bankruptcy and competitor Pandora is swooping in to buy “key assets” for $75 million. It’s a sad day, but anyone who has been watching the online music market knows that it was inevitable. Indeed, Rdio never disclosed user numbers, and […]... →

In a stunner today, Microsoft Corporate VP Bob Stutz reportedly stepped down from his job running Microsoft Dynamics CRM. MSDynamicsWorld broke the story, but R Ray Wang, who is principal at Constellation Research confirms that Stutz texted him this afternoon with the news. The memo went out today at 4 pm and Jujhar Singh, who has been a key player on the team, will be taking over for Stutz. Read More... →

If voice-based assistants are to become the primary way we interact with our devices now and in the future, then Google has just upped the ante in the battle between its own voice search functionality and that of rival mobile assistants like Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana. While Google’s app has historically done a better job at understanding its users and answering… Read More... →

Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to bring affordable Internet access to underserved parts of the globe with the launch of a new fund that will invest in companies that are solving problems associated with bringing the Internet to the 4 billion people worldwide who are still disconnected. The fund will aid in entrepreneurial efforts focused on last-mile access technologies, cloud-based… Read More... →

Microsoft has announced a partnership with Code.org that will see Minecraft arrive on the education agenda. Mojang, the Sweden-based game development studio that shot to prominence due to its work on Minecraft, was acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion last year. Founded in 2013, Code.org is a non-profit organization that seeks to encourage computer science […]... →

Компания Яндекс сообщила о появлении в веб-версии Яндекс.Диска редактора документов. Теперь пользователи могут изменять сохраненный на Диске документ или создать новый: текстовый файл, таблицу или презентацию. Никаких дополнительных программ не требуется - редактор работает прямо в браузере. Редактор включает в себя три приложения: Word Online, Excel Online и PowerPoint Online из облачного офисного пакета Microsoft. Все правки, которые пользователь вносит в документ, автоматически записываются на Диск, и д... →

Американцы подключили свои редактора для работы с офисными документами двум главным кнопкам Рунета. Русский "МойОфис" Яндекс и Mail.ru не заинтересовал.... →

«Яндекс» договорился об использовании продуктов Microsoft Office в качестве редактора документов в своём сервисе хранения файлов «Яндекс.Диск», сообщили vc.ru в компании. В этот же день Mail.Ru Group объявила об интеграции сервисов Microsoft Office в свою почту и хранилище «Облако Mail.ru».... →

Microsoft has launched a new fund for startups and other commercial entities to help bring affordable Internet access to “underserved markets.” The new Affordable Access Initiative is open to any commercial company (i.e. not non-profits) with two or more full-time employees that already has a “working solution.” Microsoft said the solution(s) must: Leverage low-cost forms […]... →

GUEST: As anyone in Silicon Valley knows, engineering jobs are in high demand, but we’re going through a serious skills shortage. K-12 classroom technology education hasn’t kept up with the demand for qualified engineers, programmers and designers. Code.org, a consortium of big tech firms including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, last month made its case for reform […]... →