Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

Augmented reality could change the way humans interface with everything. And Microsoft knows that, for Americans, football is everything. The Windows company released a promotional video today that reveals its vision for how the HoloLens AR head-mounted display might expand the way people enjoy content like professional football. The Super Bowl is Sunday in Silicon Valley, and […]... →

Microsoft is understood to be acquiring London-based Swiftkey, the startup which employed artificial intelligence to create a ground-breaking predictive smartphone keyboard, according to sources. The Financial Times is reporting that the deal is “around $250m”. TechCrunch understands the figure is just under that amount. The companies are understood to have been in talks for a… Read More... →

Microsoft has acquired SwiftKey, a company that built an intuitive keyboard for iOS and Android (but not Windows Phone) devices, according to a new report today. Microsoft paid around $250 million to do the deal and is set to announce it later this week, the Financial Times said. SwiftKey announced a $17.5 million funding round […]... →

Watching sports could soon be a very different experience — at least if it’s up to Microsoft and the NFL. Before you know it, a holographic player could be charging through your walls and replays could play in 3D on your coffee table. Microsoft today released a new concept for its HoloLens augmented reality goggles that shows off its vision for what the combination of sports and… Read More... →

Get ready for Yammer, Microsoft announced today – and it’s not kidding. Microsoft said this afternoon it will begin to activate Yammer for all its eligible Office 365 business customers starting today, in what’s a major push for the enterprise social networking service. The rollout will come in waves, beginning with those customers who have a business subscription, and… Read More... →

Microsoft today is announcing that its Yammer enterprise social network will now be turned on by default for all eligible commercial customers of Office 365 suite of services. Until this point, Office 365 administrators had to set up Yammer in order to allow employees to use the service. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion in […]... →

Mobile collaboration app Zula, co-founded by noted investor Jeff Pulver in 2013, won the Audience award at TC Disrupt a few years ago, and a seed round From Microsoft Ventures. From there things didn’t quite pan out, and now the company has pivoted into a new product that aims to “make podcasting accessible to the masses.” ZCast claims to allow anyone to produce a high… Read More... →

Valve updated its Hardware & Software Survey today for January, revealing that more than one in every three gamers on Steam is now using Windows 10. The latest and greatest from Microsoft may have just passed 11 percent market share, but on Steam the adoption rate is already at 34 percent. In its first month, […]... →

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Microsoft has begun to encourage people running Windows 7 and 8.1 users to install Windows 10 as a “Recommended Update” in the Windows Update application. A few months ago Microsoft said that it would start to do this “early” in 2016, and now it’s happening. “As we shared in late October on the Windows Blog, […]... →

Ubisoft isn’t done testing its upcoming online shooter, according to a leak from one of Microsoft’s social-media accounts. Xbox One will get an open beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division starting February 16, according to official Xbox Italy Facebook page (as first caught by Eurogamer). The test will allegedly run through February 21. Unlike the […]... →

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Six months after its release, Windows 10 has finally passed 10 percent market share. Not only that, but the latest and greatest version from Microsoft has also overtaken Windows 8.1 and Windows XP, according to the latest figures from Net Applications. Windows 10 was installed on over 75 million PCs in its first four weeks, […]... →

Microsoft today unveiled Project Natick, a fascinating research initiative that could bring cloud computing infrastructure closer to big cities near large bodies of water — by putting data centers underwater. Microsoft isn’t running any Web services, like Office 365, through data center infrastructure inside of these capsules. But Microsoft did build one (named Leona Philpot, […]... →

Microsoft and developer Iron Galaxy are keeping the teases coming for the new season of downloadable content for Killer Instinct. It looks like the Halo character Arbiter is coming to Microsoft’s free-to-play fighting game. Developer Iron Galaxy teased the power-sword wielding character during the Killer Instinct World Cup tournament that is happening right now in San […]... →

Former Cisco executive Padmasree Warrior is resigning from cloud file syncing and sharing service Box’s board of directors, effective on Sunday, January 31, according to a regulatory filing the company posted today. She joined the board in March 2014. The news comes just less than two months after Warrior was elected to Microsoft’s board of […]... →

Apple втайне сформировала большую команду специалистов в области виртуальной и дополненной реальности для создания устройства, которое может стать конкурентом Oculus Rift или Microsoft Hololens. Об этом сообщает Financial Times со ссылкой на источники, знакомые с ситуацией.... →

Microsoft announced its Q2 2016 results yesterday, reporting strong performance for its cloud business and leading to a stock bump in the wake of the news. Its Surface tablet hardware business also performed well. However it’s an entirely different story for the unloved phone-making business — that albatross around Satya Nadella’s neck… Read More... →

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Google AdWords объявил о прекращении поддержки всех версий браузера Internet Explorer, кроме актуальной – IE 11. «Начиная с 7 марта 2016 года, AdWords будет поддерживать только Explorer 11. Если для доступа к сервису вы используете IE 10, мы советуем вам обновить его до последней версии или перейти на другой поддерживаемый браузер», - сообщается в Google+. Изменение призвано обеспечить пользователям сервиса наилучший опыт. Со списком всех поддерживаемых браузеров можно ознакомиться по ссылке. Напомним, ... →