Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

GUEST: Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open consumer PC ecosystem. Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox at Microsoft, responding on Twitter, said, “UWP is a fully open ecosystem, available to every developer, […]... →

GUEST: Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft and the current owner of the L.A. Clippers, has a lot to say about Microsoft — especially about the Microsoft Azure cloud business. In an interview with Bloomberg, he argued that since the company was betting big on the cloud, it should report revenues and profits […]... →

Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today, although the company still isn’t ready to share when the operating system will be available for older devices. The latest build includes improvements to the Phone app, Outlook, and Calendar. Like the last mobile build, this one is only available for devices that shipped with Windows […]... →

Microsoft spends a lot of time and money developing many technologies that could end up being part of the company’s next products. For instance, the company has many researchers working on artificial intelligence, which powers real-time speech translation with Skype Translator. But one area stands out for Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft […]... →

A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it announced that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though. Until then, the company’s database focus remains squarely on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2016, which is currently available as a release candidate and which will become generally… Read More... →

Salesforce today announced the availability of SalesforceIQ Inbox for Outlook, an add-in for the Microsoft Outlook web-based email service that integrates with Salesforce’s Sales Cloud customer-relationship management (CRM) software and adds smart features such as automated responses. The introduction of the feature follows Salesforce’s launch of a SalesforceIQ Chrome extension for Gmail. And today’s launch […]... →

Salesforce announced today that its SalesforceIQ intelligence product now integrates with Microsoft Outlook, which happens to be the most used business email program on the planet with over 400 million users on Outlook.com alone. The product being released today is called SalesforceIQ Inbox for Outlook. It’s a bit of a mouthful, but the point is that it takes that existing Inbox product… Read More... →

Грантовый комитет «Сколково» одобрил минигрант в размере 5 млн рублей компании Lexy, которая занимается созданием «интеллектуального домашнего собеседника». Деньги будут направлены на усовершенствования программы, которая понимает запросы человека, в частности, на разработку решения на базе массива микрофонов по локализации источников звука и формированию диаграммы направленности. Это необходимо для распознавания человеческой речи на расстоянии до пяти метров в шумных условиях. По словам сооснователя и гене... →

During Microsoft’s Surface event back in October 2015, the company also announced that Facebook is building universal Windows 10 apps for Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Today, screenshots and a video of the third app have leaked courtesy of WindowsBlogItalia. One of the reasons why I prefer Facebook Messenger over WhatsApp is the desktop experience. […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it will be cutting support for Android, iOS, Windows Store, and Windows Phone app in the Application Insights tool for its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Application Insights, which offers analytics on performance and usage, will stop accepting new apps for those platforms on April 15, and on June 15, […]... →

Xbox Live has had a lot of problems in the first few months of 2016, and fans are starting to get fed up. This finally prompted one of Microsoft’s most consumer-facing personalities to address those concerns. Earlier this week, fans on the Xbox One forum on the community site Reddit started a thread asking if Microsoft […]... →

Вслед за анонсированной смертью проекта с российскими корнями Skype Qik, разработчик откажется от малоизвестной телевизионной версии мессенджера.... →

Microsoft today announced that the new version of its Dynamics AX cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for business management is now available to all companies. The service, which runs on top of Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure, includes the Power BI business-intelligence service that enables businesses to get visual answers to the questions they’re wrestling […]... →

Skype, the Microsoft-owned video calling service, has quietly announced that it will no longer offer an app for smart TVs from June. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation — the open source group that’s probably best known for its Eclipse IDE, but which also offers a number of other developer tools. With this, Microsoft is joining other Eclipse sponsors like Google, Novell, IBM, Debeka, and Oracle. Given that Microsoft offers its own IDE in the form of Visual Studio, today’s… Read More... →

Seoul-based Polaris Office is launching its cloud-based software suite in the United States with the very ambitious goal (some might say quixotic) of challenging Microsoft Office and Google for Work’s dominance. The company makes desktop and mobile apps that let users create new documents and edit existing ones stored on services including Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that its Skype Translator — a tool that automatically translates your speech into text and computer-generated speech in the other person’s language in real time — now supports Arabic. So Skype Translator now speaks a total of eight languages — in addition to Arabic, it also speaks English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, […]... →

Microsoft’s Skype introduced launched its real-time translation feature out of beta about half a year ago and today it is adding Arabic — and more specifically, Modern Standard Arabic — as its eighth supported language. As the Skype team told a small group of reporters at a press event in its Palo Alto offices last month, the company decided to add Arabic in part because… Read More... →

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SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, is now available on Linux in the form of an early private preview, with a full launch planned for mid-2017. Until now, SQL Server was strictly a Windows product, but as Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive vice president of its cloud and enterprise group, writes today, the company has decided that it’s time to… Read More... →