Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Microsoft’s Surface team is working on a new premium smartphone, which will be ready in the second half of 2016. And it might be the pure Surface phone many have hoped for. So says a new report from Windows Central, citing unnamed sources. The sources say that the Surface group has dropped plans for an […]... →

Microsoft has put out a TV commercial for the holidays. In it, some things happen…mostly singing. There are employees, kids and other things going on in a New York City Setting. Apple’s back yard on 5th Ave, to be specific. My colleague Alex and I hopped into Slack, watched it together and shared our thoughts. We think that Microsoft is trying to say that they’re friends, or… Read More... →

Microsoft today announced the launch of a new website called Share Your Idea, where people can go to post and vote on brainstorms about what would be cool to see on the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality system. So far the site is desperately in need of contributions, with just 22 submitted so far, including “Virtual […]... →

When Microsoft has a technology it likes, it loves to bring it to all of its platforms and services. Right now, its Cortana personal assistant is clearly one of these technologies. Microsoft today announced that Cortana is coming to more desktops in the enterprise. The company is integrating the service into Power BI, its business intelligence tool that, it’s worth noting, already had… Read More... →

Microsoft выпустила рекламный ролик, в котором сотрудники производителя ПО и молодежный хор стоят на Пятой авеню в Нью-Йорке и поют песню Let There be Peace on Earth. В один момент из магазина Apple выходят работники бренда, и сотрудники разных компаний обнимаются.... →

Microsoft уволила 30 сотрудников проекта очков виртуальной реальности Hololens, которые работали в израильском подразделении компании, ещё 30 человек были переведены внутри организации. Об этом сообщает Business Insider, ссылаясь на местное издание Ynet.... →

Microsoft has yet to ship its first HoloLens holographic imaging device, but it is moving swiftly on to the next generation of development nonetheless. TechCrunch has confirmed that Microsoft has dismissed 60 people in Israel who work on the HoloLens — 30 full-time staff and 30 contractors. The plan is to wind down work on its VR headset and platform in the country and shift… Read More... →

The newly formed Hewlett Packard Enterprise now has some hardware to back up its recently announced partnership with Microsoft around cloud. The side of the old HP that was focused on enterprise IT and is now a standalone company will now sell a product called the HPE Hyper-Converged 250 for Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard. […]... →

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Microsoft today announced the release of Dynamics CRM 2016, the latest version of its customer relationship management software (CRM). Available both as a cloud service and on-premises software, Dynamics CRM 2016 comes with features Microsoft has picked up through its acquisition of two companies, FieldOne, a provider of software for managing the activity of service […]... →

Microsoft has partnered with Autodesk to make its HoloLens device more useful in the way that we design products. The Redmond, Wash.-based company has built-in support for Autodesk’s Fusion 360 within its augmented reality headset to provide designers an innovative way to build 2D and 3D objects. “When we first saw HoloLens, we immediately sensed the […]... →

Microsoft today released new Skype for Business voice and meetings capabilities in Office 365. The new features include Skype Meeting Broadcast, PSTN Conferencing, and Cloud PBX with PSTN Calling. Microsoft launched Skype for Business in April, and began upgrading customers using the Lync 2013 client and the Lync Online service. A month earlier, however, the […]... →

Microsoft today is announcing the launch of PowerApps, a new piece of software that people can use to build and share applications that connect with their companies’ existing databases and cloud services — without writing code. The experience is designed to resemble a Microsoft Office application like Word or Excel. You click, drag, and type […]... →

Microsoft today launched PoweApps into preview. PowerApps is a new Office-like service that makes it easy for virtually any employee in a company to build basic mobile and web-based business apps — and for IT departments to enable them to do so. Read More... →

Бета-версия виртуального помощника Cortana для iOS уже доступна для загрузки и установки. Об этом компания Microsoft уведомила часть пользователей, которые зарегистрировались для участия в её тестировании. Поскольку сообщение получили не все тестеры, вероятно, оно будет проводиться в несколько этапов. Бета-версия приложения предлагает функционал голосового ассистента, помощь в управлении расписанием, напоминания и оповещения, а также возможность отслеживать посылки, стоимость акций, авиабилетов и другие оп... →

Bill Gates and a group of elite private investors — including Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, among others — on Monday announced the launch of Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Gates says the new multi-billion dollar clean energy research and development initiative “will […]... →

The founders of Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to solve climate change. Mark Zuckerberg announced today that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have launched the Breakthrough Energy Coalition with Bill Gates to invest in zero-carbon energy technology around the world. The organization’s membership roster includes some of the most prolific names in technology, including Richard… Read More... →

Microsoft has now made good on its earlier promise that it would soon roll out a beta version of its Cortana personal assistant – a rival to Apple’s Siri and Google Now – to users of iOS devices. This week, a handful of testers who signed up to trial the new app were notified by way of email that the iOS version of Cortana was available for download. The beta version of… Read More... →

В редакцию vc.ru написал читатель — он заинтересовался, каким образом устроена работа в российских и зарубежных ИТ-компаниях: могут ли сотрудники работать из дома, самостоятельно выбирать офис для работы и как руководство отслеживает их эффективность, когда работников находится вне офиса. Своим подходом к работе с редакцией поделились представители Mail.Ru Group, Yota, «Связного», Microsoft, Aviasales, социальной сети «Одноклассники», платформы для разработчиков Stack Overflow, мобильного стартапа Truecalle... →

Корпорация запустила сервис, который определит "крутость" усов... →